Post #124 May 28 2018

“Downloads and New Projects”

This post is dedicated to some updates on current downloads and a peek at upcoming projects.  Last week, I uploaded a new ebook to Smashwords (The Specter) and its doing pretty well.  The distributor is showing 57 downloads as of Monday, May 21, after being available for 3 days.   This book is a horror story first written in 1980-81, so it’s an older work.  I scanned it earlier this year, then re-wrote and cleaned up the files and uploaded last week.  I hope you’ll enjoy it.   It’s available at Smashwords and all other fine ebook retailers.

Current downloads look like the following (total = 14484):

 

Tales of the Quantum Corps = 5052 (+54 from last update on April 16)

The Farpool Stories = 1545 (+84)

Nanotroopers = 6591 (+ 118)

Other (includes The Specter) = 1296 (+ 92)

 

Of note: The fourth title in The Farpool Stories (The Farpool: Convergence) is done in first draft.  This should be available to readers on or before late June 2018.

The fifth (and final) title in The Farpool Stories (The Farpool: Union) hasn’t been started yet but should be available by late fall 2018.

Which leads me to my major project for 2019.   Early next year, I will be publishing on, a monthly basis, episodes of a new serialized story entitled Time Jumpers.  Here are some details:

1. Time Jumpers is a series of 15,000-20,000-word episodes detailing the adventures of Ultrarch-Major Monthan Dringoth and his experiences as a time jumper with the Time Guard.
2. Each episode will be about 40-60 pages, approximately 20,000 words in length.
3. A new episode will be available and uploaded every 4 weeks.
4. There will be 12 episodes.  The story will be completely serialized in about 12 months.
5. Each episode is a stand-alone story but will advance the greater theme and plot of the story arc. 
6. The main plotline: Time Guard must defeat the enemy Coethi and stop their efforts to disrupt or eliminate Uman settlements in the Galactic Inner Spiral and Lower Halo sectors of Uman space.  
7. Uploads will be made to www.smashwords.com.  Proposed titles are shown below.
    
    
   Episode #        Title                                                    

1.             ‘Marooned in Voidtime’                                
2.             ‘Keaton’s World’
3.             ‘A Small Navigation Error’
4.             ‘Sturdivant Eleven’
5.             ‘The Time Guard’
6.             ‘First Light Corridor
7.             ‘Hapsh’m and the First Coethi Encounter’
8.             ‘Operation Galactic Hammer’
9.             ‘Byrd’s Draconis’
10.             ‘Jumpship Majoris’
11.             ‘Planck Time’
12.             ‘The Time Twister’
     
    Look for this series to begin sometime in the first two months of 2019.  And, as indicated, a new episode will appear once a month, once the series has started. 
     
    That’s it for this post.  The next post to The Word Shed will put us at June 4, 2018. 
     
    See you then.
     
    Phil B.