Silent Fathoms will be temporarily out of print. The eBook will still be available.
Back in 2022, when I originally uploaded the print files to Ingram Spark, I accidentally attached the eBook ISBN to the meta data. I tried to get them to correct this, but I was told I’d have to unpublished the book and republish with the correct ISBN.
I procrastinated for quite a while about this but finally decided to do it. I sent the request to their customer service last night and am awaiting their response on it as well as when best to republish.
I will update the purchase links when the print version comes available again.
Second: The Daedalus Enigma: Waves of Darkness Book 6 has been uploaded to Ingram and all my eBook distributors. Publication date is May 14th, but the eBook is available to pre-order on Amazon, Google Books, Smashwords, and Draft2Digital.
Third: The D2D purchase links have been added to all the Waves of Darkness books.
Fourth: I am removing The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe Season 1 from Kindle Unlimited. They will all be cycled out by mid-July. They will still be available on KDP.
In August, I will start adding the serial to my D2D catalog.
Fifth: I am progressing nicely on the revisions to Maelstrom of Fate: Waves of Darkness Book 7 and plan to release it in October rather than November. The reason for this is so I can have copies available at HallowCon.
That’s right, I was supposed to have two cover ready to reveal this past weekend. While I have received the cover design for The Daedalus Enigma: Waves of Darkness Book 6, I failed to finish the cover for Episode 38: Laying Low for the next installment of The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe.
Sometimes even a surprise three-day weekend isn’t enough to get everything done you want to do.
Anywho, here’s the paperback cover for The Daedalus Enigma. I’m still waiting on the .pdf of it and the files for the eBook and audiobook covers.
Once again, Fatima Sadiqqa (femi_digitalist on Fivver) is my cover designer.
As usual, I spent more than I made, and that was just on food. Plus, I have 3 new necklaces and a new tiara.
Though I thought I was only on 1 panel, I ended up being on 2. Fairytales and Fantasy, and How to Sell Your Book.
I only had a space on Author’s Alley on Sunday, filling the spot left by Patricia Gilliam. (She had to head out Saturday night.) Still, it was a successful convention for me. I sold 4 books, and for the first time, they were all The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe titles!
I also gave 1 copy of Pathway to Downfall to “Con Mommy” as I dedicated the book to her. I thought she was going to cry. She said she’d always wanted someone to dedicate a book to her, and I made her year. We’ve been convention friends for years now, and she’s a loyal reader and a genuinely nice person.
I forgot to tell her our vendor tables at HallowCon this October will be next to each other.
I failed to collect business cards in the dealer room this year, but I can get the info I need from the program app. I’m way behind, like a few conventions, on updating the Smugglers Cove and Hucksters Haven pages. I’m also behind on putting up convention albums on FB.
I learned a few new things for getting my books out there that I may try, time permitting.
Also, the Thing to Buy/Sell this year seems to be lightsabers. There were at least 3 vendors for that item alone. (Star Wars is the predominant preference in Chattanooga, but some Trek was represented.)
Con Nooga starts at noon today at the Chattanooga Convention Center. As a multifandom convention, they have something for just about everyone.
I will be on one of the Writers Track panels Saturday. You can find me somewhere near Room 16, roaming the dealer hall shopping, or hanging out with Con Mommy at the info desk.
Yeah, yeah, I’m a slug about updating the site; I’ve just been… busy.
Revisions and edits are pretty much complete on The Daedalus Enigma: Waves of Darkness Book 6. Any remaining typos will hopefully be caught in the formatting stage. I’m still pushing for a May release.
I have every intention of getting the cover art done this weekend for the first season 4 episode of The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe: Episode 37 Aftermath. The editing is already done.
If I ever release a hardcover version of Waves of Darkness, it’ll probably be an omnibus volume of the entire Sisters of Power story arc. Recently, I’ve had ideas for lovely (hopefully) black & white/greyscale illustrations to use in such a volume. What can I say? I need to learn the newer version of the PenUp app, since they want to overcomplicate brush/tool selections on it now. At least that app is still free and not Apple-centric (I’m still pissed at Adobe for their bias against Android devices).
In more Waves of Darkness news: I am expanding on the original 1st draft of Waves of Darkness Book 8: Hunting the Dragon. When I started looking back at the files, I thought my computer had eaten some of the chapters. I only found 18 chapter files plus the Once Upon a Tide… in my file library. Turns out I told the entire story in only 18 chapters. That is entirely too short.
While I still hope to release book 8 in 2025, I may have to push back the May date to later in the year.
No, I still haven’t started plotting book 9. I also haven’t finished writing season 4.
What have I learned this year? Tea blends are a BIG seller. I do not carry tea blends. One of the neighboe booths did.
I sold one copy of Blood Curse: Waves of Darkness Book 1. My only sale the whole weekend, but that made this a successful convention in my mind. Thank you for the pity purchase, Rich. I’ll take any sales I can get! I did get some interested browsers, and author cards were taken. Hopefully some audiobook and ebook sales will come out of this weekend.
I had one panel on Saturday; Homegrown: Writing from Our Roots, along with Louis Herring-Jones, Phillip K. Booker, Mel Todd, and moderated by William Joseph “Hillbilly” Roberts. It was fun to learn I wasn’t the only one who participated in bottle rocket battles in the woods as a kid. The panel was about how we use our experiences, aspects of places we grew up, and people we know or knew in our writing.
Late Saturday night featured the “Chattacon Choir,” a very hammy group-sing of Bohemian Rhapsody and Paradise by the Dashboard Lights. Both singers and audience participated in the performance while in varying states of sobriety or the lack thereof, over emoting, heckling, and pantomiming lyrics.
Think if MST3K did this live with a large group.
I finally got to hear how this tradition got started many moons ago when the convention was still held at the Chattanooga Choo Choo. The first time was a spontaneous event which spread throughout almost the entire convention. Now it is contained, for the most part, to the consuite.
I did get to talk with my second cousin, Mary Robinette Kowal (this year’s Literary Guest of Honor), before the convention ended Sunday. Took having to say which side of the family I’m from before she could finally place me. As I pointed out previously, we haven’t seen each other since we we little kids, several decades ago. We had a nice, if short visit. Both of us were getting ready to leave.
I plan on doing a table again next year, though I still have to pre-register for it.
I got some progress made with various projects while manning my table. I made a good start on writing episode 45 of The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe. I also finished my first round of edits/revisions on Maelstrom of Fate: Waves of Darkness Book 7, which I plan to release in October. I moved that up from November, because I hope to attend HallowCon this year.
I also did a new pencil sketch of Belladonna. It felt weird drawing real world again. You can’t zoom in on a screen to fine tune details with real pencil and paper like you can on a drawing app. Since the sketch involves full frontal nudity, I will not share it in this post.
I might put it on her character page. I haven’t decided yet.
I only have one panel at 4 pm Saturday. The rest of the time I will either be at my table in the Dealer Room or wandering around the convention.
I’m looking forward to meeting a second cousin I haven’t seen since a family Christmas get-together at her grandmother’s (my great aunt) when we were kids. (I’m talking late elementary to early junior high ages here.) Mary Robinette Kowal is this year’s Literary Guest of Honor.
While I do have them ordered, I will not have copies of Pathway to Downfall: The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe Season 3 available at this convention. I have yet to find a way to get Amazon to expedite delivery service on authors’ copies of books. The best they would tell me is between the 10th and 20th. I ordered them the last Tuesday in December.
I will have a full allotment of the five titles currently available in my Waves of Darkness series. My restock order from Ingram Spark is out for delivery. In fact, the UPS truck is currently at the house across the street from me as I write this.
I also have a new 4-tier book display rack! I’m finally going to look like a professional book seller.
If you’re going to be in the Chattanooga area this weekend, stop by the Doubletree Hilton and join the festivities!
I do offer this caveat. The between-the-episodes segment is strictly adult content/erotica that just happens to advance the plot of the overall story. So, NO KIDDIES PLEASE.
I hope everyone had a pleasant holiday season. I just wanted to let you know that the season 3 omnibus for The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe, Pathway to Downfall is now available on Amazon.
I would show the cover here, but WordPress isn’t giving me the option to insert media right now. I will probably have to do it from my phone or tablet. Weird. Had to sign in on this computer, too.
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