Hello from the cold and inadequately snowy Mountain West of the U.S.!
In the spirit of the season, next week I’m running a Kindle Countdown Deal on the Synchronicity ebook. It’s on sale for $0.99, reduced from the normal price of $3.99. The deal is active from December 7 through December 11, so if you’ve wanted to get into Psycons & Grace series when it’s cheap, that’s a great opportunity.
The #nerdpire online serial, which launched a few weeks ago, has enjoyed a great start – thank you, readers! We released Episode 5 this past Friday and are nearing 1,000 views and 400 visitors so far. If you’re Stephenie Meyer, those stats are chump change, but then you’d also have those horrible sparkly vampires sprinkled throughout the plot. We don’t have sparkly vampires in #nerdpire, which is why the site is located at nosparklyvampires.com. Both Asta Harridan and I hope you’ll take a quick read. It’s rollicking fun despite (because of?) the blue language.
And while I don’t celebrate NaNoWriMo, I did reach the magic 50,000 word mark on the New Novel in November. My progress stalled this week because of the day job, but I’m hoping to get back to 2-3,000 words per day on it soon. If all goes well, I should have a rough draft manuscript done in January. Then I’ll polish it several times before delivering it to my editor by (*cough* … I really shouldn’t commit to this) the end of February. New Novel has a title, but I’m not going to give that away yet. The current incarnation of the title has stuck for 3 weeks already, which means it has some staying power. If I were to use a soup analogy to describe this book – the world needs more soup analogies, of course – I’d say it’s urban fantasy with a base of George Orwell’s 1984, two cups of the movie V for Vendetta, and several tablespoons of subterranean guerrilla warfare. I think you’ll like it.
Have a happy holiday season! If you’ve taken the time to join the Band of Misfits by downloading Demergence, you’ll be hearing from me in a couple weeks in the monthly newsletter.