Media Blitz!

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

As I sit hear slowly digesting the wonderful meal my lovely bride has cooked today, I thought I'd take a moment to shamelessly plug Foothold on Terra-Bravo!

I've worked on a number of publicity/advertizing approaches for Foothold over the last couple of weeks.

1) I've created a Power Point presentation which is now available at Slideshare.net. --- Link: Foothold on Terra-Bravo Presentation


2) I turned the Power Point presentation into a video which is viewable at:
--- Foothold on Terra-Bravo video on Facebook:
--- Foothold on Terra-Bravo video on YouTube:

3) I joined Twitter to crow...er...tweet about Foothold and my other projects. You can follow me at Jeffrey Fortney@JeffreyFortney.

4) Through December 22nd, we're running a 20% off coupon for Foothold on Smashwords.com.

Regular price: $2.99
Promotional price: $2.39
Coupon Code: DZ58Xhttps://www.smashwords.com/books/view/376242
Smashwords has gotten the ebook out to the following:
--- Barnes and Noble.com
--- Diesel ebooks.com
--- Versent ebooks.com
--- Inktera.com

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Enough for now. I hope you all have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

Stay safe out there!

Jeff

© Jeffrey M. Fortney - 2013 

Another Social Media Joined!

Sorry for the gap in posting. Wish I could say I'd been real busy writing but it wouldn't be true.

So what HAVE I been doing, you may ask? Well...heavy duty work on three projects at work and relaxing, playing, and goofing off at home.

Two of my IFSTA projects are nearing completion so I've been busy with them. Photography is the next step with them. For the third IFSTA project, I'm preparing as many chapters as possible for the committee to review and comment upon while I work on the other two.

I haven't been completely lax on the home front. I have done a little tweaking on the format and approach for Honing Your Instructional Skills to take it from a fire service training approach to a general instructional approach. I've also been developing a video ad for Foothold on Terra-Bravo. Hope to have it ready soon!

I've also been playing some Star Trek Online just to have some fun. The Voth are pretty mean bad guys! If you're on STO, just look for Starfleet Vice Admiral Jay Fort or Romulan Vice Admiral Jafor.

And, we've added a new member to the Fortney Family in the person of a 9-week old yellow lab/fox terrier mix puppy named Ryli.

So which social media have I joined? Twitter! Jeffrey Fortney @ Jeffrey Fortney. (How original!)

Yes, I know I've told folks I'd never do it, but I've been told it's a great way to get the word out about my books, sooo...

Oh, yeah...books! I've generated a coupon for Foothold on Terra-Bravo over at Smashwords.com! 20% off until December 22, 2013. Click on either of the two Foothold links in this post. When checking out, use coupon code DZ58X.
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Be safe!

Jeff
 
© Jeffrey M. Fortney - 2013 

51st!

Wow!

I was so busy of late that I totally missed the fact that my last blog post was my 50th in this series! What have I been so busy with you might ask?

Well, let's see. At work I've completed the following for Company Officer 5th:
- 2nd edits on all chapters.
- Revised the Table of Contents and Chapter Tables of Contents.
- Compiled the Glossary.
- Arranged three photo shoots.

For Chief Officer 5th, I've completed:
- 2nd edits on all but two chapters.
- Revised the Table of Contents and Chapter Tables of Contents.
- Compiled the Glossary.
- Arranged three photo shoots.

For Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting, I've:
- Reformatted all chapters.
- Uploaded two chapters to Workspaces for committee review and committee.
- Got Chapter 3 ready to upload to Workspaces.
- Almost have Chapter 4 ready for upload to Workspaces.

At home, I've:
- Finished the first draft of Crisis on Terra-Bravo and turned it over to Kyle.
- Reformatted and uploaded Foothold on Terra-Bravo to Smashwords.com.
- Posted another Hub on Hubpages.
- Come up with a new design for my desk (to make it a standing desk).
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Stay safe, my friends!

Jeff

© Jeffrey M. Fortney - 2013 

Foothold on Terra-Bravo is Now Available on Smashwords.com!

Foothold on Terra-Bravo may now be purchased from Smashwords.com in a variety of formats.

The formats include:
- HTML
- Epub
- Kindle
- PDF
- RTF
- LRF
- PDB
- Plain Text (download)
- Plain Text (view)

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Y'all be careful out there!

Jeff


© Jeffrey M. Fortney - 2013

The First Draft is Done!

Yes! I've completed the first draft of Crisis on Terra-Bravo! Now to turn it over to Kyle for his thoughts, comments, and edits.

Since Thursday night, I've written 8 pages and 9,205 words. I'm not counting some minor tweaks I've done in a couple of locations to fix some continuity errors I made.
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Keep me in your thoughts later today as I'm going to upload Foothold on Terra-Bravo into Smashwords formatting program. Hopefully, I won't have any formatting problems that would slow down getting the book out on multiple platforms.
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Stay safe!

Jeff

© Jeffrey M. Fortney - 2013

Moving Along Nicely!

Another good day at work and at home. At work, I got the table of contents for one manual drafted and about half drafted on another manual. On the home front, I've completed 4 1/2 more pages and 1,768 words on Chapter 14 of Crisis on Terra-Bravo. I should complete that chapter tomorrow and have the book ready to hand off to Kyle for his work on it.
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And on that note, I bid thee all "Good Night!"

(Oh, yeah...stay safe out there!)

Jeff

© Jeffrey M. Fortney - 2013

Perhaps Tonight IS a Good Night to Write!

A really good night for writing and the muse certainly earned her pay: 4 3/4 pages and 1,623 words in 3 hours! A couple of more nights like this and my initial work on Crisis on Terra-Bravo will be done!

Oh, yeah...my eyes, brain, and back all hurt. Time to close up shop for the night.
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To all my family and friends out there in the digital universe, I bid thee sweet dreams and safe days ahead!

Jeff

© Jeffrey M. Fortney - 2013

And Chapter 12 Bites the Dust!

Not a bad couple of nights work on Crisis on Terra-Bravo. 5 pages (1,985 words) last night and another 3 pages (1,031 words) tonight for a total of 8 pages and 3,016 words!!! And I think I've got my part of Chapter 12 done! With Chapters 13 and 14 yet to be written, the book is coming in at 204 pages and 69,966 words.
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I was hoping for one more sale of Foothold on Terra-Bravo last night to bring our October sales to 14 units and bring our total to 70 units sold thus far (Yeah, I know it's not much, but hey, it's only at one site right now. Let's see how she performs with Smashwords getting us on more platforms!)
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Well, it's time to close up shop for tonight! Stay safe, everybody!

Jeff

© Jeffrey M. Fortney - 2013