Post #176 July 15 2019

“Update on Downloads and a New Series Coming”

I just updated the most recent statistics on my ebook downloads from Smashwords.  Here are the numbers as of 7-1-19:

Total cumulative downloads from when I first went online = 32,876

Total downloads for 2019 = 14, 236

Downloads have been cooking along at about 65-70 a day most of this year.  Somebody out there is downloading and reading my stuff!

There is another set of statistics worth sharing.  These are cumulative downloads for certain ebook series among my titles, current as of 5-17-19:

Tales of the Quantum Corps = 7330

Farpool Stories = 4129

Time Jumpers = 489

Quantum Troopers (formerly Nanotroopers) = 13,091

 

It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see which series has been most popular.  In fact, as if 5-17-19, Quantum Troopers alone had accounted for around 45% of all my downloads.  Which leads me to this announcement.  Some time in early 2020, a new series will arrive, entitled Quantum Troopers Return.  Yes, Johnny Winger and ANAD and all the heroes of 1^st ANAD Battalion are coming back in an all-new series.

Here are some details….

1. Quantum Troopers Return is a series of 25,000-30,000-word episodes detailing the adventures of Johnny Winger and his experiences as a quantum trooper with the United Nations Quantum Corps.  This series continues the original serial stories of Quantum Troopers, Episodes 1-22 (formerly Nanotroopers).
2. Each episode will be about 40-60 pages, approximately 30,000 words in length.
3. A new episode will be available and uploaded every 4 weeks.
4. There will be 10 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: U.N. Quantum Corps must defeat the criminal cartel Red Harmony’s efforts to use their nanorobotic ANAD systems for the cartel’s own nefarious and illegal purposes.
7. Uploads will be made to www.smashwords.com on approximately the schedule below:
    
   Episode # (*)   Title                                                     Approximate Upload Date
   1 (23)               ‘Fab Lords’                                                     2-7-20
   2 (24)               “Free Fall’                                                       3-6-20
   3 (25)               “Forbidden City”                                            4-3-20
   4 (26)               “Deep Encounter”                                           5-8-20
   5 (27)               “HAVOC”                                                      6-12-20
   6 (28)               “The Empty Quarter”                                      7-10-20
   7 (29)               “The Hellas Paradox”                                     8-14-20
   8 (30)               “Twist Pirates”                                                9-11-20
   9 (31)               “The Better Angels”                                       10-9-20
   10 (32)             “The Ship of Theseus”                                    11-13-20

 

(Note *: Episode numbers start with Episode 1 in this new series but the continuation of episode numbers from Quantum Troopers is also provided).

With the coming of a new series, I will have to figure out a way to dovetail the work with my larger science fiction novel Monument, which I hope to start this fall and which should be available in late summer/early fall of 2020. 

In any case, there is plenty coming up to keep me busy, as I am still writing episodes of my latest series Time Jumpers.  As of 7-1-19, titles in this series have been downloaded some 785 times since February 1.

The next post to The Word Shed comes on July 22, 2019.  See you then.

Phil B.