This is an area that I have little or no experience in. Promoting your work. I love to write, but I’m not very good at the business end of things. That includes writing timely blogs and other things, like doing up nice artwork to make things look good and interesting.
What is needed the most right now is someone who is experienced at marketing that would like to take on the role of promoting my material. You should be warned that this is a non-paying, volunteer thing, at least until something is published and some money is made.
I’m also looking for beta-readers – people interested in reading my stories and giving feedback on them, in exchange for free copies of my stories when they are published.
Another area I’m no good at is artwork and fancy fonts that go along with it. Is there anyone out there that can draw medieval scenes, elves, dragons, spaceships, airplanes and that sort of stuff? If you’re interested in supplying cover art and web page graphics, go to the contact me page and drop me a note and we can talk.
Since this blog is titled promoting your work, I guess I should try and do a little bit of that.
The first novel I wrote was The Adventures of Rakta, which is Book 1 of the Traveler Series. It is 827 pages in PDF novel format and is a sci-fi fantasy book involving a man who dies and doesn’t go to heaven or hell, but the neutral path, where they maintain the balance between good and evil between all the known worlds.
My Ashby and Barnett series is designed to be a continual series that is of the dungeons and dragons genre. One book has been written, but it’s a bit short on pages, weighing in at 131 pages at present. It is a nice short read and introduces the characters Ashby (a half elf) and Barnett (his familiar cat). Book 2 is in the process of being written, picking up where book 1 left off.
The Rangers is another continuing series, which is a fast action paced story about humans living near the center of the galaxy in medieval times, who discover flight and later, the fact that they are about to be sucked up by a black hole, with the series covering their struggle to survive and get off of their planet before they are doomed. Currently I have two of these books written with the outline for the third more or less in place.
The Rangers is the backstory for The Rebel Knights of the Free World, which a date entry based story that takes place over many years, starting in 1935. These books are aviation based, with science fiction, fantasy, romance, suspense and action. They are long reads. Book 1 is 870 pages and Book 5, which I just finished, is 1,023 pages. They are long, but have lots of flying, spaceflight, drama, entertainment and action. The books feature points of view from several different characters as well and are for the most part historically accurate as the story moves through time as the Rebel Knights of the Free World work to save mankind from being doomed. The entire Rebel Knights story has been written and has gone through two revisions and is currently going through the third, which is much more expansive and dynamic than the last and is certainly much more entertaining.
Well, there you have it. Those are the stories I’ve been working on and writing over the past few years, which I enjoy doing, and my hope is that one day I’ll be able to share them with the world as published books, whether they are self-published or picked up by a publishing company.
So if you’re interested in checking them out, sign up to be a beta-reader and see what you think. If you have the skill sets needed to take these stories to the next level with marketing, proofing, editing, graphics or something else, drop me a message via the contact us page and let’s talk.