Merry Christmas everyone and happy holidays! Thanks for everyone supporting my first year as an author and with my first two books. I hope to produce more books in 2015, so I hope that you all continue your support!
Have a great new years!
Books in paperback:
Shattered Soul: Elements of Lightning
Shattered Soul: Elements of Blood
The holidays are among us. As Wal-Mart and Hobby Lobby stocked for the occasion several months ago, Halloween strikes the first of the major holiday season.
But to pc gamers, the holidays only means one thing. SALES!
I am an active user of Steam, a DRM for pc games. They are always having huge sales you will never get with console games (sorry console gamers.) Point and case, the Halloween Steam Sale.When I began my adventures into pc gaming, I would become broke within several days of one of these holiday sales. Gabe Newell knows how to get your money.
Now, this video is for the summer sale from this past summer, but I believe it still holds many aspects to any Steam Sale survival.
As for me, I’m going to ignore the sale this time, and continue in working on my sequel getting finalized. Just waiting on the cover really. Aside from waiting, the third installment of the Shattered Soul series is coming along nicely, and so is the first extension from the series. These next two won’t be far apart from my sequel, I’m making sure of that.
Something I’ve never liked to accept as an adult. The “real world” as many adults like to call being grown up and working 9 to 5 jobs that most people dread.
As a writer, I can’t stand that I have to work part time meet ends meet, but yeah I’ll do it because I have to. But I will not stop writing or stop trying to find a job related to writing.
I want to write, like any writer should. I know anyone and everyone can write, so the market is tough.
I know the “real world” is harsh and everyone can’t live their dream, but I’m not giving up. Everyone should get a chance at their dream.
(I sound like a terrible motivational speaker)
I’m not too sure if many other writers/authors have had part time jobs at Wal-Mart like I have. It could be my love for the post-apocalyptic video game series, Fallout, but I think Wal-Mart would make a great tale for such an event.
I do believe anyone with imagination or a love for horror would have thought that Wal-Mart would be a great place to hold up in an apocalypse. Or at least a place to get supplies.
I’ve worked at two Wal-Marts in the span of almost 8 months. My imagination became like a wildfire when I began to explore backrooms and stock different departments. It’s amazing how little people know Wal-Mart has until you stock it yourself.
Just recently, I began to think of a series based on this idea. Now, I probably would never get to it, due to expanding the universe of Elementalists, such as Ace Venx in Shattered Soul: Elements of Lightning.
One of my biggest questions is, if we all think about using the store in an apocalypse, would we read about it?
Everyone likes series, right? Well I like the idea of writing them. I hope to catch people’s interest with my steampunk sequel to Elements of Lightning with not only a long coming series of books, but the idea that you could pick up any book in the series without the worry of having to read the ones before it. I hope this will bring in more fans if they get into the series after a few books are published. Or perhaps give people a variety of main characters while keeping to an overall plot.
Now it is still a series, so there will be references and links in the books for those who read it in order.
I hope by the time I am done writing the sequel, this will be apparent. Elements of Blood should be ready to go in the next few months.
So I know a lot of authors have websites. I should have one too. But because my series is going to be open world, with my cousin’s upcoming novel and my own Shattered Soul series, I figured I’ll work on making a site that is about the series, not me as an author. This way it could have like a tab or something that you can see contributing authors to the open world and get facts and updates about the books.
The details are being smoothed out right now, so it may be some time before this happens, but I know it will. I want it to happen. Makes everything easier.
So my book and ebook are now even cheaper. The ebook is now only a dollar, and the paperback is now 11 dollars on amazon and createspace.
In other news, the second in the series is coming along nicely. It should be done before summer. It’s a nice steampunk adventure addition to the shattered soul series. A different perspective from Ace’s for sure.
It’s really strange writing a novel about flying cars and instant transportation and then writing a Victorian steampunk novel to follow it.
I do believe this next novel will still appeal to those who like Elements of Lightning. Continuing the the universe of elements, Elements of Blood keeps the Shattered Soul going. If any one wants to know the main character, you could find out by reading Elements of Lightning.
Brandan Chapman 