You can get autographed copies of Artemis Rising and Celestial Accord at the Southlake Spring Festival Saturday.
Since I have 5 reviews on Amazon now, I started an advertising campaign. Best case, the advertising is paying for itself by this time in May. If it is, that should get me more reviews and make it easier to get more sales from advertising. If I stay on it and keep testing different ads and placement, hopefully I can get sales up to the point where they are paying for editing and covers by this time next year. If I can do that, maybe by the middle of 2027 I can be an overnight success…
Created a new character this week that will probably be making appearances in upcoming books other than Antarctic Honeymoon. Clio – a librarian mech built by Thoma and later transferred to Eleanor. So Eleanor will be mommy to two mechs, Clio and Argos. If she starts naming her children after Greek legends, I think Walter is going to have a fit…
I also added a new “race” to the setting, the Tuarélai. They were the inhabitants of aetheric forests on Vulcan, where liftwood (properly known as aetherwood) grew wild. Between the aetherwood trees and the naturally occurring leukos gems underground, the forests had enough ambient aetheric energy to be “magic”. Now that opens up a whole bunch of story possibilities…
The reason I created the Tuarélai is I needed them to create Aira. She’s going to be a really cool character to write. I didn’t intend for her to look like an elf, but it kind of works…
In the summer of 1891, everyone in Washington D. C. with enough power to make policy, wasn’t enduring the humidity of a swamp at the confluence of two rivers along the border between Virginia and Maryland. President Harrison went so far as to declare Congress House in New Jersey “the Summer White House.” That drastically altered one of the chapters in Antarctic Honeymoon. Make it more interesting as well…
I got to the point where George Washington Carver enters the story. He is the botanist I admire more than any other and probably way underappreciated, even today. I’ve taken to making character entries in the lore bible and he has one now.
Antarctic Honeymoon is progressing. It is a stand-alone Walter & Eleanor story taking place the same time as the first chapters of Selene Unchained. Chapters this week:
Family Planning
Return to the Moon
Overcast Sunshine
The Search
Rules of Proximity
American Geographic Society
The Liftwood Embargo
Washington D.C.
Arkansan Botanist
Word count is 27,830. Aim is 71,000-78,000.
Artemis Rising is #4,469 in Space Exploration Science Fiction ebooks, #3,452 in Alternate History Science Fiction, and #6,512 in Exploration Science Fiction. If you don’t have yours yet, you can get the paper version here or the kindle version here. There is also an audiobook version here. Five customer reviews now (thanks Rick). I still need more so other readers can find it, but I may start promoting with these five – if you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here.
Celestial Accord isn’t ranked yet. If you don’t have yours yet, you can get the paper version here or the kindle version here. One review so far. If you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here.
Mirim’s First Christmas is live. You can find the paper version here or the kindle version here. I’m still working on getting free versions to be available on my website.
Celestial Accord copy-edit is available now. The Audible AI audiobook is also available.
If you want to get early access to Book 3 chapters, write a nice review for Artemis Rising or Celestial Accord on Amazon or Goodreads, and email me that you’ve done it.