The Business: Star Knight In Full Color!

ArtAnon emailed me some colorized versions of the concept art he did for the Star Knight Indiegogo campaign. You folks ought to see them.

Click through to embiggen them to full-size, where you can see them in their fully glory. That beam lance, by the way, gets some screen time in Book Two.

As this post implies, I'm getting close to launching Reavers of the Void soon. No, not next week, but soon. You'll know soon enough when it's time to send all your friends and family to the Amazon listing to buy a copy of a book dedicated to action, romance, and giant robot combat in that old-school Space Opera way that you otherwise have to look to Japan to give you these days.

In the meantime, I again point you to my colleague Rawle Nyanzi and his Shining Tomorrow which needs the support of readers like you. If you're looking for more indie mecha action to hold you over, and you haven't gotten a copy already, then Brian Niemeier's your huckleberry. Get yourself a copy of Combat Frame XSeed today.

From Rehab: Counting Down to "Reavers" Launch

I'm still in rehab, but nonetheless I'm back at work now that I have my PC in my residency room. I'm going through the manuscript one more time, cleaning up errors as best I can, before I cut the umbilical cord and send this baby off into the world. I have an important orthopedics appointment this coming week, where the test fitting for my prosthetic leg happens, but the final pass is almost done. I believe that I'll accomplish the April launch I originally intended to hit.

Starting next week, I'll resume posting excerpts from Works In Progress. These range in size from a scene to most of a chapter, and from points in time from Book Two to Book Nine; being cooped up. Lore posts that aren't from one of the remaining eight books in the series, or from one of the side stories, won't be put here or at the main blog. Those will be reserved for newsletter subscribers as exclusives hereafter.

Yes, this means that I'll resume newsletter work presently. Subscribers, watch your inboxes.

In the meantime, I urge you to support my fellow #AGundam4Us authors. Rawle Nyazni has his campaign to raise funds for the audiobook version of Shining Tomorrow going on still, which you can find here. Brian Niemeier has Combat Frame XSeed for sale at Amazon now, which you can find here, and he's now posting lore info about the upcoming sequel here at his blog. Together we can Make Mecha Great Again.

Signal Boost: Shining Tomorrow's Audiobook Campaign Launch

I'm spending this post to boost the signal for my colleague Rawle Nyanzi, the author of Shining Tomorrow. He's launched a campaign at Indiegogo to finance the production of an audiobook version of the novel, and I suggest that you entertain the offer. The campaign's perks double as de facto pre-ordering for the book, so don't worry about needing to buy that separately if you back the campaign.

On The Launch For "Reavers of the Void"

I've been out of commission for a while. I go on about that at the main blog here.

Reavers of the Void launches in ebook form soon. I am nervous about this, but also excited. It's the last step, the one where I put it out there and see how well I can do; at that time, I'm going to need all the help I can get from you folks who believe in the project. Reviews, signal boosts, and more will all be necessary to help that book do its best against far more experienced competition. But first, I want to let the algorithm work for me as best it can. Once the ebook is launched, I will begin writing Book Two.

The paperback launch of Reavers will, if I can swing it, come 60 days or so after the ebook launch; I want time to let the algorithm do its thing while I get drafts done, continue my rehabilitation (and get back home), and figure out how to make the paperback version happen I figure 60 days is enough, given my resources and outside concerns, for that to work. If it doesn't, I'll report back; backers at that level, of course, get their copies before everyone else.