The draft is in! I finished my Phase II edits and have submitted Asteroid Made of Dragons to Inkshares for editorial review. My beta readers are also opening their emails just about now and feeling the white-hot beams of NERD across their faces. I'm excited/nervous, but I know the book is ready to be hated by people other than me. I'll keep you all updated as the notes come back in and how the timeline shapes up for the rest of the pre-production and -GASP -publishing of your book that you bought (you fools).
Audio Schmaudio
Now to start trying to deliver on some of my foolish campaign promises! I had talked about making audio books of my first two novels for all the backers - but the logistics of this enterprise are pretty daunting. Just as an experiment, could any of you with audio/podcasting/recording/listening/ears listen to the audio track I uploaded on SoundCloud?
[Spoilers obviously - but these are some cool chapters that haven't been released anywhere else, and they're from the end of Act One, so they won't spoil the end of the book or anything for you.]
This was never intended to be heard, as it's just a tool for my editing purposes - but this is a pretty basement version of me doing an audiobook. This is the recording equipment and voice I have -- this isn't anywhere good enough is it? Any suggestions on better/reasonably priced sound equipment? I want to make good on the promise - and it would be wise to get my stuff available in audio format anyway, but I'm nervous about not putting out a professional product. AMORPHOUS DEITY TAKE THE WHEEL. Take a short listen and let me know what you guys think - honest feedback please!
Spare Inkshares Credits?
If you've somehow missed the trumpets and letters of fire in the internet heavens - yes, Inkshares is running a new contest sponsored by The Nerdist. This is salaciously exciting of course - I've already gone nuts pre-ordering a bunch of the new crop, and I'm sure many of you are probably sitting on old credits from the last contest - so GET IN THE GAME.
Here's the full roster, and here are the ones I've backed so far. More to follow next payday.
These Old Bones - this book sounds like everything mine isn't - in the BEST way. Well thought-out world, clever society, excellent craft. End of the synopsis gives me the grabby hands - like I'm reading the back of the book at Barnes & Noble and eager to put it in my cart.
She is the End - I'm a sucker for a good title, but every other thing about this project is well north of Rad. I would also implore you to watch the campaign video immediately, it has to be the absolute best one I've seen here on the site. As a HUGE Joseph Campbell fanboy the author pushed all of my nerd buttons.
Moonlight and the Magician - Tasteful, sexy fantasy fun. It's a romp! I know this author in REAL LIFE and have been making fun of her for months about gay werewolves -- I stopped making fun when I read her first excerpt. This is well-crafted, blushy goodness. I stopped a few times to ask myself 'Am I supposed to be as into this as I am?' and I think that's a very good sign for something outside my wheelhouse, a fantasy/romance/lycanthropic/sorcerous hybrid.
How to Be Hit By a Bullet - No lie. I read the synopsis and I bought it. READ IT NOW AND TRY TO RESIST. A demon-possessed Spanish revolutionary and the KGB werebear who killed her parents team up to fight Nazi superhumans. If that doesn't make you DEMAND this book exist, then well - we are not friends anymore.
A God in the Shed - Something fancy and new from fellow Sword & Laser winner JF Dubeau. I was tempted to put up my own campaign ' A Dog in the Den' just to sow confusion, but this project sounds seriously sinister and delicious. Maturity and magic all mixed up with a strange being locked up in a shed? Color me intrigued.
So many more to check out - make sure you do, especially as the contest gets down to the wire. More books, more readers, more weird stories about wonder -- GIMME.
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