The end of the week finds us at Long and Short Reviews! There, you’ll find a character interview with Ai and another short excerpt. To give everyone a breather, the tour shall pause over the weekend, and resume on Monday. Enjoy!
Category: self publishing
Book Tour – Day Three
BooksChatter! And wow, but have they done their homework! Not only are there links to some of the things that inspired this series in the Author Q&A link, they even went to far as to show some images from my older visual novel! Heck, even my daughters make an appearance!
I wonder if anyone will be able to help fill in “If your book was made into a movie, who would be your dream team?” That one is still a puzzle to me.
EDIT: BChatter has now added a short video based upon my mentioned playlist of some of the music I listened to while writing. Talk about above-and-beyond! They even fixed the PJTV link that – being a member – I’d been unaware was behind a paywall. Superior work!
Book Tour – Day 1
I’d like to give a huge THANK YOU to Rogue Angels for having the daring to be the first up to host “The Fourth Law” on its virtual book tour!
If you’ve questions or comments as a result of what you read there, please let’s chat in their comments section. Also, please look around the rest of their site; so many interesting things!
“Where’s the world going?”
October Book Tour… Clear for Takeoff….
Alright, so that’s a bit clichéd. Nonetheless, well sponsored by GoddessFish Promotions, almost a year on, I’m finally getting ’round to promoting “The Fourth Law.”
This virtual book tour includes interviews with me, with some of the characters, blog entries… all sorts of neat things! I’ve much to say not only about this story, but also about creative writing, editing, and self-publishing. Almost each and every day I’ll be hosted by a new website, with their own series of questions and/or comments. I promise to do my best to attentively address whatever anyone may want to discuss about “The Fourth Law” and Machine Civilization.
I think this is going to be a tremendous amount of fun, and look forwards to it very much!
Loser. I am.
Apologies for the utter dearth of posts. I’m a rather uxorious person, and in the last month a cousin of my wife, along with his daughter, has been out visiting from Hungary. That means I’ve been alone for the last month. No, really: I don’t have any friends anymore, either. So, in my spare time, I’ve been drinking myself to death.
On of the nice things about working third shift is that you don’t have a sleep-time, just a series of naps. That helps with the psychosis.
4th Book-wise, I have imagined so much! Sylvia’s recruitment, her thoughts of error, her arrest – just as she is arresting the police chief of Albuquerque – Clive on the stern of the ‘Death Ship’ just before the Chinese orbital kinetic energy weapon…. I really need to find a reason to write all of this down.
In the mean time, here’s one of the triggers for my first novel. Really!.
“Echoes of Family Lost”
I’m very pleased to announce the release of my second novel. “Echoes of Family Lost” is a sequel to my first book, “The Fourth Law,” and takes place in my future history of Machine Civilization. The story of Ai’s and Lily’s families – and how they are increasingly intertwined – continues.
Hardcopies are available here and the $0.99 Kindle version is here. Thanks to everyone for your on-going support! I hope to have a very short story from this series posted tomorrow as a way of saying thanks.
“You don’t have a Soul; you are a Soul. You have a Body.” CS Lewis
CreateSpace is now processing my final changes to “Echoes of Family Lost;” with luck and grace, it should be available this week. So, what’s next?
“Henge’s Big Day!” I’ve never written for children before. Why not see what I’m capable of doing? In an earlier post I mentioned the library at the school my two girls attend. I’ve been a volunteer in said library for years… stacking, shelving, reorganizing. I’ve had plenty of time to look at those books in the “E” section. Easy? Early Reader? Don’t know nor care. But I started paying attention to the format.
“HBD” will be about 10 x 10″ with a hardcover – if I can afford it. I’d like to: we withdraw softcover kids books after only two years of use, on average; they’re just too damaged. Kids are natural entropy-bots; it’s one of the things that make them interesting. I’d lost my point… so, about ten inches square (that’s blib quatloos for you on the metric system). I thought about a story… I thought about Henge (pronounced “hen-geh”) the youngest of Machine Civilization and also something of a hybrid… although that explanation really doesn’t come out until late in “EFL.” Even so, late in “T4L” Henge overhears a comment by Lily, and immediately applies it to herself.
On the one hand, MachCiv is all about so-called AI’s; on the second hand, I keep hammering away at their nature as people. On the gripping hand, “T4L” is shot through with Lily’s re-discovered Christianity. What if one of them looked at the evidence and wanted to become a Christian?
How do you baptize a string of code? Throwing water onto a rack of servers would be a very bad idea. But… the rest of the idea….
I cannot draw; once upon a time I could make 3D-parametric design software dance, sing, bring drinks and empty ashtrays. Now…. Below the fold are some awful sketches from my 20-page “Henge’s Big Day!” I wont say ‘don’t laugh,’ as I have, too! I use it to try to let illustrators know what I’m looking for. What’s sad is that I’ve gone looking for illustrators here and here and here, freely talking four figures of money, and after a month I have only a single, possible lead. Is everyone so satisfied with their day-jobs?! Is everyone so narcoleptized by the dole? Why is finding an illustrator this difficult? Twenty pages! Little background! Watercolors!
Sheesh. It’s enough to drive a man to drink. Let me get another Martini, then tell you about Book Four. Now, that’s killing me.
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If sharing is caring… is drinking like thinking?
I made a gift of a hardcopy of The Fourth Law to my girls’ primary school library. After reading it, the Librarian asked me to come in and give a short (~20 minute) talk to the 6th, 7th, and 8th graders about creative writing and self-publishing. Why not?
Attached is a pdf of the PowerPoint I was using. It’s fairly sparse, but I use the slides more as a mnemonic device to keep me on track while talking.
The 6th Graders were fun: not only did they ask many questions, there was the “that’s cool!” moment when they realized that Daughter #2, their classmate, is the T4L’s protagonist. As I told them: write what you know.
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