Old Races short story collection answers

I should have been smart enough to answer these without having to be asked, but somehow I wasn’t. :) There will be 3 Old Races collections coming out in epub this summer. The first, OLD RACES: ORIGINS, will contain five of the Old Races Short Story Project stories, all set long before the Negotiator Trilogy: » Salt Water Stains the Sand, a story of the djinn which is also available as a free read on my website; » The Death of Him, a story of the selkies; » Falling, a…

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a-revising we will go

Got through the first pass of NO DOMINION revisions yesterday, and caused myself to burst into tears near the end. I hope that’s a sign of the book doing what it should rather than me desperately needing more sleep. :) To answer the most-oft asked NO DOMINION question: yes, it will eventually be made available to a wider audience than just the Kickstarter patrons. But I don’t know when or how yet, so I’ll keep you posted when I do. Today I have to rewrite a few scenes, add a…

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NO DOMINION

Today I’m going to start NO DOMINION revisions, and also doing busywork stuff for the epub like putting the (FOUR PAGE!) acknowledgements list together. o.O If you are a NO DOMINION subscriber, and have not filled out the survey which asks for addresses, names, and other moderately important things, you should go check the Kickstarter page to see if the survey link is there in your upper left hand corner, because the emails apparently didn’t all go through, and some 75 people haven’t answered yet. Janne and a couple other…

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Kickstarter musings

Sudden random Kickstarter/crowdfunding question, not that I’m actually planning to do this, I’m just curious: Part of the hard thing about crowdfunding is figuring out how much you oughta ask for. I happen to believe in being pretty transparent about that sort of thing, hence my breakdown of why I was asking $4K for “No Dominion” (which really ought to be NO DOMINION now, but I can’t quite get over the quotes habit). And I’m watching the various price points set to Make It Go for other novellas, revisions projects,…

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50K & counting

“No Dominion”, the 30,000 word novella I intended to write, has just cracked 50K and the end is not yet in reach. Febnowrimo Wordcount: 25600 / 50000 (51.20%)