“Current Downloads and Upcoming Projects” Part I

This post will cover the status of some of my current projects and a few details on upcoming projects.

The chart below details current downloads for all titles uploaded to Smashwords as of 9-5-16…

Title	Week Starting 9-5-16
JW & the Serengeti Factor	721
JW & the Amazon Vector	534
JW & the Hellas Enigma	508
JW & the Golden Horde	443
JW & the Great Rift Zone	444
JW & the Europa Quandary	409
Final Victory	100
The Eyeball Conspiracy	150
The Peking Incident	172
Root Magic	76
Nanotroopers  Episode 1	503
Nanotroopers  Episode 2	393
Nanotroopers Episode 3	306
Nanotroopers Episode 4	269
Nanotroopers Episode 5	245
Nanotroopers Episode 6	201
Nanotroopers Episode 7	195
Nanotroopers Episode 8	162
The Farpool	431
Nanotroopers Episode 9	117
Nanotroopers  Episode 10	117
Nanotroopers Episode 11	94
Nanotroopers Episode 12	57
TOTAL	6647

 

Interestingly enough, the gain in downloads from the previous week was 181, meaning that many downloads were added in the last week.  Somebody out there is downloading and hopefully reading my work.  Weekly increases are averaging about 120, so this was a little spike. Also, as you can see, I just uploaded Episode 12 of my series Nanotroopers on 9-2-16.  In four days, it has picked up 57 downloads.

The science fiction titles (basically Tales of the Quantum Corps, Nanotroopers and The Farpool, are all free titles, so (not surprisingly), they lead in downloads.  But in the past month, one reader actually forked over cash for all three of my Cold War novels (The Eyeball Conspiracy, The Peking Incident and Final Victory). 

I see no reason to change the price status of my sf work from free as downloads of those titles continue to add up.  Hopefully, this will lead to even greater downloads and visibility in the future.  That’s the plan.

As to upcoming projects, I list them below, along with proposed developments:

1.     Ending Tales of the Quantum Corps.  I have just started the first draft of the seventh title (Johnny Winger and the Battle at Caloris Basin).  This novel will round out Tales and the story of Johnny Winger and should be completed next spring.

2.     I would really like to do a technical manual called Quantum Corps Field Manual at some point.  The world of Tales is complex enough and (by now) developed enough to make this a useful addendum to anyone’s collection.  It would be done like an Army field manual and would cover the Mission, Organization, Operations, Tactics and Technology of this imaginary universe.  But it cries out to be illustrated and I’m no graphic artist.  So this one will have to wait until I can figure that aspect out. 

3.     The next likely project will be the follow-on title in the Farpool series.  The title is The Farpool: Marauders of Seome.  I envision a number of titles developing in this series.  Below is a list of what is being planned:

a.     The Farpool: Exodus from Seome

b.     The Farpool: Terran Union.  Human and Seomish deal with conflict and learn how to live together on one planet (Seome is destroyed when their sun Sigma Albeth B supernova’es)

c.     The Farpool: Coethi Diaspora. Human (22^nd century) and Seomish work together to deal with the approach of the Coethi (more battles and wars in voidtime and alternate time streams using the Time Corps)

d.     The Farpool: Convergence. Possible genetic/technological blending of human and Seomish physiology.  Hybrids develop, able to live on land and in the ocean.

e.     The Farpool: Temporal Sabotage. Coethi infiltrators threaten historical Earth time streams.  Human-Seomish  hybrids must combat changes to Earth’s past by combating infiltrators in periods and locales of ancient Earth history where amphibious hybrid troopers could make a difference.

 

Will I actually complete all these titles?  Who knows?  But there’s enough story here, enough depth and complexity in the setting and in the relations of the main characters that I think there is a strong possibility I will pursue The Farpool series to the end identified above.

 

By the way, there is another non-science fiction project floating around in my head with the title of The Eureka Gambit.  Major premise: Hitler approves a plot to abduct Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill as they arrive and assemble for the Teheran Conference in November 1943, to prevent an invasion of western Europe.  The plot involves ransoming off the lives of the Big Three for a cessation of hostilities in Europe and a recognition by the Allies of current borders and military gains by the Third Reich.  Recognizing a new order in Europe. 

 

I’ll bring Part I of this post to a close for now, so as not to make for too much reading.  Part II will cover changes to my personal writing environment for 2017, new marketing strategies for uploaded ebook titles and possibly an excerpt from my newest sf work: Johnny Winger and the Battle at Caloris Basin.

 

See you on September 26.

 

Phil B.