This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. So, Starship's Mage: Episode 1 has been out in the wild for a whole week! It's done better than I was afraid it would, and not as well as I hoped, but that's the nature of the experiment. We'll be testing a few marketing techniques along the way to March 15th and the launch of Episode 2. A week out though, I figured it was time for a bit of ... Read more »
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Starship’s Mage
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Starship’s Mage: Episode 1 launched yesterday afternoon. It’s available for $0.99 USD on Amazon here: myBook.to/StarshipsMage1 (the link should take you to the page in your country’s store) and on Smashwords here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/388552 Obviously, Starship’s Mage, as both a serialized novel and my first e-book, is a bit of an ... Read more »
Starship’s Mage Launched!
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Episode 1 of Starship's Mage is now live at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HBX1BAW Some retrospective on the process will follow tomorrow, for now, the gorgeous cover art: ... Read more »
Announcement – Starship’s Mage Serialized Web-Novel
On December 15, 2013, I will be releasing my first ever self-published work on Amazon Kindle. Starship’s Mage is set in a future we would never have predicted: where humanity’s far flung interstellar colonies are tied together by the Protectorate of the Mage King of Mars and the magic of the Jump Mages. Damien Montgomery is a newly-trained member of this elite order. Unable to find a ship to take him on, he joins the crew of a freighter as desperate as he is – without looking hard enough at ... Read more »
Where do we go from here?
So, with another year finished (though I'll admit to not remembering exactly what day I started this blog) I'm spending a bit of time considering on writing and this blog. Over christmas I was moderately successful with my 'add horror' project with ONSET, which I'm hoping to finish by the end of January. Sadly, reworking the first book like this has led me to the conclusion that I actually dislike my long term plan for the series, so I will be sketching an entirely new, probably much ... Read more »
Once Upon A Time
A seventeen year old boy set out to write his second novel. It was better than his first, and some people figured it could be published. It got shopped around a bit by him, and later by an agent, and eventually fell into the category of 'well, this isn't getting published.' Being in that category, an older and wiser agented but unpublished author decided that it would make a good foray into the world of self-publishing by e-book. But, being responsible, occasionally sane, and by gods not ... Read more »