Amazon Author Pages and Good Reads

Well apparently there is a separate Amazon author page for the UK and the US. Both look exactly the same and do the same thing but for some reason you have to make a separate account for both. I made one for my Amazon ebooks, whether it will do much good I don't know. Personally I prefer the Smashwords author pages, more options there.

Signed up to Good Reads, good site this, seems to be a social networking site for people that read which is ideal for me. Haven't spent too much time on it but looks like a good place to show what genre's and authors you like to read. Will try and list my books on there at some point, looks like all I need is an ISBN which I have.

Ten thousand words into my next story, reckon it will be around 20-30 thousand all up. Enjoying the story and have a rough idea how it will turn out although these things can change as I write.

Anyways, back to it.

Begun new story and about to start reading a new book

Okay I have started my nest story and already have the first few chapters planned out. Started writing the first one today. Will be a sequel to Stolen Fears, and will probably be called Rising Fears. I will keep the characters of Greg, Saul and Michelle and will give Kylie some more space and flesh her out more. I will probably introduce at least one more major character, still deciding some of the details but he will be a rich corporate guy who is influencing certain things in the background. Still working that out but it will come to me as I write.

Finished reading Forge of God, really liked the ideas in that story and for a 1987 book it is still very relevant. There is a sequel to it called Anvil of Stars which I will start reading soon.

Fall of the Lich is doing decently on Smashwords, at the bargain price of free it should do decently. I would be interested to hear what people thought of it so hope to get some reviews, good or bad. Good to see I have had a couple on my other stories, they are always very much appreciated.

Story Finished at Last, Now to Make a Cover

Okay well my next story is done, just need to make a cover for it which I will work on tonight. I also need to think of a title come to think of it. This story is more of a classic fantasy one, I used to read those kind of books a lot when I was younger, not so much anymore admittedly. Still it was fun to write a story of that genre.

Now to think about my next story. Thinking of doing a follow up to Stolen Fears or maybe another sci fi. I liked the setting I used for Bleak Rock and Lonely Child, a lot of options there. I don't know, might take tomorrow off writing to think about it.

Anyways, on to the next tale.

Finished rough draft of new story

Okay well finished the rough draft of my fantasy story. Sitting at 36000 words roughly so after rewrites it should end up around the 40000 mark. Probably be up on Smashwords and Kindle in a couple of days. Still have to make a cover for it but that shouldn't take too long.

Enjoyed writing this one, plenty of room for a sequel to this story, will see if people like it first though.

MMAGoss.com is going well, had it's best day ever yesterday, starting to get noticed a bit now. Learning how to work wordpress has been interesting, spent 2 hours figuring something out that a plugin did in 3 minutes but it's all a learning experience.

Anyways, off to bed, another day awaits tomorrow.

Here is the latest MMAGoss article

http://www.mmagoss.com/2011/08/22/dana-white-looking-at-holding-australian-%E2%80%98the-ultimate-fighter%E2%80%99/

Another writing update

Okay well my current story is approaching novel length, sitting around 17000 words now and still plenty to come. Still really enjoying it which is good, although still thinking of new ideas for future stories.

Had an overload of mma events over the weekend, be nice to take a break this week from that although I will still post updates on my site.

Trying to write 2000 fiction words a day and achieving it relatively easily. At this rate should finish this story in a couple of weeks I reckon. Then comes the laborious process of rereading and correcting. Amazing what silly errors you type out without even realising.

Finished One Story, Started Another and Writing for MMAGoss.com

Well I have been writing more than ever of late, finished my latest novella or novellete, whatever 12000 words is called these days. Started a new story too, already 3000 words in, this one is a high fantasy story, enjoying it so far. Also started my own MMA website. http://www.mmagoss.com/ it seems to be doing okay so far, but then it has only been a couple of days. Lots to learn there.

Here is an article I did recently for it http://www.mmagoss.com/2011/08/06/how-and-why-mma-fighters-cut-weight/

It isn't fiction but I do enjoy writing these articles.

Anyways bed time for me.

Been Busy but Still Writing

Haven't written much fiction the past two days, been busy setting up me new website. I have been an avid viewer and fan of MMA for years now so set up a site for it at MMAGoss.com

Now it is working I can get stuck into finishing this latest story.

Yet another short up

I put up a short story I completed a couple of weeks ago that was rejected by magazines on Smashwords and Scribd for free. I liked this story, bit different to my others. Tried to explore how a child stuck living in space would feel looking down on Earth. Haven't done much other writing yet today but will get on it soon. Don't feel up to it but will try and crank out a few hundred words.

Bleak Rock now up on Kindle

My novella Bleak Rock was published on Kindle today. I wrote this one a month and a bit ago and is around the 10,000 word mark. I was pretty happy with this story in the end, took me a while for me to get a feel for it and it took a few twists and turns before I was satisfied with the story line but I think it worked in the end.

I am still working on my latest story, up to 11,000 words now. Need to start thinking about how long exactly I want this one to go as at the rate it is moving it could get very long. Enjoying writing it though. Was amusing to read an article in New Scientist today relating to the research I did for the story.

False Impression uploaded and Scribd

Stumbled across Scribd today, looks like a youtube for reading. Not sure how popular it is but it was very easy to use and to upload stuff. I put a couple of my short stories up there, My Own Universe, and My Last Train Ride. Will be interesting to see how they go.

Also put up a new short story on Smashwords, False Impression. This was a little fantasy tale I did of a pair of mercenaries who come across more than they bargained for when clearing out a forest of some orcs.

Anyways better try and knock off some more of my latest story.

New Short Story up on Kindle

Well I am happy with my short story I finished last week so I let it rest and went over an older one and rewrote that made a cover and published it on Kindle. A Gnomish Solution should be up soon, my attempt at writing a light hearted fantasy story.

Might have to start looking at how to market self published novels and shorts as I will have three up now and should try and promote myself a bit now.