May 26, 2015

Update for Tuesday the 26th of May:

We're into the final push towards the 31st of May and the end of the Sword & Laser contest. We've finally gone over the 100 sale mark but Ghosts of War is still currently just over 200 copies out of 5th place, so it's quite a climb, but I'm not losing hope that we can still push this over the line.

As a booster to the end of this competition I've compiled an 8 chapter preview of the book, you can view/download it at the link below. It's around 100 pages and should give a good insight into the story, the characters and their relationships and hopefully will leave you wanting to read the rest.

http://bit.ly/1HtTtAf

Getting 200+ orders in the next few days isn't going to be easy, so as always I'd love it if you could help me out by sharing the link to the sample (it contains links to order the book) and using whatever methods of coercion you have at your disposal to convince your friends/family/coworkers/underlings/minions to grab a copy. Every little bit helps.

On the writing front, there have been a few changes to the end of the story. There were some key characters who were just sitting around (literally, they were in a room doing nothing) while all the climactic stuff was going on and based on everything I'd written up to that point, I realised there was no way in hell those characters would just sit idly by. So I've been planning out and reorganising the ending a bit to incorporate them a bit better.

It's actually been a good thing to happen as bits of my prior ending didn't make much sense and the premise they set up for the sequel wasn't going to work. So now this ending works better and it's allowed me to further develop my ideas for the sequels which I've been doing a bit of as well. 

Good times.