Book 1 rough draft complete.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Thanks MiRai, it means a lot hearing that. It has been pretty interesting. I'm still living off of my severance pay that I got from Dell when I was laid off in January of 2010. I kinda half joked with my old colleagues that I was going to be come a writer and look at me now. Three books later and an ambitious project in the works for 2013.

Not having debt is a life changer. If I ever had one piece of advice to give anyone its not to have debt. Pay off you car, pay off your home, don't use credit cards. You can do anything you want in this world as long as you're not a slave to debt.

[Daeri]

I'm getting a new cover for book one as well so they all match.

Nice! My copy of the first book will soon become a collector's edition. then

Glad to learn the 3rd book is coming, keep up the good work!

[Owltoid]

SB - are you now able to live off the proceeds? Very inspiring!

[Starbuck_Jones]

Owltoid- Not quite yet but I am close, but only because my monthly expenses are low. No car payments, no mortgage/rent, no credit card bills. One thing about book sales, they have specific trends throughout the year. December and January you will see more books sold than any other time of the year. Middle of the summer like July and August, you will be lucky to sell 1/10 of that. So you need to learn how to budget surplus months for the deficit months. This having been an election year played havoc with sales, but December seems to be making up for that already.

Right now I work as a property manager for a resort.

[Palee]

Owltoid- Not quite yet but I am close, but only because my monthly expenses are low. No car payments, no mortgage/rent, no credit card bills. One thing about book sales, they have specific trends throughout the year. December and January you will see more books sold than any other time of the year. Middle of the summer like July and August, you will be lucky to sell 1/10 of that. So you need to learn how to budget surplus months for the deficit months. This having been an election year played havoc with sales, but December seems to be making up for that already.

Right now I work as a property manager for a resort.

Nice man! I like how you're taking your destiny in your own hands!

[Starbuck_Jones]

Here it is. I have a couple of months left in the select program with Amazon. When that is done, I will be releasing the trilogy to other retailers like Barnes and Noble as well as Apple and others. Now it's time to go watch some Dr. Who Christmas special now that everything has finally settled down.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ATCKJ1Y

[F9thRet]

I can't believe I missed this. Def. on my to buy list after the first.

Grats on this also Starbuck.

Stephen

[Starbuck_Jones]

New cover for the first book. Now that they are all a matched set by the same artist, I am pretty excited with it. It will take a day for the e-book to get propagated through the catalogs and the paperback with the new cover and interior will take a couple of weeks.

[Starbuck_Jones]

I've been working on the prequel to my Eternal Gateway Trilogy called The War of Antiquities. It's a 22 episode short story series that delves into the back story of the main villain Therion as well as Kail Falconcrest's parents. Duke and Catherine. Where the Gateway trilogy is more of an steampunk action adventure sci/fantasy, Antiquities is more drama/romance in a victorian steampunk fantasy setting.

I have the first eight episodes complete and they are currently being edited while I continue forward with the rest of the series. I plan to release each episode one week apart with a four week break between bundles/books to allow for data analysis. Book one is going to consist of episodes 1-6 and is scheduled to start being released mid March. Book two (episodes 7-11) if the data looks good will launch ten weeks after so start of June time frame and so on.

Due to the serial nature of this project, they will only be available as e-books until the series is complete. I currently only plan to do one print version at the end in a combined volume. Also one of the reasons I am posting this update is to ask for the communities help. I am starting a Kickstarter project for The War of Antiquities to help cover the large upfront costs like cover art and a new batch of ISBN numbers. For those of you who use social media like Twitter or Facebook, if you could please share the link to my project, it would really help spread the word. Thank you.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...ities-book-one

[Starbuck_Jones]

Casts scroll of resurrection on thread.

Looks like I neglected this thread with my current series. Episode eight of my new series went live on Amazon today. Episodes nine, ten and eleven are also complete and are being rolled out during the holidays. They will also show up at Barnes and Noble as pre-order pretty soon as well. Being able to have a pre-order option is pretty new so I am excited to see how that works out.

Episode eleven marks the half way point as well. Right now they are only available as e-books but once the series is complete there will be a combined print version. Amazon also has a new purchase option called Matchbook. Basically it lets anyone who has purchased a print edition pick up the e-book version for free. This is retroactive as well so if someone bought a print version of my book a long time ago, they can still grab the e-book for free today.

Here is glimpse of the raw cover art for The War of Antiquities.
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