Category: Fantasy

The Shape of Things To Come

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Now that you’ve “met” Marrying A Monster, maybe it’s time for me to share a little more about the rest of the Jaiya series.

The main Jaiya series is currently three books long, and is set in “present day” Jaiya, or at least a timeframe where the technology and social developments are similar to our present day. I have some ideas for short stories or novellas about these characters, and if I come up with any more 50K-length stories in this setting, that grab me, I will write them.

Marrying A Monster is of course the first book in the series. The second book is currently titled Waking the Dreamlost, which was my Summer 2017 writing project. Monster‘s hero, Vipin, has an older brother named Marish, who is the hero of Dreamlost. I will probably spend the rest of October revising Dreamlost, along with some time in November if I finish with NaNoWriMo2016 early, and however much time it takes after that. The hope is to have it ready to go by before December 15.

Loving A Deathseer is the third book in the series in internal chronology, but the first one written. (How that happened is a story for another time.) The heroine is a relative of Vipin’s and Marish’s. This one is going to need a lot more reworking than Dreamlost, so there isn’t a timeframe for release yet.

There is also a Jaiya prequel series in the works. At this point, the only thing written is last year’s NaNoWriMo project, a fantasy romance with a gladiator/MMA fighter angle set 200+ years before Marrying A Monster. I am currently outlining a book about Vipin’s parents, which I hope to do for NaNoWriMo this year.

I also have a very rough idea for a book about Vipin’s grandparents, which I will try to write in the first quarter of next year. And there’s an even sketchier concept for a steampunk-y paranormal romance set about 75 years after the gladiator romance, and about 150 yrs before Marrying A Monster. The steampunk romance and the gladiator romance would both deal with Vipin’s ancestors. The series would start releasing sometime in 2017, barring complications.

 

New book recommendation service launching: Bobdog Books

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A gentleman named Sean Hinn is launching a new book recommendation service called Bobdog Books, where both readers and authors can submit their favorite books to his site, along with their links on Amazon. The more nominations per book, the greater the visibility. When he starts to monetize the site, through Amazon Associates links, he plans to give half the proceeds to St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Since it was a worthy cause, I went ahead and submitted Marrying A Monster to his site, and may try to submit some of my favorite books later on.

 

And the Jaglion Press Mailing List is born!

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You should start seeing a popup subscription form on this website with the following message:

“Interested in exciting news, discounts and freebies from Jaglion Press? How about news and free or discounted books by other authors? If you are, please subscribe to the Jaglion Press newsletter!”

I have volunteered to participate in a Halloween-themed promotion involving forty-plus authors, all with $0.99 books. I will probably make that the subject of my first or second newsletter, so stay tuned for some interesting offers!

Fixed version of The Pomegranate Lover is now live…and (temporarily) free!

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Having gotten the corrected file live, I am celebrating by making the book temporarily free, from today until September 23.

The “Look Inside” seems different from what I remember, but I’d read somewhere that Amazon’s Look Inside had been glitchy lately in general. Anyway, here is the link, as promised:

Embarrassing Mistake Corrected

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*Puts on Tia Baden hat*

“The Pomegranate Lover and Other Stories” went out with some embarrassing formatting errors in the final story. I have now corrected them, recompiled the file and re-uploaded to Amazon. My apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced by this. The corrected file should go live sometime tomorrow, and I will try to post again with another link to Pomegranate Lover’s Amazon page.

 

Pomegranate Lover on Amazon!

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*puts on Tia Baden hat*

Yay! The kindle edition of Pomegranate Lover went live on Amazon Tuesday or yesterday, and today the print and kindle editions linked successfully, so that you can now access them both from here. This is a collection of short (sometimes very short) stories I wrote on and off between 2005 and 2008 or 2009, and it includes “The Pomegranate Lover,” “The Prince of Horai and the Paper Sword,” “Like Father Like Son,” “Smokesteel,” “Sword of the Kear,” and “Blind Man’s Bluff.” The total collection is about 53-54 pages long, $2.99 on Kindle and $6.99 in paperback.

I am uncertain about how aggressively to promote this; I may do a Kindle Countdown Deal or a Freebie deal of some kind, and I will announce it here if so, but since I don’t know how soon I will revisit this pen name, and the genre is different from my current set of writing projects, I’m unwilling to burn promotional money on things like Bookbub, etc.