Sorry for the somewhat long absence. Julie and I had to take a trip to Southern Arkansas to be with Gary while he had some minor surgery. All is good! The surgery went very well and Gary will be back at school tomorrow! Julie and I had safe travels both ways and got to see Heather, James, Damien, and Aiden while in Camden.
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I did a little writing while there and some more tonight resulting in a total of 10 pages and 3,727 words. Woo hoo!!!
Chapter 11 of Crisis on Terra-Bravo is about 1/2 completed. I actually skipped ahead and wrote ALL of Chapter 15, the final chapter of the book, so that is drafted, if not set in stone. I hope to finish Chapter 11 tomorrow or the next night, then begin work on Chapter 12.
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Kyle and I attended the library's Local Authors Fair yesterday. There were 30 authors present from many genres with a few folks selected to read from their books. We were the only authors present whose book was solely e-published which surprised quite a few folks who stopped by our table.
We had three displays: 1) the cover of our book, Foothold on Terra-Bravo; 2) a synopsis of the book; and 3) the cover of our sequel, Crisis on Terra-Bravo, which is due out in mid-December 2013. We also had 3x5 cards with the cover of Foothold on Terra-Bravo on the front, where it's found, the price, and a QR code linking to the book on the Kindle Store. The back of the cards showed the cover of Crisis on Terra-Bravo and when it's due out. We also had card stock bookmarks with the same images and information on them. The library staff offered to make our remaining bookmarks available at their front desk.
We've picked up three sales since the event so it did us some good. Advertising never hurts!
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As I've mentioned, Kyle and I have decided to take Foothold cross-platform in the very near future. We'll still be available on Kindle, just not exclusive there. By broadening the available audience we hope to pick up more sales. All future Terra-Bravo stories will be available from a variety of sources as will other books I plan to write and publish. More to follow soon!
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Well, that's enough for tonight!
Be safe, everyone!
Jeff
© Jeffrey M. Fortney - 2013
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