For NaNoWriMo 2012, I'm focusing on the superhero novel idea.
It's based in the same 'Verse I've set up in The Hero Cleanup Protocol story.
I have a few characters in mind lined up. I'll need to refresh meself to the rules of the 'Verse as I've set them.
Now, for the 50,000 words...
Showing posts with label smashwords. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smashwords. Show all posts
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Remind Me Of This From Time To Time
For the Florida Writer's Association gathering in Wesley Chapel this October, I got to have presentation materials for two things completed:
Should have stuff in place by the end of August, have it proof-read by others and fact-checked besides.
- National Novel Writing Month - discussing the when, why, who, how, and what for the following November
- How To Get Published To Smashwords - writing a story, getting cover art, uploading all of it, getting a default ISBN, publishing to ereader formats, self-marketing
Should have stuff in place by the end of August, have it proof-read by others and fact-checked besides.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
A Gift To The Seven People Who Read This Blog
A FREE download of The Hero Cleanup Protocol!
1) Visit the Smashwords' website for the estory.
2) Select Add To Cart button.
3) Use the Coupon Code JJ47F. It should drop the price of the estory to FREE.
4) Follow the download instructions for the version of ereader you have. There are separate versions for Kindle, ePub (covering Nook, iApple and other readers), and more.
5) Install the story file to your reader and enjoy!
If you can, please give the estory a review (and be gentle!). Thanks!
EDIT: The code is good until November 1st.
1) Visit the Smashwords' website for the estory.
2) Select Add To Cart button.
3) Use the Coupon Code JJ47F. It should drop the price of the estory to FREE.
4) Follow the download instructions for the version of ereader you have. There are separate versions for Kindle, ePub (covering Nook, iApple and other readers), and more.
5) Install the story file to your reader and enjoy!
If you can, please give the estory a review (and be gentle!). Thanks!
EDIT: The code is good until November 1st.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
eStory: The Hero Cleanup Protocol - Published!
After a few months of realizing I needed to edit the story some more to Smashwords' content rules, that I had to follow through to the Premium stage and request an ISBN (which is the ISBN-13 number 9781458089526, I hope), and that I needed to resubmit after all the corrections...
The "Hero Cleanup Protocol" estory is now available for purchase!
I finally got a cover artist, a friend of a friend of a colleague who knows a guy, fellow by the name of Mike Rooth who does this sort of artwork on a commission basis. A thumbnail copy of the cover is to the side of this paragraph. Once the cover was finalized I completed the Smashwords submission process and finally got the approval about a week ago.
I was only waiting until now to verify that YES the story is for sale.
Because I've already got two purchases yesterday! Ahhhhhhhh, the emotional high of selling your work, it's like a perfect drug...
It's selling for .99 per copy, the cheapest it can go, as it's a short story and not a full novel. The good news is, the overall experience of submitting a work for publication seems relatively simple. As long as I do a better job of planning ahead for cover art, I should get a finished and edited-reviewed draft up and for sale within weeks instead of six months or more with a print book.
The best thing about Smashwords is that, unlike the direct-retailer situation I had with "Welcome To Florida" the story I submitted directly to B&N's PubIt service, what I've submitted through Smashwords is going to show up in other retailers: Not only Barnes&Noble's Nook, but also Sony's Reader, the Kobo, Diesel ebooks, and Apple iBook. Amazon's Kindle doesn't have it yet, but Smashwords is waiting for Kindle to get the conversion upgrade for DRM formatting, so when that happens you Kindle owners can buy a copy!
My trick now: marketing. Hoo boy. So here's the deal, folks. If you can get 49,998 more people to buy a copy of "The Hero Cleanup Protocol", I'll be a very happy librarian person. Thank yew. :-)
The "Hero Cleanup Protocol" estory is now available for purchase!
I was only waiting until now to verify that YES the story is for sale.
Because I've already got two purchases yesterday! Ahhhhhhhh, the emotional high of selling your work, it's like a perfect drug...
It's selling for .99 per copy, the cheapest it can go, as it's a short story and not a full novel. The good news is, the overall experience of submitting a work for publication seems relatively simple. As long as I do a better job of planning ahead for cover art, I should get a finished and edited-reviewed draft up and for sale within weeks instead of six months or more with a print book.
The best thing about Smashwords is that, unlike the direct-retailer situation I had with "Welcome To Florida" the story I submitted directly to B&N's PubIt service, what I've submitted through Smashwords is going to show up in other retailers: Not only Barnes&Noble's Nook, but also Sony's Reader, the Kobo, Diesel ebooks, and Apple iBook. Amazon's Kindle doesn't have it yet, but Smashwords is waiting for Kindle to get the conversion upgrade for DRM formatting, so when that happens you Kindle owners can buy a copy!
My trick now: marketing. Hoo boy. So here's the deal, folks. If you can get 49,998 more people to buy a copy of "The Hero Cleanup Protocol", I'll be a very happy librarian person. Thank yew. :-)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
New eStory: The Hero Cleanup Protocol
by. Paul Wartenberg
cover by. Paul Wartenberg, 'cause I'm waiting on word from Adam Withers if he's available to draw a cover for me... ;-)
The story is an idea I'd been bumping about for ages: my own little superhero reality where it's a world where Superheroes exist... but because they didn't know they classified as supers, by the time they could do anything about it (the Sixties) all the superhero names were claimed by the comic book industry. So they have to go with fake "real names" like Charlie or Vicky... except for the rare few who can afford to pay a name squatter the rights to those names. This is also a world where Superheroes have to be registered: either work under legal guidelines for the U.S. Marshals or the military (where supersoldiers rarely worked out well...), or "retire". The mechanics of the world is that 1) anyone can be a hero: there's no defining DNA or chromosomal trait or mutating process; 2) most super powers are basic such as improved agility, speed, and flight... but that's usually it, there are few advanced powers like firestarting, telekinesis, or scrying; 3) the powers are mental in nature, not physical, even the powers of strength and invulnerability; 4) Most supers don't even know they have powers because they're rarely in a situation to employ them; and 5) there are few true Superhumans or God-like beings: most are mortal humans (there's one or two notable exceptions, and they're terrifying...).
In this world, there's (supposedly) one potential superhuman per 500,000 people. Most supers organize into teams per city/metro, dedicated to stuff like bounty hunting, emergency response to disasters, and public relations (they're treated like sports athletes and celebrities: the third thing you get when you become a Registered Super - AKA Talent because "Super" had been trademarked - is your own playable trading card). And in this world, every wannabe hero goes through rigorous training with the FBI and Marshals offices at Quantico. They also go through rigorous psych evals, because the last thing anyone wants on their team is a superhero ready to snap at any second.
My story is about what happens when a new hero arrival snaps on his first day. That's the Cleanup Protocol. And it's my introduce to the key character of my superhero universe: Powersurge, the exception to all the rules I made...
It's been uploaded into Smashwords, made available for various ereader services. I think it has a converted format for Kindle as well, which is a bit surprising because I thought Kindle was still using an exclusive format...
This was part of my Local Authors event presentation: I wanted to demonstrate the relative ease of getting a story uploaded straight from Word document format into an epublishing market.
The tricky part now is, obviously, how to get 50,000 people to buy that estory... ;-)
cover by. Paul Wartenberg, 'cause I'm waiting on word from Adam Withers if he's available to draw a cover for me... ;-)
The story is an idea I'd been bumping about for ages: my own little superhero reality where it's a world where Superheroes exist... but because they didn't know they classified as supers, by the time they could do anything about it (the Sixties) all the superhero names were claimed by the comic book industry. So they have to go with fake "real names" like Charlie or Vicky... except for the rare few who can afford to pay a name squatter the rights to those names. This is also a world where Superheroes have to be registered: either work under legal guidelines for the U.S. Marshals or the military (where supersoldiers rarely worked out well...), or "retire". The mechanics of the world is that 1) anyone can be a hero: there's no defining DNA or chromosomal trait or mutating process; 2) most super powers are basic such as improved agility, speed, and flight... but that's usually it, there are few advanced powers like firestarting, telekinesis, or scrying; 3) the powers are mental in nature, not physical, even the powers of strength and invulnerability; 4) Most supers don't even know they have powers because they're rarely in a situation to employ them; and 5) there are few true Superhumans or God-like beings: most are mortal humans (there's one or two notable exceptions, and they're terrifying...).
In this world, there's (supposedly) one potential superhuman per 500,000 people. Most supers organize into teams per city/metro, dedicated to stuff like bounty hunting, emergency response to disasters, and public relations (they're treated like sports athletes and celebrities: the third thing you get when you become a Registered Super - AKA Talent because "Super" had been trademarked - is your own playable trading card). And in this world, every wannabe hero goes through rigorous training with the FBI and Marshals offices at Quantico. They also go through rigorous psych evals, because the last thing anyone wants on their team is a superhero ready to snap at any second.
My story is about what happens when a new hero arrival snaps on his first day. That's the Cleanup Protocol. And it's my introduce to the key character of my superhero universe: Powersurge, the exception to all the rules I made...
It's been uploaded into Smashwords, made available for various ereader services. I think it has a converted format for Kindle as well, which is a bit surprising because I thought Kindle was still using an exclusive format...
This was part of my Local Authors event presentation: I wanted to demonstrate the relative ease of getting a story uploaded straight from Word document format into an epublishing market.
The tricky part now is, obviously, how to get 50,000 people to buy that estory... ;-)
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