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Confession Time

Dungeon Deposed will go up for sale on the first.

It's currently with the editor.

Right now I should be doing a project with Blaise, but he just finished Nora and is recovering.

... so I started writing a new book... and we're already 42,000 words in (33% of the normal length).

I...

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Beta Readers

First wave went out.

Second wave going out tomorrow night if there's no response.

Beta file is already up for first wavers. :)

Already started in on the next book while I wait.

Writing must always occur. O_O

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For the inner-circle crew.

Hey everyone.

As you're my inner-circle, and I do tend to overshare at times with you...

We're nowhere near done with SSoSH3, but I did get the cover finished.

Don't go spreading this around now, otherwise we'll have to be more circumspect with what we share to the IC.

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February 2018- Update

 

February!

A time of... February.

We've finished Dungeon Deposed. It'll be going out to all the beta readers by the end of this week.

After that, it's a trip down to the editor, and up for sale March 1st.

No idea on the narrator yet, i'm going to put it up to ACX and ...

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Dungeon Deposed: Beta Readers

Hey everyone.

Dungeon Deposed is set. As soon as the Patron counter clears for Feb, we'll do our Beta reader pull.

Beta reader slots will be drawn off-screen to those who are a confirmed patron at the start of the next month. This is the fairest way I could think of to make sure that o...

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Artwork: New Banner and badge

Hey there everyone.

As many noticed, the banner changed. :D

New artwork you can use as you like for personal reasons as well. The two suggested things I've gotten from facebook already was forum sigs/icons, and one insane person said they were going to get it tatted.

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Dungeon Deposed- Cover/Beta Readers/Release

We'll be finishing up Dungeon Deposed this month.

Beta reading will start first week of Feb.
Beta reader invites will go out to the Patron list shortly after the month closes.
Beta reading will last 1 week to 2 weeks. Unsure yet.

Release date should be end of Feb.

Audiobook as ...

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Twitch - Removing the Milestone-

Hey folks,

Something went down in Twitch that had an end result I wasn't quite happy with.


To the degree that I hit a point of no return with the platform.

I'm afraid i'm going to be deleting the twitch milestone entirely, never broadcasting again, and changing the goal to...

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Give away-(Scheduled): 1/7/18

We'll do the drawing on Sunday during the broadcast. I have the list of Patrons for Dec. The brackets are as follows:

Entry Level
Lieutenant
Inner-Circle
Above-And-Beyond(those who did more than $10)

We'll pull one name from each group, then i'll contact them by email to ask w...

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Give away- Update!

We'll be waiting another day or so for patron payments to clear, then we'll take the list of all patrons, and do the drawing.

Good luck to everyone in advance!

Related Post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/1604897...

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January: 2018 Onward!

 

Alright.

So, 2017 was a pretty great year.

Time to start up a new one I guess.

Super Sales 3 should be in December of this year. This is a fairly rough estimation, but it seems pretty doable right now.

Wild Wastes 3 will be 3 months before that.
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Milestone Reached

Well crap.

Ya'll went and did it. Milestone hit.

I guess that means I'll start live streaming my writing starting this week.

First day will end up testing and figuring out if there's anything I need to change setup wise.

I blame Jacob Shaffer who put us over the edge.

W...

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Dungeon Deposed. Chapters incoming

Did some solid writing, chapters incoming. :) 

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Give away time

Give away? Give away.

I don't believe in signing books. It's just not in me.

Except for a random give away or for people who work with me. Artists, narrators, etc, etc.

So, let's do a give away!

For those of you in the continental united states, we're going to do a drawin...

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Super Sales 2: Audiobook

 

Good evening everyone.

My apologies for being somewhat mum on the whole Audiobook issue.

It's with a heavy heart that I have to inform everyone that Jeff isn't going to be working on Super Sales 2 or 3.

At this time, we're simply going in two different directions professio...

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Writing - Chapter Breaks

So, one of the more common complaints is people complaining about sudden jumps in the story.

Personally, I've always assumed when there's a line of dead space between paragraphs, than the time, location, or scene has changed. That is from a childhood of reading in the 80's, but I begin to won...

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(DD) Chapter 6 - Deals with Devils -

  

Chapter 6 - Deals with Devils -

Ryker watched quietly as Rob led a group of raw recruits into the dungeon. He didn’t even think for a moment he’d get a chance to kill him, but he’d still wanted to make sure of that.

“Ryker,” Wynne said quietly. “You can’t wat...

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(DD) Chapter 5 - Getting the Horns -

  

With the Royal Guard confirming the dungeon was real, and in reality, something they could utilize easily, things were progressing. Half their number rode back to the city to hire carpenters to build their garrison. The remaining half began setting up where they wanted said garrison a...

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Super Sales 2

Evening.

Thank you to everyone who was part and parcel to getting book 2 out for Super Sales.

If you don't mind, go out and post, share to your FB groups, talk about, and review the new book. Providing you like it, at least. :)

You can pick it up here(Keep in mind it just went live. S...

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(DD) Chapter 4 - Opening Moves -

  

Ryker spent the next day purchasing more humanoids that would fit his vision for a dungeon. This time he bought a number of Hobs to act as caretakers for the inn.

As well as a single farm animal of every type, which was quickly fed to the dungeon.

For the dungeon he picked...

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(DD) Chapter 3 - Unexpected Guests-

  

Ryker looked up from the counter in the entry way he was polishing.

It’d been a busy three days.

Day one had been spent in town. There had been a number of things to do and chores to take care of.

Like getting his original land grant paperwork copied . One copy, wh...

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(DD) Chapter 2 -Setting Up-

  

Ryker’s spells had been more then enough to get them started.

Wynne had provided technical knowledge of the core that allowed him to tweak and modify the spells for better efficiency and control.

They sat there in that basement for hours, planning out the dungeon that wa...

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(DD) Chapter 1 -The Plan-

  

Thoughts sprang from the void. They filled the crystal with consciousness.

“Where… where am I? What’s going on?” said the crystal. “I was just-”

The voice was cut off as Ryker cut the soul free of the crystal. It floated off immediately and vanished, heading to...

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Dec New Book- New Chapters: Here we go

Alright folks.

New book, new chapters incoming.

I'll be posting 4 to the inner circle tonight to get initial feedback.

If everything still lines up, we're a go :D

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Book Completed: Super Sales 2

Phew. Done.

Beta readers read, 2nd pass complete, everything.

Super Sales on Super Heroes 2 is finished.

Editor just needs to do their thing, than it's off to the Amazon store.

I'm taking a week off. bLeGh.

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Super Sales, is off to the editor

Book is en route to the editor. Here's hoping it comes back soon. Beta is over.

Some beta reader stats because people asked, and why I'm always mildly concerned about beta readers.

The book was divided into three pieces and people were required to notate each file to move to the next.

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The Next Book.

After consulting with the Inner-Circle, the next book we'll be working on is a Dungeon LitRPG story.

It's a new series.

We'll be posting chapters for this once Super Sales 2 goes live.

After that... probably Wild Wastes 3, then Super Sales 3.

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Second Beta Reader Recruitment Email

7 people declined or didn't respond to the first beta reader email.

A second email has gone out with new winners.


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Direction! A new book

Well folks. With Super Sales 2 wrapping up, it's time to consider our direction.

I have 2 books at the 33% marker.

A dungeon litrpg novel, and an anti-hero novel about a sociopath in a video game world.

I was thinking of finishing one of those up, moving to Wild Wastes 3, then Super S...

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Super Sales 2: Cover Draft

Here's an early draft of the cover. Nowhere near done, but definitely coming along.

I'd appreciate this image stays here and isn't posted around the web. :)

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