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Marketing the Story – free promo
I was unexpectedly unwell at the same time that the two days of free promo kicked in, so I didn't get to push it, nor to ask those getting a free copy to give me feedback, so I'll just need to hope that some people do. Certainly, if I get a book for free I'll write a review, as I did for Farewell Horizontal (although I quite often write reviews anyway). Anyway, the result was that for the 48 hours that Exodus: Mike's Thread was free, 6 Brits and 127 Americans (or at least people living in those areas) downloaded it. So that means that, I hope, 133 people have read my story. That's a good start and probably more than I hoped without having pushed it much. The next step is to finish off my Maths TMA and when I've made…
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Short Story – Exodus: Mike’s Thread by James Kemp
I've made a short story from my NaNoWriMo 2012 event available as a Kindle book, which is available from Amazon. Exodus: Mike's Thread tells part of the story from the point of view of one of the characters, it isn't his whole story, but tells a large chunk of it and ends on an appropriate point. The gist of the story is that Mike is an officer in the US Space Command, and one of the insiders in a conspiracy within the US military to circumvent the inconvenient parts of civilian control. He tells his story in the first person to the interviewer after the events. The rest of the story is still in for editing, although I won't release more of it until I've got through some more of my open university maths course, I've got some catching up to…
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NaNoWriMo – the end
So November is finished, although my draft novel isn't. I managed to write 44,463 words during November for it, which isn't quite the magic 50k needed to claim a win. see for how my writing progress panned out. I really enjoyed this process and it wasn't as difficult as it first appeared. Some of it is helped by the regular pep talk broadcast mails it sends out, and also the stats counter tells you how many words you need to average every day that you have left to hit the magic 50k. However the pep talk mails give you a more human view of it, and I found them to be good encouragement to keep going. So why, with all that encouragement and sign posting, did I not manage to hit fifty thousand words? Well I nearly did, and this was…
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NaNoWriMo
After seeing some posts about National Novel Writing Month (AKA NaNoWriMo) I decided that I may as well give it a go and see if I can just sit and write stuff for the month. I don't realistically expect to hit the target 50,000 words, but thought I'd see how it went. There are times when I can write prolifically, although those are few and far between these days, what with family life, work and all the other things. However if you don't try you can never So if you want to see how I'm getting along look here UPDATE: It's taking shape, there are a dozen characters, a mad US President and the threat of nukes as well as space ships, genetically modified people and a moon The Moon as seen by an observer from Earth. Some people claim…