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 I tried to get them to correct this, but I was told I’d have to unpublished the book and republish with the correct ISBN.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.
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.
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’m not really sure. So much seems in flux at the moment.
The final episode for this season of The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe: Episode 36 The Fall of Tunilia is live on KDP. Check the page for Season 3 for the purchase link.
I’ve finished formatting the season 3 omnibus, Pathway to Downfall, but I still have to do the cover design. Needless to say, I seriously doubt I’ll have copies available until Con Nooga in February. Amazon does not do speedy delivery on book orders, and Chattacon comes early this January.
Season 4 is going to be released one episode every other month. I only have half the season drafted, and I still need to type and edit what is written so far. I’m also debating removing the few early episodes from Kindle Unlimited so I can release all the episodes on Smashwords/D2D as well as KDP. At only 99-cents each, that won’t hurt my royalties (nonexistent, mind you) from Amazon.
I need to update my ad images for my annual Take a Pirate Home for Christmas campaign. I’ll also be enrolling in the Smashwords End of Year Sale again. Think I’ll go with the 75% discount this time, which will make all my Waves of Darkness ebooks there available for 99-cents! That sale starts December 15th and runs through the 31st.
Remember, at Smashwords, you can find files to work with just about any type of eReader you use.
Meanwhile, I need to see about getting a new washer. It started leaking while filling this weekend. Not good.
I’m also unsure of what I’ll be doing at my day job for the last 2 weeks before Christmas. That is a bit annoying.
This beauty is coming out November 14th! I’ve uploaded it to Ingram Spark for print and to KDP, Smashwords, and Google Books for ebook.
I need to remember to upload it and Demon Bayou: Waves of Darkness Book 4 to GOATreads. I’ve been slack on that because I have yet to see sales through that platform.
Silent Fathoms: Waves of Darkness Book 3 will be temporarily unavailable in print. I will be unpublishing it on Ingram Spark and then republishing it there. They never corrected the ISBN on it, and that’s been bugging me for a year now. I will announce when the print version goes live again. This won’t have any effect on the availability of the ebook.
I will start working on the cover for this month’s episode of The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe soon. I hope I can actually finish getting season 4 written in time to edit and maintain a monthly release schedule. I also have to get the omnibus formatted for print.
Meanwhile, I’ve been making notes of plot points and scenes for the Daughters of the Dragon arc, which will conclude Waves of Darkness. It just keeps getting darker and darker.
Hell’s Dodo: Waves of Darkness Book 5 is now in the formatting stage. It will be released in early November. I don’t have a clear idea of what I want for the cover yet, but I’m getting there. Once the paperback file is formatted, I can get with my cover designer, Fatima.
Now to start kicking my own butt to get back to maintaining this site. Next up is updating the Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe landing page. There’s a new episode out and another coming soon.
Interesting thing about this promo pic: it got the attention of several book reviewers on Instagram. Problem is, they’re all wanting to be paid for reviews. Sorry, but that is against my personal ethos. You want to be paid to review books; get a job at a publication that features book reviews. You want to be paid to READ books; become an editor, proofreader, or slush pile reader. Paid-for reviews are viewed as extremely suspicious by most of the authors and publishers I personally know and interact with.
LibertyCon is coming up soon. I will update the Appearances page this weekend with my schedule. For those who have tickets, I look forward to seeing you there. For any wanting to go but without tickets, unfortunately, the convention has been sold out since last summer.
In somewhat unrelated news: I recently watched a pleasantly bittersweet movie on Netflix called Living. It stars Bill Nighy. For those of you who are fans of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern books, his face was chosen by the people who commissioned me to create the face card illustrations for Antiquarian Boardgames’s Dragon Poker companion game to their Pern LARP as representing Masterharper Robinton. By the way, Mr. Nighy has a very pleasant tenor singing voice.
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