And Bad Penny is now available in audio
Here’s the link to Audible, and as soon as I get the link to iTunes, I’ll post it here. I think Naramore’s performance is going to please a lot of listeners.
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Servant of a Dark God: Coming October 13, 2009
Tor Books’ production department has moved my book’s release date out one month. I’m getting so antsy to have it hit the stores, but October’s actually a better month, it being closer to the holiday season.
You still might be able to get it earlier if you pre-order. The books actually start shipping in the second half of September. But it takes a few weeks to get them out to all the stores.
New business cards
Devon Dorrity, who helped me put together my covers, just helped me put together some business cards. I’m pretty excited about them. I’m biased, but I think they look awesome.
Servant
Curse
Raveler
You can see here a mockup of how they’ll look. That bit on the back is the Blacksword Books logo.
I’m not sure about the one for Bad Penny. Devon liked it. Any opinions?
Calendar updates
I’ve added a number of entries to the calendar, including three conferences I plan on attending.
I know I’ll be presenting at the first two. The title and description of the League of Utah Writers presentation are:
TITLE: The Secret to Getting Story Ideas
DESCRIPTION: How to stop generating great story ideas by accident and start generating them on purpose, whenever you need them.
I don’t know what I’ll do for LTUE. I might do a repeat of the “The Secret to Getting Story Ideas,” or I might do something on how to write scenes or how genre is the key to plot. Stay tuned!
Date & Time Event Location Notes Right now Writing Office It’s all for you, Dear Reader 2015, Summer Release of Awful Intent, a Frank Shaw novel All major online retail venues The date is not firm. 2015, Aug 28-29 League of Utah Writers Fall Conference Logan, UT League of Utah Writers 2016, Winter Release of Hard Target, a Frank Shaw novel All major online retail venues The date is not firm. 2016, Feb 11-13 Life, the Universe & Everything Provo, UT LTUE website 2016, May LDStorymakers Conference Provo, UT LDStorymakers website 2016, Summer Release of Glory: The Dark God Book 4 All major online retail venues The date is not firm. Writing Update: Awful Intent
Folks, I just finished the first draft of my working outline for AWFUL INTENT. I’m stoked. Lots of research and lots fun and sometimes maddening work to get to this point. Here’s the current version of the summary, which will change.
Southeastern Utah. 30,000 square miles of red-rock desert and wilderness. One of the least populated places in the United States. The perfect place to hide just about anything.
Frank Shaw is just passing through. He was once an elite soldier, trained to see what others want to hide. Then he made some terrible mistakes and fell from grace. Except the old skills never went away: they were only heightened during his time behind bars. Which is why Frank notices the fearful woman in the McDonalds and the killer watching her.
Frank could move on. He’s got a life to put together and a sandwich to buy. But some things are more important than a Big Mac. Frank follows the man who follows the woman, and that one decision leads Frank to a ranch that isn’t a ranch and into a plot of awful proportions.
When Frank and the strong female Sheriff from the small town a number of miles away discover the truth, they try to get back and call for help, but the rancher is on to them and sends a private army out to hunt them down in the wilderness. Frank and the Sheriff will need to use all their combined skills to survive. Because time is running out, and thousands of lives are at stake.
My agent got back to me on BAD PENNY. I will be focusing on some tweaks over the next two or three weeks. Then we need to get that moving forward.
Finally, I know some of you are wondering about the DARK GOD series. And why wouldn’t you be with my earlier post? Things haven’t been finalized. Soon, Grasshopper. Soon.
Audio version of Servant available Aug 2nd!
August 2nd is the date! The listing is up on Audible now. It appears the preview will be available until it goes live. Very excited about this.
New series on writing coming next week
I believe that there are three things you need to know to write stories. The better you know them, the better and more stories you’ll be able to write. Those three things are:
1. What stories do, i.e. what you’re trying to do as an author.
2. The principles of how character, setting, problem, plot, and text work to do those things.
3. The principles of coming up with and developing stories.
About this time last year I wrote my series on the key conditions for creating reader suspense, which went into depth on things 1 and 2. And I’ve written a bunch of other blogs on those topics. This year I’m going to be doing one on the key principles of getting and developing killer story ideas. I’ll be presenting it in a shortened form at this year’s League of Utah Writer’s roundup on Saturday (see my calendar for more details). One neat thing about this series is that I will have a number of other authors illustrate the principles with their own work. When learning this type of stuff, I don’t think we can’t get enough concrete examples. Keep your eyes open. I think it’s going to be a good one.
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Yoo Hoo! Checked the sample @ audible -you are spot on: Mr. Naramore has a great reading style and voice; very engaging. I was sold. So i immediately got the book.
** The terrific reviews didn’t hurt any 🙂
As i’ve not read Bad Penny yet, I am looking forward to a great story -read to me- during breaks, lunch, at night, etc.
Thanks for continuing to keep us up-to-date re progress during this journey, John. Regards.
Awesome.
Hum. I’ll look into that.
Here’s Amazon’s statement on it.