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.
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.
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.
Episode 33 Foiled Again should go live soon on KDP. I apologize for how late in the month I got it uploaded. As soon as the purchase link is live, I will apply it to the Season 3 landing page.
Season 4 may not, in fact probably won’t, go as regularly as Season 3. I still haven’t finished drafting all the episodes. The main reason for this is that I am no longer allowed to have my MS composition books with me on the line at work. I did most of my writing over the years during slow times in production. Given that my current department covers a large physical area, with only 10-minute breaks between rotations, writing during breaks simply isn’t possible. Making writing time at home is difficult, what with daily duties and squeezing in publishing and editing.
Meanwhile, here is the cover for the September episode.
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.
I have reorganized the pages for The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe under the Books and Short Stories heading on the menu. I’m currently working on the cover for this month’s episode, 26 Truth and Consequences, which will be uploaded to KDP next week.
I’m a bit behind on maintaining this site this year. About a week after Chattacon I had a head cold. I refuse to say it was con crud, because I didn’t witness anyone with symptoms at the con. Nor did this set in immediately after. I most likely caught it at work.
Anyway, due to the lack of good sleep this caused, plus the book hangover of publishing the season 2 omnibus and the first season 3 episode of The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe so close together. I had a hard time getting my publisher/author mind to focus on what next. When I realized I still haven’t added a purchase link for said episode (The Canary Has Flown) I also realized I really need to reorganize the Books and Short Stories pages.
I plan to change the page for TAoPaW to a series parent page and give each season its own page. Otherwise, readers will be scrolling excessively to find the most recent episode. I may do something similar for the Waves of Darkness books, as well.
I am going to start creating the cover for the next episode, Truth and Consequences this weekend. I have also gotten a head start on the season 3 omnibus, Diamond of the Mind, putting all the episodes together in one document. I still have to place some of the bonus material. Line art of the episode covers, which didn’t exist in a proper format for the 2nd season, is making a comeback for season 3 and will be added during final formatting.
I need to replace the cover on Amazon for Turmoil in Tunilia. Found a glaring typo on the back blurb, plus I want a better name placement on the front. The current placement looks to asymmetrical for my taste. Amateurish: which can hurt sales.
I intend to start on formatting and final edits on Black Venom this weekend. I actually finished the previous round of edits and revisions at the doctor’s office the day before Chattacon started.
Speaking of conventions, ConNooga is just around the corner. While I didn’t see the sign-up form for the writing/literary track in time to secure a hallway table spot and a full programming schedule, I did manage to get on a couple of panels: one Friday and one Sunday that weekend. The convention is at the Chattanooga Convention Center, February 17-19. If you don’t catch one of my panels or see me wandering the con, I’ll probably be hanging out with Con Mommy at the info desk. That’s where I’ll park my book bag while visiting the dealer hall. I don’t have a dealer badge, therefore I will NOT be pushing my books in there. I like this con and don’t want to get banned.
In other housekeeping news. Maybe I’ll get finished taking down the Christmas tree. It’s been up since 2021.
Finally, for those of you who haven’t seen it on my other social media, I did my very first drawing of Hezekiah Grimm. I’m surprised I haven’t drawn him before, considering he’s one of the characters who have been in my head since 2006. I’m still not satisfied with the portrayal. He needs to look more weathered, given how long he’s been at sea.
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