Reminder: Book Launch for Evermore: Call of the Nocturne

Yes. We have posters now.Quick reminder that the book launch for my novel, Evermore: Call of the Nocturne, will be happening in less than two weeks time. On Tuesday, February 12th, please join me at 7 PM to help me celebrate the occasion. There will be snacks, drinks, a reading. Paperback copies of Evermore: Call of the Nocturne are now available for sale. More details below.Evermore: Call of the Nocturne Book LaunchWhere: Black Squirrel Books, 508 Bank Street, Ottawa, ONWhen: Tuesday, February 12th at 7 PMSnacks and beverages will be served.By invitation only so please RSVP by dropping me a comment below!

Evermore: Call of the Nocturne Book Launch

I'm proud to invite everyone to the official book launch for Evermore: Call of the Nocturne! I'm going to hold it at Black Squirrel Books in Ottawa's Centretown on Tuesday, February 12th at 7 PM. Come join the fun and help me celebrate with snacks, drinks and maybe even a reading. Paperback copies of Evermore: Call of the Nocturne will be available for sale. More details below.Evermore: Call of the Nocturne Book LaunchWhere: Black Squirrel Books, 508 Bank Street, Ottawa, ONWhen: Tuesday, February 12th at 7 PMSnacks and beverages will be served.By invitation only so please RSVP by dropping me a comment below!Location on Google Maps:View Larger Map

Christmas Promotion: E:CotN Kindle Edition will be free from December 24-26

 As part of the KDP Select program on Amazon, I am given five days every three months where I can promote the Kindle Edition of Evermore: Call of the Nocturne by giving it away for free. I am proud to announce that the next three promotional days will all be in a row.  On Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day,  Evermore: Call of the Nocturne Kindle Edition will be available for download free of charge from the Kindle Store. If you get an e-reader or tablet for Christmas, what better way to enjoy it then by reading a free copy of Evermore: Call of the Nocturne?. Did I mention that it's free? Merry Christmas.The Christmas promotion will start on Monday, December 24th at Midnight Pacific Standard Time and continue until Wednesday, December 26th at 11:50 PM Pacific Standard Time. You can find Evermore: Call of the Nocturne Kindle Edition on the Kindle Store.

Evermore: Call of the Nocturne Paperback Edition Is Now Available for Sale!

After years of writing, years of editing and months of self-publishing tribulation, I am proud to announce that Evermore: Call of the Nocturne is now available for purchase as a paperback. Finally! After buying Adobe Acrobat Professional and recreating the pdf files, I was finally able to create a paperback edition that didn't have any strange errors. The book is finally done. You can purchase it online at the Lulu Store.Please buy my book.I can't describe the elation that I feel right. It's like a great weight has lifted itself off of my skull. It took a long time but it is finally done. Thank you to everyone who followed me in this long and arduous process. I really hope that all of you enjoy the novel.My next step is to make it available on the Amazon book store and then to organize my official book launch. I'll be posting the details here soon. I hope that all of you can make it. Thank you once again for your support on this long journey. Now, I going to go grab myself a beer.WOOHOO!:)

National Novel Writing Month Promotion

Hi everyone. Sorry for the lack of posts this month but I have been deeply embedded in this years National Novel Writing Month (#nanowrimo). I'm 47,000 words in with three days so unless something goes wrong (fingers crossed), I'm going to be a winner! (50,000 words in 30 days). To celebrate NaNoWriMo, I'm going to offer Evermore: Call of the Nocturne Kindle Edition for free on Saturday, December 1st for all of the contestants or any others that want a free e-book.Evermore: Call of the Nocturne Kindle Edition is available now for purchase on the Amazon Store.

National Novel Writing Month

Sorry for going dark for a month. Things have been quite busy. The paperback version of Evermore: Call of the Nocturne has hit a little bit of a snag. Apparently, creating pdf manuscripts using Apple's Pages software is terribly bad idea. Apparently, it creates errors in the pdf document that don't show up until the paperback is printed! Sigh. Thankfully, the nice folks at Lulu support have graciously converted my manuscript and allowed me to upload it again. Once I get an updated cover from Jordan (there was a slight spacing issue that caused the title to get almost cut off on the original print run), we'll be good to go to finally publish the paperback. Once that's done, I'll be free to organize my book launch party.In the meantime, I'm taking advantage of National Novel Writing Month to get a quick start to my next project. Entitled Other than I, my goal is to get the first 50,000 words of it down by the end of November. That's about 1600 words a day. Typically, my goal has been to write 1000 words a day and I've always found that excruciating. Thus far, it's been going well. After the first 10 days, I have written 16,750 words, making me ahead of schedule. It's a wonderful challenge and a great excuse to get off your butt and finally start that project you've always been thinking about.Well, wish me luck. This novel is going to write itself.

My Book Has Arrived!

As part of the publication process for paperbacks with Lulu, I wanted to buy my own copy first before opening it up to the general public so that I could make sure that there weren't any errors. I ordered it off Lulu four days ago and today it arrived!As you can see on the right, the book comes in a nice rectangular box. Cute.Cue the images below to see what was inside.

The front cover in plastic

The title page

The start of a random chapter

The back cover

And finally the spine

After a short review, I must say I'm impressed. It looks great. It feels great. It looks and feels like a real book! I'll need to do a more thorough review before I make it available for the public. That said, WOW! This completely makes the thousands of hours that I poured into this project worth it. Now it's time to start another one.

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Maybe tomorrow. :)