Housekeeping and Other Chores

I freshened up all the landing pages for the Waves of Darkness books. The new cover and publication date is on the page for Blood Curse. My new logo for the series is the featured image on all the book pages for the series. I set deadlines for release dates for each of the books, as well. I also made the layout of the text uniform.

Another bit of site housekeeping was to change the word shaman to medicine man in Viktor’s character description. No, he is not one. His maternal grandfather was. The reason for this change was that it is the accepted term for such a person. I was recently informed that no Native American peoples practiced shamanism. Rather, shamans are part of European culture. No disrespect was intended by my original error.

The other chores I mentioned were to actually put some information on the About page for my YouTube channel, and to start an Instagram account.

I’m still debating whether to start a Twitter account.

BLOOD CURSE 2nd Edition coming November 2nd 2021

Publication date is confirmed!

Learning the ins and outs of going with wide distribution in self-publishing has been quite an experience. I by no means consider myself an expert on it now, but I have a better idea what to expect with the next book.

Blood Curse is the second book I’ve self-published. It is the first I’ve gone wide with, however. When I published The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: the Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe season 1, I went exclusively with KDP. I’m debating whether to stick with that for the Pigg & Woolfe series or to take it wide, as well. I probably will stick with KDP for that one, since it is an episodic serial. (Look for season 2 to start in either January or February. I am drafting season 4 currently.)

I believe I will settle on a 6 month schedule for re-release of the first 7 books in the Waves of Darkness series. Look for Demon Bayou to come out around May 3rd, 2021. I’ve already done the first round of revisions on it.

Audio book editions will be announced when I have a better idea of how I will fund the production and which service I decide to go with.

I also will be putting up a TeeSpring store in the next few weeks. Once it’s up and running, I will put a permanent link in the menu bar of this site.

I will be creating content for my dormant YouTube channel and reviving it, as well.

Busy Busy Busy

Blood Curse 2nd edition Publication Date (pending)

Pending approval speed for the manuscript and cover files at Ingram Spark, Blood Curse 2nd edition should become available for purchase as both print and ebook on November 2nd. The ebook will definitely be available at that time, since I’ll be using Smashwords as my distributor. If approved early enough, I’ll see about setting up a pre-order.

While Smashwords distributes to most ebook retailers, the Google Books version might be a little later coming out. I have to convert the file to Epub and upload directly to Google to sell through them.

The audio book will be sometime next year. I’m still debating on which platform to distribute through. (Audible is NOT the only audio book distributer out there, after all.)

Blood Curse 2nd Edition Cover Reveal!

Blood Curse officially has a new cover!

Many thanks to Fatima Saddiqa whose user name on Fiverr.com is femi_digitalist for this fantastic cover design! If you are looking for a cover artist with great rates and skills, I highly recommend her services. I will be working with her for the rest of the Waves of Darkness series.

The font I chose for the titles is Treasure Map Deadhand. The Waves of Darkness fanged pirate skull logo is my own design.