Just one last post about this, figured I'd let people know / remind them that there's less than 2 days left for the ATL: First Step Deluxe Edition.
We'll likely have individual copies left, though what is included (including the stretch goals) is going to...
2024-05-02 01:15:35 +0000 UTC View PostHi all.
Just quick update. I'm putting the Business Posts on hiatus for a bit. I'm ill and recovering and really busy trying to get a bunch of other projects sorted, and the amount of brain power required to do all that is taking away any time I have to do Business Posts.
I'll get back to it but expect some quiet time for a few weeks. Feel free to drop off if you're a patron or wha...
2024-04-30 15:27:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe travelers inn was a simple affair, barely more than a single story building with attached stables. There were three private rooms, one of which contained the proprietor and his family; the other two rooms meant for special guests. For the majority of the residents, they would sleep on the ground when the fires were banked for the night and the tables pushed aside. Even ths tables themselves...
2024-04-30 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTime passed quickly. Agonizingly painful in some ways, as Wu Ying struggled with the new burdens his weakened body and soul placed upon him, but also with some gratifying improvements. His sense of the wind returned in a week, allowing him to whisper requests to them once more. His control and ability to manipulate it had weakened significantly, such that he was uncertain if he could conjure up...
2024-04-26 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a very basic overview of marketing strategy and the marketing plan. Please understand, you could cover entire textbooks on this topic and I have literally written a book about marketing strategy for authors. What I'm convering is both a refresher and to orient people who might find this book out of order. I seriously recommend reading the other work first though, because I will not...
2024-04-24 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostYang Mu found him in the garden, slumped against the tree. She paused at the doorway leading out to it, drinking in the sight. Wu Ying looked thinner, wan and exhausted after the brief conversation with his martial sister. She had delayed for a few hours after breakfast, speaking with him about many things she was certain before finally taking her reluctant leave. Now, he was alone once more an...
2024-04-23 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Note: Preview chapters are rough/first drafts. These chapters have not been edited, expect that there may be errors - however, feel free to point out consistency issues!
Wu Ying woke up days later, gingerly and with great trepidation. He braced mentally for the coming pain, and it did arrive. However, it was less intense, less waves of a body dipped in burning oil and a d...
For those that don't know, I'm self-published. Quite decently well, too. I pretty much run my own tiny publishing house, but for all that, I actually don't have any issue with traditional (in this case, other publishing companies) publishing. I think there is a place for them in the ecosystem of writing, especially the big 5.
Even outside of that, there are groups that do really well in t...
2024-04-17 16:25:45 +0000 UTC View PostWhy had he rejected the winds? For Wu Ying had rejected it thrice over. Perhaps he should have realised it, long ago during that first moment when he had refused to finalise the path that he had begun walking. Five winds had the initial work that he had read been made of, five winds that had been derived from the Patriarch’s seven winds. Five mortal winds, and it had not been enough for Wu Yi...
2024-04-16 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s here!
I've always wanted to give A Thousand Li: The First Step a gorgeous deluxe edition with beautiful art, gilded edges, and premium binding.
Now on the 5-year anniversary month of the first book's release, I'm getting to create that deluxe edition to celebrate the series and the readers.
Ready to bring this project to life? Back the A Thousand Li: The First Ste...
2024-04-15 16:05:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Heads-up Patreon readers: The First Step Deluxe Collector's Edition will have an extremely limited early bird discount tier, so mark your calendars for April 15th at 12pm ET to snag your copy!
2024-04-12 18:13:19 +0000 UTC View PostElder Yang Fa Yuan moved carefully, feeling the immense strength of the formation and the searing heat of the flame she wielded in her hand. To utilize all this, she had to place her spiritual sense and aura in the center, guide the flow through her and around; wielding it all with the gentlest of touches. To do what needed to be done, to utilize the Soul Severing and Purifying Flame Formation ...
2024-04-12 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostChaotic Apéritifs book 2 of the Hidden Dishes series is now available as an e-book download.
Download your copy here - https://BookHip.com/NKTJAHQ
Don't miss out on the bonus epilogue - https://BookHip.com/WDFKZFL
2024-04-10 17:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostI was intending to continue my series of posts about backlist management, and I swear, I'll get it done at some point; but this came into my inbox recently and I had to read it.
ShuSH writes a series of posts about the Canadian book market, and they did an analysis of the recent market data
Yang Mu watched as Tou He came back down the stairs, joining the group in the cultivation room that they had set aside for the procedure. He eyed the formation flags, though she knew he had only cursory understanding of the skillset. It was not an area of expertise for the laidback monk. Sometimes, she wondered how he had managed to climb this high, for while he was a dedicated cultivator; she ...
2024-04-09 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The A Thousand Li: The First Step Deluxe Collector's Edition launches in one week on Kickstarter.
I'm revealing the cover art one piece at a time publicly, but I wanted to give you all an exclusive first look at the complete cover!
Follow the project now to be notified at launch: 2024-04-08 20:29:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Decades have passed since Long Wu Ying became a cultivator of the Verdant Green Waters sect. He has his calamaities and boons, rising with...
2024-04-05 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThere is no precise and generally agreed upon definition of a backlist. I've seen multiple attempts, from 'books older than a year', to 'every book but the most recent one' to 'anything over 3 months old'.
Key word here is 'old'. In the end, the focus is all about previous books.
I like the definition of anything that isn't your latest b...
2024-04-03 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt took the combined might of the surviving Nascent Soul cultivators, the altered and empowered spiritual instruments and the aid of the Core Formation cultivators to stem the oncoming disaster long enough for immortal aid to arrive. Dragons who had ridden the winds and clouds above had returned upon sensing the impending doom, utilizing their own gifts to shunt the explosion of chi to shunt th...
2024-04-02 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post**Author Note: Preview chapters are rough/first drafts. These chapters have not been edited, expect that there may be errors - however, feel free to point out consistency issues!*
Meng Dai clutched his chest, stumbling a little as his eyes widened. He gasped a little, feeling his dao and the ravening maw that was his body and soul widening as it tried to consume, tried to grasp that whic...
Hadn't really planned on writing this post right now, but since I wrote the other editor post, I thought I'd elaborate on an idea that has been churning through my mind about the types of copy & line editors I see. Please note that I realise that much of this is mixing up line and copy editing jobs together, partly because in the indie market; that's what has been happening anyway.
2024-03-27 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Even if he lived to a thousand years, Wu Ying thought he would never forget what transpired next. His friends and allies, working together to give him the opening he required. The start, coming from an unexpected angle. Perhaps he might not even have realised it, but Yin Xue; on the edges began it all.
Raised his hand, opened his demonic fist. Sucked in the swirling power, contesting the ...
2024-03-26 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWu Ying woke, in the comforting arms of his lover. He swallowed the water dribbled down his throat, feeling it refreshing him as it slid down his throat. It eased the parched throat, made it possible for him to speak even as he noted the sweetness of its taste, the coolness and purity. Water from the springs of Zhejiang, blessed by flowing over and through a dozen limestone caves and caverns th...
2024-03-22 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostBeen talking to a few new authors recently, both in my Discord and on Threads and realising that a lot of people struggle with the cost of publishing. Which I get - it can get up there.
I should note, I don't use dev editors for the most part. I generally get a dev edit done once a year, with a very good dev editor, who I can then have look over my work with an eye to improving what I can...
2024-03-20 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLong Wu Ying was bald. It was a silly fact, but one that kept running through his mind, over and over again as he fought the ruler of the Cai nation. Not that their battle was registering much gain, though he had been stabbed three times and managed to land a single attack of note on his opponent. Of course, that attack had been the upward cut of A Dragon Rises that had bisected one foot and to...
2024-03-19 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSomething in the air, something in his instincts had him glance upwards. Throw his hand above him, catching the lightning as it came crashing down. The bolt was so wide, it took up half his body. Sword still pointed at his opponent, Wu Ying channeled the racing energy. Guided it at his opponent, where it slammed into the other half-Immortal.
It arced through him, downwards now as it flowe...
2024-03-15 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of you might have seen a variation of this chart before. I'm going to be discussing each of these over the next few weeks and how you could manage a publishing career when you have multiple series. However, this is basically how I recommend you look at the various series that you...
2024-03-13 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe battle had only lasted minutes at this point, not even a quarter of an hour. Many mortals, or cultivators close enough to mortality with only a few Body Cleansing meridians opened, were still struggling to reach a point of safety. Some of the unluckiest, the least fortunate or protected were curled up, catatonic from the clash of spiritual energies and daos as the Nascent Soul cultivators d...
2024-03-12 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOf them all, only Wu Ying had directly clashed with Cai Meng Dai. He was the only one of them who understood the full strength of the man, the way he was empowered not just by his cultivation stage, but also the myriad connections to others and, just as importantly, his equipment.
They had planned for a peak Nascent Soul opponent, and if Meng Dai had given them a surprise there, it ...
2024-03-08 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAnswered someone's question on Audiobok Royalties, realised I wrote a giant text and figured I'd just post this here rather than waste it. I also got a bit tired towards the end after discussing ACX (which is the main headache) and did shortshrift of the others, but many of the others get complicated.
Anyway, here's what I said:
Okay, not sure I'm an expert but this is how I underst...
2024-03-06 23:18:23 +0000 UTC View Post