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The Epic Fall Book Sale is running now through November 30th!
Sponsored by EPIC Indie – The home of Indie Fantasy and Sci-Fi, it’s an ideal one-stop-shop if you’re looking for a great new fall read. Click the image above to find exciting new indie works in Science Fiction and Fantasy!
I’m happy to announce that Dawn of Chaos will be included in the upcoming “Black Friday/Cyber Monday” Edition of the Big Based Book Sale!
“Bypass cultural gatekeeping, support non-woke authors, and get yourself some great books from both established and emerging talent for only $0.99 – many titles free!“
Sponsored by Hans Schantz (aka Aetherczar) and scheduled to coincide with Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend, it will begin on Wednesday, November 22nd, and run for seven days through midnight, Wednesday, September 29th. Hans will be posting a link to the sale on the afternoon of the 22nd; when he does, I will update this post to include it.
Hans’ Big Based Book Sales have become a tri-annual tradition that I’ve been proud to be part of. While I haven’t made a point of marketing my work this way until fairly recently, it is very much “outside the mainstream” of what has become acceptable in today’s publishing world. That is one of many reasons why I chose to be an indie.
I don’t exactly consider myself a “conservative.” But with themes that are firmly rooted in anti-establishment traditions of independent thought and individualism, my work is antithetical to the “woke” messaging that dominates modern Science Fiction and Fantasy publishing. That alignment makes it, in current cultural parlance, based.
A great article on Hans’ Big Based Book Sales appeared recently in The Federalist. I highly recommend it to anyone who supports, or wants to understand, the backlash against the censoriousness of today’s publishing, and the trend toward independent movements to circumvent it.
In addition to sponsoring the Big Based Book Sales, Hans is an accomplished science fiction author and a physicist publishing a fascinating new series of articles on electromagnetism. For those interested, check out his website, and his Substacks here and here.
I’m pleased to announce that Dawn of Chaos, Volume One of the Sanctum of the Archmage Saga, will be included in the upcoming Big Based Book Sale!
Sponsored by Hans Schantz (aka Aetherczar) and scheduled to coincide with the BasedCon Science Fiction and Fantasy conference, it will begin on Thursday, September 7th, and run for seven days through midnight, Wednesday, September 13th.
I’m pleased to be returning as one of the sale’s “fan favorite” authors, as well as a new arrival for the debut listing of Dawn of Chaos. During the sale week Dawn of Chaos will be available from all online bookstores for only $0.99. So check it out now for some great works of science fiction and fantasy!
It wasn’t demons, death, and slavery to the Dark that truly frightened her. It was the woman she would have to become to fight them.
Filed Under: Books, Dawn of Chaos
I’m pleased to announce Andarian Publishing’s “Liberty Book Sale!” It will begin today, June 19th, and run for three weeks, through July 9th. It will begin as part of the “Big Based Book Sale” scheduled to coincide with the LibertyCon Sci Fi and Fantasy conference, and continue through Independence Day holiday week in the US.
Each of the e-books in Dawn of Chaos will be available at a substantial discount on all platforms, starting with the full volume omnibus edition at only $2.99. Each of the individual books in the series will be either free or $0.99, including the full length novel, Hell Gate.
In preparation for the sale, all the books in the series have also been updated to the new June 2023 revised edition. That includes an epub 3 update with improved formatting built off a single master for consistency, and a final edit to clean up most of what remained of the more clumsy “first-time author” prose.
Updated prices and sales pages are at the image link above. Now, on to continuing work on the next book, Wrath of the Peregrine King!
It’s been a little over a year now since I was forced, early, into my planned “retirement pivot” to writing epic fantasy. I’ve devoted a lot of effort during that time to learning the ins and outs of indie publishing, building an online platform, and improving and re-releasing the first trilogy in my Sanctum of the Archmage Saga. I’m now writing the second volume in the series, working on an audiobook of the first, and planning a regular and ongoing release strategy to Substack and then to bookstores.
So I think it’s time to start a new phase in my publishing career, one that I’ve probably been putting off for too long. That’s to focus more on the roadblock that stymies most new authors: visibility. My work has essentially none, despite near universal raves from the few who’ve read and reviewed it. It’s easy to publish an indie book today; the trick is getting anyone to notice (much less buy) it, regardless of how good it might be.
I’ve been researching and making notes on indie publishing “best practices” for this, and I’m going to start devoting some serious time and effort into putting them into practice. If anyone has thoughts or advice on what’s working well for this in today’s market, I’m very interested in feedback on this — so please feel free to comment. 🙂
I’m happy to announce that I’ve launched a new Substack, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙢.
The Sanctum will be an expanded, Substack-based version of my author newsletter. It will include:
There’ll be a lot of content available on the free subscription, so feel free to head over to check it out and subscribe.