Help Build an Adventure Story
If you're a fan of adventure franchises like Indiana Jones, Tomb Raider, and Uncharted, you'll find my newest reader input opportunity very exciting!
You can help create the hero ($5), the villain ($5), and the treasure they're both hunting ($3) for a new adventure story that I'm going to write.
See the post in the Store for full details.
Podcast: Happy Friday 013
Happy Friday! Here's episode 13 of my podcast.
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Show Notes
0:01 - 3:52 Introduction and announcements. Grocery Fund update. Losing Freight will be taking a one-week break.
3:53 - 8:53 Year of Stories: discussion of Unsettled. Thoughts on involving readers more in the YoS.
8:54 - 18:20 Q&A: Questions from @PoshPlatypus and @Invariel.
18:21 - 20:06 Sign-off. Note: the Happy Friday podcast will be changing to biweekly instead of weekly moving forward.
Questions
Got a question for me? Get your Q&A questions in by emailing tsevenhuysen@gmail.com, contacting me on Twitter, Facebook, or Google+, or using the Formspring widget in the sidebar. If I answer your question, you'll receive a $1 Store credit!
March Grocery Fund Update
As I write this, the Grocery Fund for March sits at $69.63, pretty far short of its $300 goal. That's quite a drop off, considering that we reached the goal in both January and February, but there are a couple of reasons not to panic!
1) The Special People IndieGoGo campaign has been running this month (and will still be going next month), so I've been directing people's attention towards that quite a bit. Some funds that might have been used to buy things from the Store or left as donations have gone towards the fundraiser, instead, and that's great!
2) I'm not counting in-person sales/preorders of DISCOVERY towards the Grocery Fund until I receive payment for them. The books haven't arrived yet, but they should be hitting my doorstep in the next couple of days. Once I start putting them into people's hands and getting paid for them, those sales will get counted towards the Grocery Fund. They'll probably get counted towards April instead of March, though.
Thank you to everyone who has been chipping in, whether that's to the Grocery Fund or the Special People fundraiser. We're still only in the third month of this crazy ride, so there are plenty of good things to come, and lots of growth to go through!
Edit: As of March 30, some unanticipated generosity has pushed us much closer to the $300 goal. Hooray, and thank you!
Galloway’s Hunt — Now in Print!
I love having things I've written available in print, and the magic of print-on-demand publishing services makes that possible for all kinds of different projects!
The latest print offering I have for you is my novelette Galloway's Hunt. You can grab it now from Amazon for $5.99. As a special bonus with the print edition, you get an excerpt from my upcoming novel, Galloway's Voyage, which I've been making good progress on lately.
And as before, you can get the ebook either from my Store or from Amazon for 99¢.
Year of Stories – Week 13
Welcome to week 13 of the Year of Stories!
Free this week is Unsettled, a 6,800-word sci-fi action epic. Read it now! You can also buy it for 99¢ in the Store.
Synopsis
Darien Hammond and his wife, Tiffany, helped clear planet Oronado of the incumbent alien Cust almost two decades ago. They laid down roots, started a farm and a family, and settled into their new life. Then the Cust returned. The human settlers are on the run, scrambling into shuttles as their cities and farms are burned from orbit. Can Darien and his family make it out in time?
The highlighted Store release for this week is From, a 3,100-word western-inspired drama. Read it now for only $0.99!
Synopsis
People change. Places change. Dean Cooper knows that as well as anyone. Change is the only constant thing in his life; he accepted that fact a long time ago. But when he decides to stop in at his childhood home one day, will he find its new owners' changes so easy to handle?
To read previously released stories, check out the Year of Stories page.
Special People
Special People is serialized superhero fiction with a fistful of twists.
Special people have special problems.
BECOMING
The second quarter of the Year of Stories has arrived in print! BECOMING contains over 200 pages of great short stories for only $11.99. Order yours now.
DISCOVERY
Prefer the feel of paper to the look of a screen? DISCOVERY is the first quarterly Year of Stories print book. You get nearly 200 pages of exciting fiction for only $11.99! Grab your copy now.
Galloway’s Hunt
Galloway's Hunt is a novelette set in the world of Galloway's Voyage, my work-in-progress novel based on the same title character. Buy it now for only 99¢!
Losing Freight
Losing Freight is a serialized sci-fi novel where you get to vote on what happens next at the end of every page.