frozen dreams – Page 15

Today was a day where I wished I wasn’t a mutant.

Oh, yeah, I used to say that about myself when I was a kid, and first noticed that most people typically read at a fraction of the speed that I could, and can. ‘Mutant’ sounded cool, right? It wasn’t a flashy superpower, but God knows it saved my butt enough times, so what the heck.

And so it begins: FROZEN DREAMS e-book has been sent to backers.

E-books, really: I’ve prepared FROZEN DREAMS for Kindle, Epub, and PDF. If you backed, you should be getting them in your inbox this morning. If there are problems with the books or the delivery, let me know. If you didn’t get them because you didn’t back the Kickstarter, you can still rectify that in Backerkit.

The wallpaper and map for FROZEN DREAMS is distributed.

This is a test of the system; if there are no problems with the distribution (there are always problems with the distribution), tomorrow I send out the books. Note:

If you have not completed your survey yet, please do it today so that I can see how that affects the system. I think that it will automatically send you your digital downloads, once it’s been locked, but I’m not sure.
If you have not hit up the pre-order store yet and was planning to, please do it today for the same reasons. I fully recognize that this looks like a sneaky way to get more pre-orders, but that’s actually only a beneficial side-effect of the process.

I don’t think that there are going to be very many hiccups; but if there are, let me know. This is the first time I’m doing this from this side of the Backerkit, too.

06/05/2020 Book Report, FROZEN DREAMS.

Oh, this day. Power failure, bizarre software design architecture, over-complicated procedures, and absolutely not enough sleep last night.

BUT! The .mobi and .epub versions of FROZEN DREAMS are both tentatively at the stage where I could release them to my Kickstarter backers. I’ve started the locking of existing pledges, and I’m going to test the system by releasing the wallpaper first. Assuming nothing bad happens, the rest will follow. And then I can get the book up on Amazon and B&N proper, with print version to follow.

…Fascinating.

06/04/2020 Book Report, FROZEN DREA… FILL OUT YOUR SURVEYS.

I got, like, 13 people who haven’t. If you haven’t, fill ’em out. Check your email, if you haven’t yet. At this point I’m about ready to guess.

Feel free to pre-order from the store, too.

This Backerkit pre-order post got interrupted by my kid’s computer sparking.

Didn’t get to the level of an actual electrical fire, but I had to yank everything in a hurry and get the tower on the porch. Guess I no longer need worry about whether to put a new video card in there, huh? Did have to order a new computer, though. Yay.

In absolutely unrelated news: I have a Backerkit pre-order store for FROZEN DREAMS!

Gah, this morning.

06/02/2020 Non-Book Report, FROZEN DREAMS.

Not much happened today, honestly. I needed some distractions, so I went and got them. I am trying to figure out one thing, though: am I going to need an advertising budget? And if so, how much?

I will be locking the existing orders for FROZEN DREAMS on Friday.

Title says it all, really. The sooner I lock down existing orders, the sooner I can start releasing rewards. That’s going to include the Kindle/Nook/PDF book, mind you. Also: once the book is live on Kindle I can get started on proofing it for print.

You should still be able to pre-order via Backerkit, but in case you can’t: link. And, if you haven’t filled out your survey yet… FILL OUT YOUR SURVEY.

05/31/2020 Book Report, FROZEN DREAMS.

I put more finishing touches on the book. What’s keeping me from publishing? Mostly my wife doing one last look-see and me doing the Special Thanks section. Which means, by the way: FILL OUT YOUR SURVEYS, IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY.

In other news, got more feedback on the short stories – and I got the character sketches first drafts for the worldbook back from Ben Fleuter! He’s going to use the sample characters to populate the cover art, and he’s enthusiastic about that part of the project. As am I: I feel it’s gonna absolutely pop.

05/30/2020 Book Report, FROZEN DREAMS.

Welp. At some point in the process, you have to slam back the shot of whiskey and say That’s all the goram rogue em-dashes we’re gonna find. We have reached that point in the book’s journey. It’s back from the editor, and as soon as EVERYBODY SENDS THEIR SURVEYS IN I can start in with getting the list together for the Special Thanks. There’s just not that much left at this point.

Well, for the book. The audiobook and RPG worldbook are both later-stage projects. But the book (and the physical copy) are still coming along. But a big milestone’s been passed here.