TINSEL RAIN Backerkit surveys going out soon!

We are checking off the last few things now, and the smoke test (where we send surveys to 5% of backers and see if everything works) will likely happen tomorrow. Conceivably the main surveys will be out by the end of the week.

After that? Well it’s all up to the editorial process. I will probably also need some people to take a look at the short story collection, but that’s scheduled to be really worked on in May. I’ve been making the mistake of acting like I don’t have a reasonable time scale for this stuff, and I have to stop that.

My Monday: surveys, and dust.

The dust was from moving my computer across the living room. We had the kids’ computers down here during the pandemic, to make it easier for me to do tech support. But the eldest is back at school, so we moved his computer up to his room and I moved my machine away to give my youngest some distance. The new arrangement works fine; but dear Lord, the dust. So. Much. Dust.

When I wasn’t doing that, I was working on the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter surveys. They’re almost ready to go, but I had a few questions to ask Backerkit about some red flags they have on the process. I expect to hear back from them some time around noon tomorrow, which is about when they get into the office (Pacific Time). Backerkit is very good about getting back to me with regards to tech support issues. It’s one of the major reasons I use them, in fact.

Back fully into the swing of things tomorrow, then!

Started in on the TINSEL RAIN editor’s edits.

Slightly different style, but that’s all right. It’s not too different, and I can adapt. It probably helps that TINSEL RAIN started out a little more polished than FROZEN DREAMS did, too. Although admitting that is a Catch-22: you want your books to get better, but that kind of implies that your first books… aren’t perfect.

Anyway, things are coming along.

Working on the TINSEL RAIN Backerkit!

Money’s come in, so it’s time to start constructing SKUs and setting up the Backerkit store and the rest of it. I also should be getting chapters soon, and once that happens things start to move along. We’re well on track to fulfilling TINSEL RAIN early, but if I want that to stay on track then I had better get cracking, right?

I’ll put up links when they’re ready. In the meantime, there’s my Amazon page.

Today is the LAST DAY of my TINSEL RAIN fantasy novel Kickstarter!

We’ve admittedly got a slog to get to the audiobook level, but the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter has been a marked success. It’s certainly given me some flexibility for the rest of the year.

But there’s still a day left! So sign up today to get the extra short stories stretch goal! I don’t know when these post-apocalyptic science horror stories are ever getting published, so now is the time to grab them!


Last weekend of the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter!

We’re pretty dang close – less than a hundred bucks – to the next TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter stretch goal, too! ‘Course, the next one (an audiobook version of TINSEL RAIN) is the big one. Well, the big one that I’m gonna likely hit, barring people accidentally misclicking on Brandon Sanderson’s Kickstarter and backing mine instead.

Anyway, last weekend of me nagging on this, so tell your friends! And, well, everybody else. Just make sure they pick up FROZEN DREAMS first – or, you know, pick that tier in the Kickstarter. TINSEL RAIN is a sequel, after all.

#commissionearned

An important milestone on the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter.

This was a private goal, not a public one: I broke $2,100 on the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter! This was important because of my funding realities. The very short version is that it can take more than a year’s worth of various money pools refilling before I can squeeze enough cash out to self-publish a novel. Note: this is not a complaint. I am very lucky to have those money pools. Most people do not. Many of the people who do have those pools need the money for more important things, like food and rent.

Continue reading An important milestone on the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter.

One week to go on the TINSEL RAIN Kickstarter!

We’re back in the inevitable rut, because that’s how these things go. But it’s going well! It could just be even better. So if you know anybody who hasn’t backed my new post-apocalyptic high urban fantasy pulp detective novel TINSEL RAIN, now is the time for decisive action.

Shamus Tom Vargas from FROZEN DREAMS is back! And this time he’s dealing with murdered mages, shadowy conspiracies, and a new Sidekick to train up in Cin City! He’s very excited about it all, really. If only there wasn’t a new Archmage to deal with…

I’m not really joking about TINSEL RAIN prices maybe going up, mind you.

Amazon’s cost-per-book is likely to rise, which means that book prices will rise, too. I can’t do much about it, if/when it happens. Except, you know, add a buck or so to the book price. I don’t wanna, but expenses are gonna go up across the board.