As I'm pretty sure everyone reading this knows, Faolan's Pen Publishing Inc. started as me self-publishing, and our catalog is fully enrolled in Kindle Unlimited. There has been a growing amount of media coverage lately of the current issues with scammy books moving into Kindle Unlimited. (Sample article at The Observer). There are two components to this mess that haven't really made it into the general kerfuffle: 1) The situation has dramatically improved from the perspective of the ... Read more »
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Battle Group Avalon Complete
In the middle of February, having just finished the first round edits on Voice of Mars, I started into the third Castle Federation Book: Battle Group Avalon. It was intended to be a 90,000 word novel, and I gave myself 45 days to finish it - until the end of March. 2,000 words a day is a pretty sustainable pace for me at this point, so this seemed a reasonable target. About ten PM on March 31, I finished the book. It is... not 90,000 words. Battle Group Avalon ended up being just over ... Read more »
SF&F Marketing Podcast
I appeared on Lindsay Buroker's Marketing SF&F podcast on Tuesday, talking about science fiction and crossing genres. ... Read more »
Voice of Mars Paperback Released
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Fashionably late, the paperback version of Voice of Mars is now out! Currently available on Createspace and should be available on Amazon shortly. Two weeks in is also a good time to speak to how well Voice of Mars has done, and the simple description is spectacularly. Voice peaked at #180 on Amazon.com, making it my highest ranked book to date. It ... Read more »
Voice of Mars is out Now!
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Voice of Mars is out now! Get it on Amazon. YOU CAN NEVER GO HOME When accusations of piracy and mass murder are laid against his homeworld, Damien Montgomery is sent to resolve the crisis. As counter-accusations fly and an old flame re-enters his life, the newest Hand of the Mage-King of Mars finds himself in the midst of a bloody interstellar shadow ... Read more »
Amazon Exclusivity
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Over the course of the first month of 2016, I experimented with removing the Amazon exclusivity from Hand of Mars (Starship's Mage Omnibus had never been exclusive with Amazon) and running promotions to see if I could get the non-Amazon retailer sales of both books to equal, at least, the December Kindle Unlimited royalties for Hand of Mars alone. I ... Read more »