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Spring ’24 News – Cons and Book Sales!

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Here’s some news for Spring 2024, from Andarian Publishing!

As I expect some have noticed, I’ve been largely inactive in my publishing activities over the last year. “Real Life” came down on us pretty hard in 2023, and I’ve had to divert time and focus from writing to deal with all of that. Even my new Substack has had to take a back seat to it. That’s likely continue for a few more months yet, but I do expect it to improve later in the year. I’m still determined to complete and publish at least the first half of Wrath of the Peregrine King before the end of 2024.

In the meantime, though, I do have plans to make some time to keep my author career alive until then. Here’s what’s coming up for me in 2024.

Current and Upcoming Book Sales

  • The EPIC Spring Sale is running now through the end of March, with over 70 books by some of the best indie fantasy and sci-fi authors — including, of course, Dawn of Chaos. EPIC is a fantastic site that helps connect SF and Fantasy readers with indie authors, and it runs book sales every quarter. Check it out!
  • The Based Book Sales move to Substack with a new quarterly schedule. I’m a strong supporter of the Based Book Sales, and my work will always be in them. Independent thought in art and philosophy are high values of mine, and based books and the Iron Age movement are where to find those today. During the sales all books are available for free or $0.99. Be sure to check them out!
  • The Everyday Based Book Sale is launching for books that are always listed for free or $0.99. Since Dawn of Chaos (Sanctum of the Archmage, Volume One) is also available as a miniseries of novella-length “episodes” that are always in that price range, they’ll be listed in it.
  • The Spring Based Book Sale will run from March 27 through April 2. Here’s the link:
  • The LibertyCon Sale will run from June 19 through June 25.
  • The BasedCon Sale will run from September 4 through September 10.
  • The Based Black Friday Sale will run from November 27 through December 3.

Convention Appearances. I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be attending four Science Fiction and Fantasy fan conventions in 2024. The first was MarsCon in January, where I was proud to make my first appearance as a guest panelist. I had a fantastic time and met a lot of great people.

Here’s my con schedule for the rest of the year:

  • FantaSci in Durham, NC (April 19-21). This was my first SF/F con, when I came last year as an attendee. This year I’ll be a guest panelist there as well.
  • LibertyCon in Chattanooga, TN (June 21-23). I was there last year as an attendee, and this year I’ll be a guest panelist as well.
  • BasedCon (September 6-8). This will be my first time attending BasedCon, and I’m very much looking forward to it.

The Big Based Book Sale

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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.

Conservative Guerrilla Marketing Like The ‘Big Based Book Sale’ Is How We Fight Leftist Gatekeepers by Jocelyn Cordes

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.

Dawn of Chaos: Book Sale

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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!

“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 the BasedCon Science Fiction and Fantasy conference, it will begin on Thursday, September 7th, and run for seven days through midnight, Wednesday, September 13th.

Dawn of Chaos - Cover

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.

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Liberty Book Sale, 2023!

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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!

The Next Phase

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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. 🙂