Now that Trent and Jason is available, let's talk about what's coming up next!
As it turns out, I've written a mystery story. Not, as I mentioned earlier, a murder mystery. The world of ITL is filled with so many cialexes that someone running around killing people would have the main characters all distraught, and it would lead to more outraged speech-making than hot wild sex.
The Mystery of the Golden Goddess takes place post-Purple, pre-Rainbow. Orinakin and Bade are off on a diplomatic mission, and they bring Rini along for fun. Orinakin plans to make a quick stop to get some people to sign a treaty before he takes Rini to visit some Leetesrian family members. It'll all be a quick, simple little excursion.
Or not.
See, back in the day, there was some old country (OC) that got into a bunch of strife and stuff. It split from one country into three, but it had some fancy super-important statue (FSIS), and the OC was worried that something would happen to the FSIS in the middle of all of the war and violence and hard times. So the leaders of the OC handed the FSIS to Kudorin for safekeeping.
Now the current rulers from the OC and their neighbors (who were sucked into the war and violence and hard times) are meeting up to sign a treaty. Everyone agrees to peace, the OC gets its precious FSIS back, everyone wins!
Except that before Orinakin can hand the FSIS over, it sort of disappears.
Oops!
Now Orinakin has to find the FSIS before the treaty falls apart. You know how Orinakin is, he'd get all upset and stuff if war broke out again.
That description of events didn't sound very sexy, did it? NEVER FEAR! I managed to cram sex and romance into this story JUST FOR YOU because I know how much you enjoy it. You will get mystery and drama, as you would expect, but you will also get sex and romance, because when you come to Matthew Haldeman-Time, you get the full package.
Hmm. That sounded kind of dirty. Let's leave it that way.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
E-books
If all goes according to plan, everything I publish on Amazon will eventually be available for the Kindle. Please make note of the word "eventually" in that sentence. As you'll notice, it's taken me roughly 80 thousand years to get five books on Amazon. It would be nice if the Kindle stuff would be up next month. It's just as likely to get there sometime in the year 2025.
I do understand that many of you would like a paperless version, and I thank you for your support! I'm glad that you want to read my work in any form. But in honest answer to the question of whether my work will be available in e-book form, all I can say is "yes" and "not immediately."
I do understand that many of you would like a paperless version, and I thank you for your support! I'm glad that you want to read my work in any form. But in honest answer to the question of whether my work will be available in e-book form, all I can say is "yes" and "not immediately."
Thursday, May 3, 2012
New fiction!
NEW FICTION! HOORAY!
Trent and Jason
If you've poked around my site, you already know Trent and Jason from their two short stories, "Incredible" and "Stupid Question." Jason is moody and irritable and antisocial, Trent's wholesome and athletic and popular, and now they're in love.
Aw, how sweet.
In their book, you'll get the two original short stories plus five NEW short stories with sex and romance and fancy things like character development, or something? I don't know, I was distracted by the sex.
It's up now at CreateSpace, and it'll be on Amazon in the next few days.
Diamond worked hard on the cover, so please take a moment to admire it before jumping in to read!
Thank you for your support! We're working on the cover for the ITL mystery now, so that should be out soon!
Trent and Jason
If you've poked around my site, you already know Trent and Jason from their two short stories, "Incredible" and "Stupid Question." Jason is moody and irritable and antisocial, Trent's wholesome and athletic and popular, and now they're in love.
Aw, how sweet.
In their book, you'll get the two original short stories plus five NEW short stories with sex and romance and fancy things like character development, or something? I don't know, I was distracted by the sex.
It's up now at CreateSpace, and it'll be on Amazon in the next few days.
Diamond worked hard on the cover, so please take a moment to admire it before jumping in to read!
Thank you for your support! We're working on the cover for the ITL mystery now, so that should be out soon!
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Guys in Cars
Hooray! Guys in Cars!
It's up on CreateSpace now and should be on Amazon in a few days.
Thanks to Diamond for the new covers for Guys in Cars, Guys in College, and Off the Record. I'll keep working on updating images and links.
Diamond's working on the cover for Trent and Jason now. (Yeah, we've ended up going with Trent and Jason as the title.) You know what that means? NEW FICTION FOR YOU! It's taken way too long to move my existing work to Amazon, but now we're getting into the new stuff, and that means HAPPINESS FOR EVERYONE.
Thank you for your patience! Trent and Jason will be here soon. And then the ITL mystery, I hope. And then A Suitor's Tale (fingers crossed). Hooray!
It's up on CreateSpace now and should be on Amazon in a few days.
Thanks to Diamond for the new covers for Guys in Cars, Guys in College, and Off the Record. I'll keep working on updating images and links.
Diamond's working on the cover for Trent and Jason now. (Yeah, we've ended up going with Trent and Jason as the title.) You know what that means? NEW FICTION FOR YOU! It's taken way too long to move my existing work to Amazon, but now we're getting into the new stuff, and that means HAPPINESS FOR EVERYONE.
Thank you for your patience! Trent and Jason will be here soon. And then the ITL mystery, I hope. And then A Suitor's Tale (fingers crossed). Hooray!
Friday, April 20, 2012
Publishing update
I still need to edit my site to upload the new book covers, update links, etc. For now, here's where stuff stands:
The first volume of The Purple Book is here.
Off the Record is here.
Guys in College is here.
Guys in Cars will be next as soon as we straighten out issues uploading the cover.
After that should be Trent and Jason, once we format it, figure out a title, and design the cover.
After that should be the ITL mystery.
Then (fingers crossed) should be A Suitor's Tale, the rest of The Purple Book, The Rainbow Book, The Gold Book, and the novel about dragons.
The cover for the ITL mystery will be tricky. If it were a murder mystery, it would be easier, because we could just splash some blood spatter across the cover and be finished with it. But it's not a murder mystery, because the Anorians are such cialexes that the atrocity of murder would be so upsetting it would sort of derail the whole plot. It's an "oh no this priceless artifact is missing WHATEVER SHALL WE DO" mystery, with romance and sex scenes and random humor thrown in for fun because that's how I roll.
The first volume of The Purple Book is here.
Off the Record is here.
Guys in College is here.
Guys in Cars will be next as soon as we straighten out issues uploading the cover.
After that should be Trent and Jason, once we format it, figure out a title, and design the cover.
After that should be the ITL mystery.
Then (fingers crossed) should be A Suitor's Tale, the rest of The Purple Book, The Rainbow Book, The Gold Book, and the novel about dragons.
The cover for the ITL mystery will be tricky. If it were a murder mystery, it would be easier, because we could just splash some blood spatter across the cover and be finished with it. But it's not a murder mystery, because the Anorians are such cialexes that the atrocity of murder would be so upsetting it would sort of derail the whole plot. It's an "oh no this priceless artifact is missing WHATEVER SHALL WE DO" mystery, with romance and sex scenes and random humor thrown in for fun because that's how I roll.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Gold Book and more
This week's ITL installment will be up shortly! You've probably noticed, what with the wedding and everything, that we're honing in on the end of The Gold Book. I'm really looking forward to the next book! And the one after that, and the one after that! I hope that you've had fun with Remin and Tano. The Gold Book isn't over tonight, but it's about time for things to slow down, and I hope that you'll like where the story goes next!
Since you asked, no, there's no difference between the books on Lulu and the books on Amazon. I do edit and update things between the version on the site and the version which goes into print, but I haven't changed the text for the Amazon versions.
The Amazon versions are there primarily to make my work available for a wider audience. The prices are lower, also, which is nice. Actually, I was counting on the prices being lower with Amazon, and when I saw the Amazon price for The Purple Book, I was so discouraged that I changed my cut from $5 to $4. So you pay less, which is what I wanted, but I get less, which is not what I wanted. Alas.
Anyway, Amazon versions of Off the Record and Guys in College should be next (with new covers) and then, I believe, Guys in Cars. After that I hope to publish Trent and Jason's short story collection.
So! I'm looking forward to the next plotline in ITL, and I hope that you're looking forward to Trent and Jason's book. It'll include "Incredible" and "Stupid Question" from the site now, plus five new stories. Hooray for new fiction!
Editing to add: Speaking of moving from Amazon to Lulu, I find Amazon's process much more pleasant than Lulu's. If anyone out there's considering choosing one over the other, I'd recommend Amazon thus far.
Since you asked, no, there's no difference between the books on Lulu and the books on Amazon. I do edit and update things between the version on the site and the version which goes into print, but I haven't changed the text for the Amazon versions.
The Amazon versions are there primarily to make my work available for a wider audience. The prices are lower, also, which is nice. Actually, I was counting on the prices being lower with Amazon, and when I saw the Amazon price for The Purple Book, I was so discouraged that I changed my cut from $5 to $4. So you pay less, which is what I wanted, but I get less, which is not what I wanted. Alas.
Anyway, Amazon versions of Off the Record and Guys in College should be next (with new covers) and then, I believe, Guys in Cars. After that I hope to publish Trent and Jason's short story collection.
So! I'm looking forward to the next plotline in ITL, and I hope that you're looking forward to Trent and Jason's book. It'll include "Incredible" and "Stupid Question" from the site now, plus five new stories. Hooray for new fiction!
Editing to add: Speaking of moving from Amazon to Lulu, I find Amazon's process much more pleasant than Lulu's. If anyone out there's considering choosing one over the other, I'd recommend Amazon thus far.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Publishing news
https://www.createspace.com/3819396
Yay.
Got the first volume of The Purple Book up; it should be available on Amazon itself in a few days. Much more to follow, including some stuff already on Lulu and some new stuff (hooray). Diamond and I are formatting and editing and reviewing and hope to have most of it up this month.
Yay.
Got the first volume of The Purple Book up; it should be available on Amazon itself in a few days. Much more to follow, including some stuff already on Lulu and some new stuff (hooray). Diamond and I are formatting and editing and reviewing and hope to have most of it up this month.
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