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Blog postThe People’s Necromancer will be released on May 7, 2018. The second book The Dark Paladin will be released on June 4, 2018. For a very limited time, each of these books will be 99 cents. Due to advertisements slated in June, the People’s Necromancer is going to be 99 cents for a few weeks into June. However, I’m not going to make any guarantees about how much longer than that the price will hold.
For those who managed to pick up a copy of The People’s Necromancer, this will be a slig -
Blog postGuillermo Del Toro has had a string of questionable movies, but I believe I’ve watched them all since Pan’s Labyrinth (which is a fantastic movie, btw, definitely check that out). My wife was really, really interested in seeing this movie, and so, without looking into it at all, we went to our first theater movie of 2018 to see “The Shape of Water.”
I really, really recommend just going to see it without seeing any spoilers. It’s not that the story is especially surprising. It’s mostl -
Blog postMy fourth novel, The People’s Necromancer, has been released exclusively in the Wrath and Ruin box set, and our promotions and social media outreach has been highly successful. During a two-and-a-half-month preorder, we sold 7780 units on Amazon, 667 on B&N, and 372 on iBooks. That was enough to make it on the USA Today Best Seller list on its own. However, we did really well during our release week as well thanks to some focused BookBub ads, other ads with pretty much every major indie a
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Blog postTitle: The People’s Necromancer
Purchase: Exclusive in Wrath and Ruin Box Set (ebook: Amazon | Apple | Nook/B&N | Kobo)
Series: The Age of Magic (1)
Genre: High Fantasy
Release: January 2nd, 2018 (Release Week @ 0.99, after which is at the mercy of the publisher). Edit: The box set is coming down April 19th. The book will be re-released on May 7th
Word count: 60,000
Status: Preorder
Maps: Surdel (Black & White | Color)
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Blog postThis is probably the most conflicted I’ve ever been leaving a theater. Usually, my reviews are either overwhelmingly positive (4+ stars out of 5) or just irredeemable (1-2). It’s rare for me to really give anything a medium grade. However, for Star Wars The Last Jedi, I find myself feeling that way on the first viewing. Let’s talk about the positives first.
I loved the character development for most of the main characters. Kylo Ren totally redeems himself as a villain here. He’s compl -
Blog postThe People’s Necromancer is finished and set for release on all vendors as part of the Wrath and Ruin box set. 24 exclusive sci-fi and fantasy novels from award-winning and USA Today Bestselling authors for just 0.99 during preorder. This is a limited edition set that is only going to be available for sale for 3 months (down by April). We are trying to get this out to as many people as we can. Our goal is to hit New York Times Bestselling status, which requires tens of thousands of sales (we’
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Blog postSo, I’ve been busy with drafting the second novel in the Age of Magic series, but not so busy that I haven’t immersed myself in several Netflix series this month. I dove into several binges, but I’m going to focus this review on the Westerns. I fell in love with Westerns with Sergio Leone’s body of work, and I’ve branched into many Westerns since then. If Westerns are a guilty pleasure of yours, then we’re cut from a similar cloth, and I may have some series recommendations for you to look ou
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Blog postNow that I’m finally moving on to a completely different genre and series, I thought I would go back and address some of the most common questions I’ve gotten from others and myself, the origins of the series, what’s going on, and why I’ve been disappointed in the series. If you have other questions that I don’t cover here, feel free to comment or send me an email (rexjameson @ gmail.com).
I want to make very clear that I do not intend to keep writing the Primal Patterns series, espec -
Blog postAfter the really impressive showing with the standalone Wonder Woman movie by Patty Jenkins, my wife and I were really looking forward to Justice League. How excited were we? We decided to organize a family movie day with relatives visiting us for Thanksgiving, and we took the time out of our PTO to watch this movie with my brother-in-law. My other relatives went to see Murder on the Orient Express (which is good, btw, and very faithful to Agatha Christie–worth seeing, but Jenny and I had alr
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Blog postFirst, the obvious. My wife and I love Stranger Things. Season 2 might have even been better than Season 1, and we’re very much looking forward to Season 3.
Demogorgon in Stranger Things Season 1 (Photo: Aaron Sims Creative)
However, there’s one thing that’s been bothering me about the mythology surrounding the show, and it revolves around “Demogorgon”. The reason why this warrants a blog post right now is because Demogorgon is not only a specific Dungeons and Dragons referenc -
Blog postI'm still here, folks! I'm back to writing, as I get time, and my current focus is on Cold Winter, the first book of The Winter Phenomenon. I added another 4k+ words this weekend, revised some of the earlier chapters, and also drafted a new book blurb for the book and series. What do you think?
Cold Winter (The Winter Phenomenon, Book 1)
A biological apocalypse has gripped the Earth, and mankind hangs on by a thread in the last human bastion of Safe Haven. The Earth is -
Blog postSo, I sat down tonight after work and typed so furiously and consistently that within a few hours, I had written over five thousand words! And in what I can only hope is a reasonably good addition to a story, no less! What an amazing feeling!
It's one of those scenes in the Winter Phenomenon that I had been pondering on for a week or two, just waiting for the right time and feeling, and it kind of just happened--despite the lure of Netflix and HBO and whatever else usually grabs hol -
Blog postTo celebrate the first anniversary of Lucifer's Odyssey, I decided to do something for fans. My first novel has been downloaded from Amazon and other outlets tens of thousands of times (most of these during free promotions) in the past year, and the feedback from this has been overwhelmingly positive. However, there is one recurring piece of feedback that I hear--a sort of lament--that I wanted to do something about.
The first three books of the Primal Patterns series describe a sho -
Blog postThere is nothing harder to watch than a promising author ruining his career. This past weekend, that author was Carroll Bryant, and I felt like a blog post was in order to discuss what his story means for myself and the rest of the independent author community. Before I go over the lessons, let me first recite the legend.
Carroll Bryant is an independent author of YA fiction who has written three books, and up until July 2012, he had established a decent rapport with readers, as evi -
Blog postBack when I first started using KDP Select, I used the Squidoo list by theinformationlady to promote my KDP Select promotion periods. I have had some pretty lousy results from Select recently, and I decided to revisit this post and try to ferret out the proper way to do this. Here is my current process for promoting KDP Select titles:
Step 1: Make sure you have reviews BEFORE you settle on your promotion dates
Shortly after I published The Goblin Rebellion, I scheduled -
Blog postIntro
For those who aren't familiar with KDP Select, it is a program on Amazon that trades exclusive distribution of an eBook for three months for 1) 5 days worth of free promotion (e.g., your book goes free for 5 days), 2) enrollment in the KDP borrowing program which rewards each borrow with a percentage of the 500k-700k pot of money for all enrolled in the KDP Select program, and 3) possibility of better exposure with the Amazon algorithms (unverified).
I removed my -
Blog postLobbyists for the entertainment industry have convinced Congress to create two bills called SOPA and PIPA that could trounce on creativity and innovation on the internet. Because they give so much power to Congress to regulate the internet, these bills, if passed, would give corporate entities unprecedented power to sue, issue takedown notices, and block internet access to anyone they feel is limiting their profits in the guise of "copyright infringement" or "insert random reason
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Blog postWhen Amazon announced KDP Select a month or two ago, it caused the kind of sensation and intrigue that only Amazon can have in the book world right now. For those of you unfamiliar with the program, let me lay out the pros and cons, with the cons being first:
Pros:Increased exposure through promotional efforts by AmazonIncreased exposure through borrows adding "purchases" to move your book up the ranksBorrows are converted to dollars at the end of the month depending on yo -
Blog postIt's been a rough past four months for writing fiction. I had my dissertation defense back in December, and dozens of conference paper deadlines, presentations, job interviews, and dissertation proposal and defense writing projects spread across the past few months, and the deadlines coming up are even tighter and more frequent. This month alone, I have three papers due in the middle of the month.
Despite the pressure (or maybe because of it), I've managed to finish the first draft -
Blog postSo, just out of curiosity, what book medium do you feel is the best edition? Electronic media that is searchable, indexable, does not degrade over time, and is easy-to-backup? Paperbacks? Hardcovers?
Luckily for all of us, the US Copyright Office has a handy priority list for what is a best edition for copyright purposes. In fact, they even have a legal definition of best edition embedded into US law. "The ‘best edition’ of a work is the edition, published in the United States -
Blog postToday, I received my 10th Amazon review for Lucifer's Odyssey, and amazingly enough it was five stars. For those authors out there who are curious how I did it, I've got an easy answer for you: LibraryThing giveaways.
My sales have been low, but my downloads have actually been decently high for a first-time author with no fanbase. To date, LibraryThing readers have downloaded 157 out of the ~190 books that I offered in giveaways in September and October. This comes out to about 82% -
Blog postIt's been a busy month. Wedding coming up. Dissertation proposal is right around the corner (I'm at 63 pages), and I've still managed to add some weight to The Goblin Rebellion. It's definitely on the backburner. Life thankfully keeps on going. I say thankfully because if I was depending on writing for my income I would be in deep trouble :D!
I'm dropping Lucifer's Odyssey to 0.99 to coincide with a banner I'm doing at Kindleboards on October 11th. Other stuff going on with writing? -
Blog postSo, I've been patiently waiting for Smashwords to finally distribute my free story collection to Barnes and Noble. I've been checking every day several times a day, and yesterday, Eureeka!!
Only, someone else beat me to it. Apparently, within 2-3 hours of the 11,000 word collection going live, someone had read it and given it two stars. Then, within 2 hours of that, another person gave it a scathing 1 star review--one of those that lamented the time spent reading the free work.
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Blog postHello everyone,
The paperback is out for Lucifer's Odyssey, and boy have I learned some very valuable lessons from the process--and I do mean VALUABLE. Others who go through Create Space will probably have a different experience as CS is a lot more friendly with submitting revisions.
First, there's something I guess you should understand about Lightning Source. It's a business that seems setup around making you pay a lot of money upfront for setting up a title, and it c -
Blog postI have an article up on my reader blog about my free short story collection. My editor Derek Prior got the collection back to me in August, but with the release of Lucifer's Odyssey, it took me a bit of time to get the tertiary editing done and format it for Amazon and Smashwords.
The Amazon edition is still $0.99 while I wait for them to pricematch. The Smashwords edition is free for at least the next couple of months. So, if you like a well edited clash between angels and demons, -
Blog postWith the release of Lucifer's Odyssey, readers get a chance to follow the Crown Prince of Chaos across the multiverse--from Earth to Chaos, the Goblin Realm, and even part of a primal pattern (a projector of universes). His journey may cover trillions of light years and hundreds of pages, but he's also a fictional character. Let's get real for a minute.
I want to hear more about your life journey. Make me laugh. Make me cry. Make me want to reach out and give you a hug or a high fiv -
Blog postLucifer's Odyssey
The release of the first novel of the Primal Patterns series is coming up on September 1st, and reviewers are already taking a look at the advanced review copies and posting sneak peaks. For readers curious about the setting of this series, check out the breakdown at my Reader Blog.
As a result of the review on eBookworm.us, I plan on adding the following Author's Note to the book to prepare the reader for the first book. What are your thoughts? Will t -
Blog postIntro
Five years ago, if I would have posted a blog entry that claimed the New York Times Bestseller List would be frequented by self-publishers, many in the publishing industry would probably have ignored me or sent me a hand-typed rebuke in a self-addressed envelope. But times, they are a changing. Today, big names in self-publishing like John Locke, Amanda Hocking, Bob Mayer, JA Konrath, Blake Crouch, David Dalglish, Victorine Lieske, and Courtney Milan are turning heads in the p -
Blog postThe Rex Files might be moving to a new location. But first, I need your feedback.
Do you find it easier to follow a Blogger blog or a WordPress blog? There has been some debate on the Kindleboards forums, and I am not sure if I should be moving everything to the WordPress or posting Writer Information here and maybe Reader Information there?
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Blog postI've added information on a new novellette (10,000 words) called "Angels vs Demons: Perspectives of a Violent Afterlife" to the site. I expect the novellette to launch on Kindle and Nook on October 1. The information for the novellette is included below:
Title: "Angels and Demons: Perspectives of a Violent Afterlife"
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Summary:
Heaven and hell are vying for human souls in vortices between humanity and the afterlife. When Luci -
Blog postThere are dozens of blogs out there for reviewing sci-fi and fantasy books, and I've trended towards a few favorites that I plan on revisiting frequently. In no particular order, here are some of the blogs I visit:
Frida Fantastic(Link)
Frida Fantastic has been a review site that I've frequented since I first found it months ago. She uses a five-star scale, and can be pretty brutally honest, which you'll find is a trend I appreciate. She doesn't just do book reviews and -
Blog postMy editor and I are in the final stages of our substantive edit, and we've managed to set a date for the release of my debut novel Lucifer's Odyssey on September 1, 2011. We hope to have advanced copies sent to book reviewers on August 14th at the latest. If you are a book reviewer for speculative fiction or independent authors, please send me an email at rexjameson@gmail.com, and we will add you to the reviewer list for the early copies.
Title: Lucifer's Odyssey
Genre: Specul -
Blog postSo, my flash fiction "Don't Mess with the Meadow" made it into the Pink Snowbunnies in Hell Flash Fiction Anthology, and I'm totally stoked at my very first publication anywhere! What you may not have known was that Jeanne Miller and I also worked on a flash fiction together and it unfortunately did not make it in.
Thanks so much for working with me, Jeanne. It was a pleasure talking and working with you, and I hope we can figure out a way to collaborate on something again -
Blog postWe're wrapping up the 12th chapter soon for Lucifer's Odyssey in the redraft, and the story is looking great. I have put the first three chapters up on the Novels page, so if you are wanting a sneak peak at what is in store, feel free to check it out. We're thinking this first book will be out by September, now, instead of my initial projected dates. Sorry for the delay.
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Blog postLucifer's Odyssey is currently on Chapter 9, and things are going really well. I've also submitted a flash fiction to Debora Geary's Pink Snowbunnies in Hell Flash-Fiction Anthology.
As for this blog, I've updated the Lucifer's Odyssey novel page with the current results of the rewrite up to Chapter 3, but I hadn't written an official post about it. It doesn't look like I'm going to hit my original July 1st target. August 1st is more realistic.
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