Return of the Outcast guy...

It's done!

It's printing!

It's finished!

Return of the Outcast is finally published in paperback edition!

This one was a difficult editing process. But it's finally done!

I'm so happy!

This means...War of the Zealot is officially over.




But the story has just begun...

News!

Okay, this time it's really news.

This is real news.

IT'S REAL NEWS!

Tomorrow, Monday, December 22 of 2014...

Return of the Outcast shall be released in Paperback format!!!!!




DUN DUN DUN!!!





Do you know what this means?


It means the final book of War of the Zealot Empire will be finished!

Not only that, it'll be published!

Everything is falling into place!

I'm so excited!


I'll post more information tomorrow when it's finally published! 














Also...as requested...the excerpt!

I'm an Indie Writer...I'm an Indie Publisher...

I sigh and look around to see nothing but emptiness.

I sigh and look around my desktop to see only more projects that need to be done.

I sigh and look upon the many faces that are compiled files meant for each book and each project that needs completed in each step of its process towards publication.



It's harsh to look at all of that and know it's not getting done yet.


Why are you looking at me though?



Oh yea...cause I'm the only one doing all of these.


Well you can't blame me solely.

Blame real life...I guess.

In the end, writing and art are hobbies...

Hobbies I wish I could make into my career...nonetheless...

I have much else to do outside of writing...



So why am I wasting two minutes to post a blog here?



Well...


I can't help but feel like I can't reach out to anybody without something done.

And yet nothing is done.

So for the people waiting for this to get done, I'm sorry, it's all in the works.


For those who stumbled upon this post by chance...



Good luck figuring out what I mean.


Alright.

Alright.

I'll tell you what I do.



I write stories.

 No novels.

I edit the novels.

I format the novels.

I make for them covers.

I make a pretty internal layout.

I set up the information for them.

I advertise them (to the extent that I have within my grasp).

I fix all of the problems the publishing system has with the books I upload.

I publish the books.

I redo all the manuscripts in a format that allows them to be eBooks.

I format headers for a table of contents.

I check and double check all of these headers and the formats of the paragraphs.

I work through the process of making them into eBooks, starting over whenever there is an error.

I finally publish the eBook format...


And in the end...

I see only free eBooks go...flying everywhere off the cyber-shelves of various retailers.



So yea...it's a long process that is even HARDER than it sounds.

It's very time consuming.

You think the writing part is hard?

Psssh!

That's the easy part!

The hard part is formatting EVERYTHING, setting up EVERYTHING, drawing EVERYTHING, fixing EVERYTHING, and in the end publishing it to see its copies go nowhere but into nooks and kindles that might just be downloading anything and everything free they can find.


That's not to say I don't have diligent and wonderful fans though!


I argue that I've gotten a following of people who have indeed read my books.

They have taken the time to download or buy the manuscript I poured my heart and soul into before this publishing process.

And in the end, I'm very happy to do it.




I'm just trying to explain that...




IT'S NOT SO EASY AS IT SEEMS TO JUST GET PUBLISHED LIKE THOSE BIG MACHINES!

Look, I'm not trying to whine, but it's coming out that way.

You're all going to have to be patient for your candies.

Because those of you reading War of the Zealot Empire...

You're just dying to know aren't you?

When will book 6 be published?

When will it be done?

I don't know!

I really don't!

Everything is in a huge process of editing.

We did a number of scenes that I feel are much too obscene and would scare you all away...

Not that this series started with pandering to the fans anyways.

But the massive amounts of...ssssstufffff... that is in this book...

Has left me with hours and hours of editing and tearing apart this manuscript.

Every other book has been fine. Once it is written, it gets a quick editing that lasts just a few hours and then it goes off to print.

But this book...



I'll leave it to your imagination what we did before I got my editing gloves on.




So happy reading to you all.

Hope your holiday season is wonderful.

I'm spending it in classes, while Santa is paying a visit to your sleepy home.

And all the while, I'm trying so hard to make your precious book come to life on the page.



Thank you all for reading, and have a wonderful Holiday season!





Wanna know about my books? You could check them all out on Goodreads.

Picking a Segment

Yea…

I’m a bit tentative about releasing a bit of Return of the Outcast…

Considering that up til now we have been pretty racy and open about everything…like a bad mouthed child…but I believe my coauthor and I have gotten at our worst with this particular book.

Cleaning it up has not been so easy, since we have an all-shit-goes rule...

But we don’t want to single out a lot of readers who might be uncomfortable reading too much of that.

I confess that we do not plan on continuing being at this level of racy…in our future books that is.


 But, we felt that it was necessary to establish some things.

Some things are best left unsaid...

But sometimes a story isn’t understood the same if they are left unsaid...

So I plan on posting a segment from Return of the Outcast relatively soon.

But, I am looking for the right piece to show you guys, something that gives you a sign as to what we mean by truly racy, without revealing too much of the story at once.

I don't want to single out readers, but there is a balance to be met, between the art that has been formed with this story and the readers we are aimed at.


It's not necessarily a read for everybody...

No book is.

So, you might like it, you might not.

I'm just saying, look out for a segment from Return of the Outcast coming out. I will be posting that at some point.


It is a matter of what would be best to show you.

Cover Art Release!

Okay, so here it is. We're releasing the cover we'll be using for Return of the Outcast!

It's not yet out of the editing room. We're still working on it. I don't want you guys to have anything less than awesome.

Have patience.

Think...Think...Think... I cannot!

I think...

I think...

Sorry, I got a hiccup in my thought process.

It seems to be happening to me quite often lately.

I almost repeated a scene from Dorm Haze right into the second book, which seems dumb...

So, I need to find my focus and make these mind hiccups go away.

Anybody got a good scare?





LOL

Any hiccup curing ideas? It has to apply to mental...not real hiccups.

You know?

Kay...so anyways...

Now that I remember...what I was talking about...

No...I don't remember...I was thinking about...



Oh right! I was thinking about publication and stuff...because there has been timing issues and hiccups in my brains...

My coauthor and I had hoped to have "Fall of the Honor Guard" published sometime this month...but I am starting to worry about whether this book will even be finished by the end of this month. It is getting quite difficult to finish.

I mean...we only have about three more chapters to go, but it moving very slowly due to time constraints with the rest of our lives and the hiccups happening to our tired minds.

I might have to take a break from writing this summer to rest up and juice up for the fall school semester.









NAH!







You know I cannot resist writing, no more than a nerd can resist reading their favorite novel over the summer vacation.

Besides, my summer vacation will be longer than most Americans' summer vacation will be. My semester won't even start until October.



Sooo...I guess this comes full circle and I am finally reminded of what I started this post for.

Publication dates are...far away...

Since Fall of the Honor Guard is not yet finished, and we are not entirely sure of how long it will take us to finish the last few chapters. (We really really want this final piece to be perfect before we finally publish the entire series.) So we will not be releasing publication dates for a while.

We do not want to mess up, under the possibility that it might take us longer than expected to finish "Fall of the Honor Guard"



So, we still do not know when we will be publishing the last of the "War of the Zealot Empire" series.

We won't publish book 5 before book 4...so it only makes sense that "Vesuvius' Revenge" and "Return of the Outcast" must wait for the completion of "Fall of the Honor Guard" so sorry...

Delaying Publication

It seems to be getting difficult. Delays are happening to the completion of "Fall of the Honor Guard"

I'm getting quite a few messages asking about when this book and the next ones are coming out.

Patience people...

We only started publishing this series last year...sometime around August if I remember correctly.

Most authors have years between each book and we have already published Entangled Hearts, Sins of an Empire and Vesuvius' Rise. And that's just the books I have published with my coauthor.

You guys don't even know what work goes into the publishing part of it all.

It's not just handed over to some expert or something like that...

I do all the work myself.

I format the internal pages...

I make the cover.

I upload every single file.

I create the chapter starters...





In the end, it is more work than just the writing...

We still have quite a few chapters to go, and after it is completed, I will have to format it for publication.

So...

fans...

readers...

random readers passing through my blog...

The publication of Fall of the Honor Guard won't come for quite some time. And it will not be until it is published that we can release publication dates for Vesuvius' Revenge and Return of the Outcast.