This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Two years ago today, I launched Starship's Mage: Episode 1 on Amazon. I had high hopes for its success - I quite liked the novella and was very pleased with it. Over the course of it's first three months, however, it sold less than 100 copies. The general fate, so far as I can tell, of any stand-alone e-novella from a new author. I was disappointed ... Read more »
General Writing
Looking backwards
So, due to the wonders of Amazon's payment scheme (what I earned in October is paid at the end of December), I now know what I made in 2015 from writing income. Most notably, October was my best month ever. This continues the trend of the month after the release of each of my Space Opera novels being my best month ever XD While 2015 is not over, this seems as good a place to look back on where things have gone and where they are yet to go. This year, I've put out three novels, and still ... Read more »
Hand of Mars Paperback out
A little late, but better late than never, the Hand of Mars paperback is now out! Buy it on Createspace here, on Amazon here, or it should be up on all online book stores relatively quickly. ... Read more »
Space Carrier Avalon Audiobook!
There's a lot going on on my end, but as I'm currently neck deep in pushing hard on Hand of Mars, I will have to blog about that later! This is just a quick announcement to let you all know that Tantor Media will be releasing the audio book of Space Carrier Avalon on September 15, 2015. They already have a sample clip up on their website. For the moment, Avalon is the only one of my books getting an audiobook, but we'll see how it goes! As with all things in this day and age, I have ... Read more »
Success and the 900lb Gorilla
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit the books page for up to date links and releases. Space Carrier Avalon has been an EPIC success. As of writing this post, with Avalon having been out for about twenty-eight days, it sits at roughly #600 on Kindle. It peaked about #325, and hit the top ten for Space Opera and Military SF on every single English-speaking Amazon site. It is, without any real argument, a bestselling independent novel. Before I say anything ... Read more »
Release Schedule
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. The bottom of the front page has now been updated with a schedule of the planned release dates for 2015. They are as follows: City in the Sky: Late March. Also known as 'Very Soon Now (TM)" Space Carrier Avalon: May or June. I'm aiming for the end of May, but I've got about 25,000 words left to go, plus at least one edit cycle. If it slips into ... Read more »