After I finished writing and publishing The Fire And The Storm, I
planned on starting a big marketing effort. But I decided that I would
first re-edit all four books, and re-write People Of The Tiger to
broaden it's appeal. I've become a better editor since I last worked on
People and Hunters, and I used a lot from the reviews, tips and
suggestions I got from readers. I thank all of them, especially
Soronel who is visually impaired and listens to my books with a
text-to-speech converter. He catches things no one else noticed.
In a process that began two days ago and will finish in a couple of
weeks, the 2012 revisions are being posted to all the sites where my
books are sold, starting with Smashwords.com, then my site, then Amazon,
then everywhere else.
I've also changed my pricing policy.
People Of The Tiger will no longer be available for free, and will be
priced at 99 cents. Blessings Of A Curse will be available for free,
for a limited time. The 2nd book in both series will be priced at
$5.99.
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2012 revisions, and new pricing.
New Title and progress announcement
I'm closing in on finishing Book Two of The Nexus of Kellaran, but I've changed my mind about it's title. The title will be; The Fire And The Storm. Those who are on my mailing list because they've bought or downloaded a book from my website or wrote me a fan letter, and those who've 'Liked' my Author's facebook page, will have a chance to get the Pre-Release Edition as soon as the text is finalized. The published version will follow a couple of weeks after that, with new cover graphics, appendices, and new maps, and those who got the Pre-Release Edition will get those materials at that time.
I love my fan mail! Here's a couple more!
Wow! This is awesome i love and thank god there is more. Truly one of the best sic-fi reads I have ever had. And the editorial work on this is amazing. love it love it and love it. Can not wait to read more. Thank you for sharing. Mechmanas.
Yes!!! It continues!!! I have read a couple of hours every night for the last week ,one of the finest
si-fi or any storie for that matter. This vision of your future is in a different
realm of most writers. I love this out look, it would be great to say we have
seen our future and it is great. THANK YOU
It's all about the fan mail!
When I was a musician, it was all about the reaction of the crowd. With writing, it's the fan mail. It's what made me take writing seriously, it's why I decided to publish, it's what keeps me going as a writer when setbacks occur. In an abstract way, I really love my fans. So I've decided to share some of the fan letters I receive. A lot of them come anonymously, and most don't want their info released, but I promise that all of them are genuine fan mail.
Hi Wayne
I have just finished reading “People of the Tiger” and “Hunters in The Sky” end to end and you have joined my most favoured authors list.
This is a fantastic story set in a wonderfully crafted world of social science fiction/fantasy. Once I started I found your books almost impossible to resist and to me that has to be one of the highest accolades a writers can receive.
I am awaiting the next instalment of ‘The Rational Future Series” with excited and selfish impatience, so don’t just sit there reading this “hurry up and get it written”
Awesome sci-fi!!!
Very well thought out! I love the complex plot that keeps you reading and reading and reading. I finished it in 3 days and am eager to read the next book.
Ratings systems.
I've noticed that I have tens of thousands of fans on free sites that allow the readers to easily rate stories books from one to ten. Almost everyone that reads my books them gives them a nine or a ten, with an average score of around 9.35.
On sites that don't have ratings, readers are just hoping to stumble on something good among the thousands of books available. On those sites, people don't know whether a book is good until they read it, and my books don't do as well. I think I'll write to those sites and suggest they implement a rating mechanism.
Timeline for new releases.
A lot of people have asked when my next releases are going to be out. The next book I'll be releasing will be the sequel to Blessings Of A Curse; Book Two of The Nexus Of Kellaran Series. I plan to release it near the end of March 2011.
Book Three of The Rational Future Series; the sequel to People Of The Tiger and Hunters In The Sky, is planned to be released near the end of summer 2011.
Book Three of The Nexus Of Kellaran should be out in late 2011 or early 2012.
Posted to Scribd!
I've posted People Of the Tiger to Scribd.com, one of the biggest reading sites, with over 50 million visits a month. I discovered it using Alexa.com, which is a great site that ranks all the websites by category and by how many visitors they get. I'd have like to have listed my other books for sale on the Scribd Store, but while it's in beta only Americans can use it. Hopefully it'll be out of beta soon.
Now I'm getting somewhere!
I have finally been able to make my books widely available! They can now be bought on Amazon, Kindle, eBay, e-Junkie Marketplace, Lulu, and here on my website. I'll soon have them available at Smashwords.com, which will have them in even more ebook formats than I'm offering here. Through Smashwords, they'll be available at the Apple iBookstore, Barnes and Noble, Sony Reader Bookstore, Kobo, Diesel eBook Store, and also distributed into the native catalogs of top mobile e-reading apps such as Stanza on the iPhone and iPad and Aldiko and Word-Player on Android devices. And I'm just getting started!
Being a publisher is not as much fun as being an author. It's a ton of work. It's also a tower of Babel out there, and everywhere you upload your work has different requirements for formatting and file type. But it's worth it.
New releases!
My books are now available on The Amazon Kindle Store as Kindle ebooks, and they are available as paperbacks on Amazon through the Amazon Lulu Marketplace!
People Of The Tiger eBooks now FREE!!!
All eBook formats of People Of The Tiger are now available for free on my website! http://wayneedwardclarke.viviti.com
That book and the sequel to it are available in two versions; with American measurements, and with Metric units! You can get paperbacks and hardcovers of both books in The Rational Future Series at my Lulu.com webstore! People Of The Tiger, and Hunters In The Sky!
My newest novel has just been released!
Hunters In The Sky, Book Two of The
Rational Future Series, is now available!! I worked like an obsessed fanatic and wrote it
(1108 pages in pocketbook size) in four months while working full time.
In the last two weeks I've edited it, re-wrote and re-edited it's
prequel, produced 4 new covers, produced 4 paperback formats,
4 hardcover formats, and 20 ebook formats, released them all on my
website and my Lulu webstore, and re-produced my site and my webstore.
Now to start marketing!
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