This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Yesterday, Starship's Mage Episode 3 hit 13,700 words. This is about halfway through the story of Episode 3, which is looking to come in around 25,000 words, so I think I'm safe in saying that Episode 3 is half-way complete and on target for my planned completion date. With revisions and cover art taken into account, I'm eyeballing a June 15, 2014, ... Read more »
General Writing
Self-publishing and the appeal of KDP Select
Both Episodes of Starship's Mage are available on a wide variety of platforms and retailers. Most of these are through a single distributor, but Google, Amazon, and Kobo are each set up individually. Getting all of these to release at the same time and at the same price is complicated. (For example, one of the retailers was set up for pre-orders of Episode 2, with a release date of March 15. It was March 17th, the following Monday, before the book became available). I've received ... Read more »
Starship’s Mage: Episode Two is Out now!
Starship's Mage Episode Two is out! Buy it at any of the links below: Amazon.com (Kindle) Amazon.ca (Kindle) Amazon.co.uk (Kindle) Other Amazon Stores (Kindle) Smashwords (Any Device) Google Play Books (Android devices) Kobo Books (Kobo) Barnes & Noble Nook (Nook) Starship’s Mage is set in a future we would never have predicted: where humanity’s far flung interstellar colonies are tied together by the Protectorate of the Mage King of Mars and the magic of the Jump ... Read more »
Ebooks and channels and glitches, oh my!
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. Firstly, Starship's Mage Episode 1 is now up on Barnes & Noble Nook. It's up on Barnes & Noble without the backcover text, which isn't an issue if you find it from here. According to my distributor, this will sort itself out... soon. There's been a few glitches along the way with the distribution process. Where I directly control the release ... Read more »
Project Wonderful
The odds are that if you're reading this, you followed a Project Wonderful ad-link to this site. Project Wonderful ads for Starship's Mage: Episode 1 have been running across the internet for about 24 hours so far, and I'm watching the results carefully XD So far, quite impressed with the tools available with Project Wonderful and would recommend them to anyone looking to advertise in the more geek-focused corners of the internet. In other news, Starship's Mage is now up on Google ... Read more »
Starship’s Mage up on iBooks
Just a quick announcement to let any iBooks users in the audience know that Starship's Mage: Episode 1 is now available on iBooks! iBooks (iPhone and other Apple Devices) ... Read more »