Saturday, October 19, 2013

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!

Well, I'd better face up to it. I'm going to have to build a proper website, get myself a domain, go through all that shite. I'm going to have to centralise and link together my various web presences once and for all.

Why?

Because of this:

http://www.amazon.com/Path-Night-Beast-Dirk-Flinthart-ebook/dp/B00G0PI82G/

That would be the link to my first published novel, as yet only through Kindle on Amazon. (Forgive me... but it works.)

I think I can put a shinier picture here, if I try.


Oh, yep. There it is.

I like the cover. (If you happen to like the cover, by the way, you might wanna talk to this chap: https://www.facebook.com/BranchyDesign -- he was very co-operative and good to work with.)

Oh, you wanna know about the book?

Uhhh -- first in a series of... several. Looks like urban fantasy/horror/thriller, but there are layers not yet revealed. The most important thing about it is that it is fun. It was fun to write, and with any luck, I've managed to make it fun to read.

That might not seem like much of a goal, but I realised that over the last few years, in the course of trying to refine my craft to the point of impressing publishers, I'd lost sight of the sheer fun of a good story. And I looked at the way the marketplace is changing, and the number of successful and effective ebooks and self-published books, and small-press books, and I thought: I'm doing this wrong.

So, ladies and gentlemen and others of all variety -- here it is. And at this point, things have to change.

I'll keep this blog, but it will be personal, family, political, etc. I'll probably run a link to it from a dedicated Flinthart/Writer website. And I will make the effort to write about writing and being a writer and all that good shit on the dedicated site.

That's the plan, anyhow. In the meantime, I'm hard at work on the next book in the series above. I'm also carving my way through the master's degree, and trying to rustle up a couple of short stories.

Thanks and kudos to Tehani the amazing editor/publisher of Fablecroft, and to Adam for his very fine cover. And thanks to everybody around here who has offered kind and encouraging words over the years. I don't have any copies of this thing to give away yet, but when I do, I'll find a way to make sure I can pass a few over.

(Oh -- and in other news, wearing two pairs of underpants at once has helped a lot. I can walk again, and standing up doesn't even hurt for the first fifteen minutes or so. Most of the colours have faded from my less mentionable bits, but the swelling is still a little alarming. How long does it take a scrotum to come back down to a reasonable size, anyway?)

21 comments:

  1. Cool

    will put up a review as soon as I read it, have to finish Book 3 of the Expanse first, sorry

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  2. That looks like it would be exactly my cuppa tea. Any plans to release it as an epub for the non-kindle users?

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    1. Your friendly neighbourhood publisher says yes! The book will be out from your preferred etailer (including direct from Smashwords, Kobo and iTunes) in the near future, as well as in print :)

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    2. Excellent news. I shall keep an eye out.

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    3. Well, dang. My publisher is FAST.

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    4. Yay! If it's going to be soon, I shall wait for the epub.

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  3. I'll read it, but I was hoping for the story of a young girl's coming of age.

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    1. Okay. Next volume, then?

      No, seriously. There's a young girl. And she does, in fact, have to come to grips with growing up...

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    2. Most excellent.

      Does your novel also feature ray guns, either incidentally or directly, perchance? For me, the perfect read is a story of a young girl's coming of age that also includes the use of a ray gun, at least once. I know, I know, it is a cliche formula, but it works.

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    3. No. Regrettably, there are no ray guns. Tarantino-esque wannabe vampire gangsters; ancient Chinese monster-hunting fraternities; unpleasant lawyers; guns; drugs; ridiculous cars... no ray-guns.

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    4. I will adjust my expectations accordingly.

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  4. Excellent. Seriously pleased to see this happen for you.

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  5. Cool! Must read. I hear to tell that underwear models wear twompairsmof undies for....looks. Ahem. Guess you aren't trying to pump things up then?

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    1. More trying to bring things down and keep them from wobbling painfully about the place, Bondi.

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  6. If its cooling underware your after might I recommend

    http://geekologie.com/2013/03/snowballs-chilled-mens-underwear-to-incr.php

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  7. You are as helpful as ever. However I must say, Natalie is going to hate that you've given me this link. During the worst of the Great Nadsplosion, I spent quite a lot of time with one of those freezer-packs on my squishy bits, and I decided I should invent the equivalent of a freezer-pack codpiece. Natalie laughed scornfully at the concept...

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  8. DAM!...WICKED JOB!.


    And on the other front, yeah, forgot, the doc said to me to wear TIGHT JOCKS..stops shit movin about etc!...better late than never, MOTION IS YA ENEMY OBIWON!

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    1. I have learned this. Yes. The testicles and I: we know the horror of the bouncing and the wobbling.

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    1. My pleasure. I'm at work on the next one. People keep motivating me to write it. That's quite new to me.

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    2. A brilliant read. When can we expect the next one?

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