Back again for another week in review.
First off, I hammered down another 8500 or so words last week. I had hoped to be around 37K by the end of the weekend, but I'm at 32.5K this morning and I don't see me cranking 4500 words out today. Still, pretty happy with the progress.
Tomorrow, I will finally let the cat out of the bag about what I'm working on. I think it's old enough now it can survive being public. Risky for me at this stage, but I hate not talking about it.
For fishing news, see yesterday's Fishing Report. (I'm actually writing this Saturday night, because I might go fishing again in the morning.)
I didn't read anything this past week because my head was all up in my WIP.
Part of my time was wrapped up in Hubs' car. It has some kind of weird battery drain on the new battery we put into it in January. We took it to the shop - they can't find anything wrong with the alternator, there's no weird shorts or grounds or whatever. They said it had to be the battery. He took the battery back to the store. They ran a check on it and they couldn't find anything wrong either. So, we're letting the car sit. Next time he tries to start it and the battery is dead, we're yanking that puppy out, taking it there in my car, and I'm going to pitch a hissy. He will have a new battery by the time I walk out and we will not be paying for it. (I told Hubs to tell them they DID NOT want his wife coming down there. LOL)
Another big part of the week was raking leaves. Whoof. I swear there are more leaves this year... then Hubs laughs at me. Well, there could be more leaves this year. But he's probably right that it just feels like there are more leaves.
So, what was up in your worlds last week?
Oh, and before I forget... god, I'm so bad at marketing sometimes... Blood Flow will be on sale Monday through Wednesday. You know, the political thriller on sale for Election Day and all that. It'll be 99cents for the duration of the Kindle Countdown Deal. Not sure of the exact start and stop times - check your local listings.
Showing posts with label Bloodflow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bloodflow. Show all posts
Sunday, November 6, 2016
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Release Day!
Well, it finally happened. BloodFlow is out in the world now. And you can get a copy of your very own. My copy hit my Kindle this morning. (Yes, I buy a copy of my own books.) So pretty.
If you've been following along all these years, you may remember this one as Nanotechnology. I started it in 2007. Spent the next two years off and on writing a first draft. Spent the next few years shoving it into a corner because I was afraid to edit it. It was such a behemoth with so many plot twists and turns and I wanted it to be perfect but I wasn't sure how to make it so.
I finally knuckled down, deleted a bunch of stuff, made it tighter - better, stronger, faster - and sent it through the editing process. My editor calls it a political thriller. She's probably right. After all, she knows it as well as I do, but from the outside, so she's more objective. I like to think of it as Vince Flynn meets Michael Crichton meets Tess Gerritsen inside my head and we all have a party. Woohoo.
So, without further ado, I give you BloodFlow:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon CA
Amazon AU
Createspace
If you're elsewhere in the world, it's available through whichever Amazon site you use. Check there for price and availability. If I read/wrote other languages, I'd be able to help you, but I'm English-only - as are my books.
Oh, and it's available for the Kindle Unlimited program. If you're a subscriber, you get to read it without any additional cost to you. Yay.
If you've been following along all these years, you may remember this one as Nanotechnology. I started it in 2007. Spent the next two years off and on writing a first draft. Spent the next few years shoving it into a corner because I was afraid to edit it. It was such a behemoth with so many plot twists and turns and I wanted it to be perfect but I wasn't sure how to make it so.
I finally knuckled down, deleted a bunch of stuff, made it tighter - better, stronger, faster - and sent it through the editing process. My editor calls it a political thriller. She's probably right. After all, she knows it as well as I do, but from the outside, so she's more objective. I like to think of it as Vince Flynn meets Michael Crichton meets Tess Gerritsen inside my head and we all have a party. Woohoo.
So, without further ado, I give you BloodFlow:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon CA
Amazon AU
Createspace
If you're elsewhere in the world, it's available through whichever Amazon site you use. Check there for price and availability. If I read/wrote other languages, I'd be able to help you, but I'm English-only - as are my books.
Oh, and it's available for the Kindle Unlimited program. If you're a subscriber, you get to read it without any additional cost to you. Yay.
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Sunday Update - Week 21
Yeah, yeah, it's Memorial Day Weekend. :yawn: I got stuff to do. I don't have time to take a three day weekend. Hell, weekends around here are pretty-much meaningless anyway. I work all week and take time off when I want to. In fact, if I'm lucky and the weather ever stops dumping water on us, I'm going fishing midweek this week. I have some new artificial crawdads I want to try and I bought a package of something called GULP. This kind looks like minnows and is supposed to 'smell' yummy to fish.
Anyway, that's for the week ahead. Stepping into the wayback machine courtesy of Mr. Peabody and Sherman (the real ones - not the CGI of today), here's what happened last week:
Accidental Death launched! It didn't have the minor explosion out of the gate that Dying Embers did, but it had a bigger explosion Friday, so I'm happy. I so want this book to do well. (I want them all to do well, but this one is closer to home for me.) I've already sold more this month than the first month Dying Embers was out there in the world. Yay. And I discovered last night that the paperback is now available through Amazon, so I got that going for me.
Wish in One Hand is with the editor for a first pass. I don't expect this one to be that in need of editing - since several people helped me edit it before I sent it to Baen - but we'll see what she has to say. And the cover artist - Howard David Johnson - is working on that for me. His other work is amazing and beautiful, and I have great hopes for this cover. I expect to launch this in August - good lord willin' and the creek don't rise. For anyone who has been following along, this book was previously known as Djinnocide, and for those that haven't, it's a paranormal suspense with genies.
I'm also working on editing Bloodflow for a fall launch. I started playing with cover ideas yesterday. Man, iStock is expensive. $33 for 3 images. Now I have to decide which three are exactly what I need so I don't waste money playing around. Bloodflow is a political / techno suspense set in Washington, D.C. and has some delicious intrigue, vicious plots, and dead bodies (natch).
Tomorrow, keep an eye out at Ereader News Today. My ad for Dying Embers is due to go up.
In other news, I found a three-legged, three-toed box turtle in the yard. Little girl was marching diligently down the hill, totally unafraid of me or anything else. She didn't even close up when I lifted her off the ground. She hissed a little and then stared at me. Her missing leg is an old injury and she's so over it. I set her down and off she went.
The wildflower seeds I scattered in the cedar garden last year, that brought me lots of lovely blooms, has come back this year - despite my planting a forsythia smack in the middle and loads of marigolds around. I have no idea what these plants are, but they're lovely. Plus, last year's marigolds reseeded themselves, so I'll have those blooming all summer.
Oh, and finally, last night I got the writing bug. Whew. After however long not writing new words, it was like a damn broke. I got a glimmer of an idea, sat down at the keyboard, and churned out 1700 words lickety-split. I so want to tell y'all about the story, but I don't want to jinx it. And man, let me tell ya, yesterday I was so restless I couldn't hardly stand myself. Then I wrote and all was well. Sometimes you just gotta let the words out or they start to drive ya nuts. Just sayin'.
What's happening in your world lately?
Anyway, that's for the week ahead. Stepping into the wayback machine courtesy of Mr. Peabody and Sherman (the real ones - not the CGI of today), here's what happened last week:
Accidental Death launched! It didn't have the minor explosion out of the gate that Dying Embers did, but it had a bigger explosion Friday, so I'm happy. I so want this book to do well. (I want them all to do well, but this one is closer to home for me.) I've already sold more this month than the first month Dying Embers was out there in the world. Yay. And I discovered last night that the paperback is now available through Amazon, so I got that going for me.
Wish in One Hand is with the editor for a first pass. I don't expect this one to be that in need of editing - since several people helped me edit it before I sent it to Baen - but we'll see what she has to say. And the cover artist - Howard David Johnson - is working on that for me. His other work is amazing and beautiful, and I have great hopes for this cover. I expect to launch this in August - good lord willin' and the creek don't rise. For anyone who has been following along, this book was previously known as Djinnocide, and for those that haven't, it's a paranormal suspense with genies.
I'm also working on editing Bloodflow for a fall launch. I started playing with cover ideas yesterday. Man, iStock is expensive. $33 for 3 images. Now I have to decide which three are exactly what I need so I don't waste money playing around. Bloodflow is a political / techno suspense set in Washington, D.C. and has some delicious intrigue, vicious plots, and dead bodies (natch).
Tomorrow, keep an eye out at Ereader News Today. My ad for Dying Embers is due to go up.
In other news, I found a three-legged, three-toed box turtle in the yard. Little girl was marching diligently down the hill, totally unafraid of me or anything else. She didn't even close up when I lifted her off the ground. She hissed a little and then stared at me. Her missing leg is an old injury and she's so over it. I set her down and off she went.
The wildflower seeds I scattered in the cedar garden last year, that brought me lots of lovely blooms, has come back this year - despite my planting a forsythia smack in the middle and loads of marigolds around. I have no idea what these plants are, but they're lovely. Plus, last year's marigolds reseeded themselves, so I'll have those blooming all summer.
Oh, and finally, last night I got the writing bug. Whew. After however long not writing new words, it was like a damn broke. I got a glimmer of an idea, sat down at the keyboard, and churned out 1700 words lickety-split. I so want to tell y'all about the story, but I don't want to jinx it. And man, let me tell ya, yesterday I was so restless I couldn't hardly stand myself. Then I wrote and all was well. Sometimes you just gotta let the words out or they start to drive ya nuts. Just sayin'.
What's happening in your world lately?
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