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Wednesday Afternoon Ramblings

June 1, 2011 D.A. Adams 2 Comments

For a couple of weeks now, I’ve been promising exciting news about book three and the series. Today, I can finally make the announcement. My friends at Seventh Star Press are taking over publication of The Brotherhood of Dwarves. With their outstanding marketing and promotional campaigns, Seventh Star can provide the series with the exposure it deserves. I’m excited and proud to be the newest addition to their stable of writers, including the award-winning Jackie Gamber, Steven Shrewsbury, Michael West, and the hardest working man in the business, Stephen Zimmer.

Book three, The Fall of Dorkhun, will be released this summer as a limited edition hardback. Then, Seventh Star will re-release both The Brotherhood of Dwarves and Red Sky at Dawn as trade paperbacks under their banner. Sometime in the fall, book three will also be released as a trade paperback. For a limited time, both TBOD and RSAD will still be available from Third Axe Media, but the availability of those editions is limited.

I’m proud of all that I accomplished as an independent author. I’ve grown a strong and loyal reader base and have sold books in nearly every state and even some in the UK. I’ve been a guest author at multiple conventions, including Dragon*Con. Not many independents can say that. While I did make many mistakes, especially the first couple of years, overall, I couldn’t be prouder of how far I’ve come. Now, the time is right to make this move, and while part of me is sad to retire Third Axe, I know the series is in excellent hands.

To my readers, I apologize for the multiple delays in getting book three to market. Those of you who follow this blog know a little of the history of all that’s occurred during the completion of this manuscript. For those who don’t, look back at the one I wrote last week chronicling most that’s happened during this period. However, as I’ve been working on the final draft, I feel as if the book will be worth the wait. There’s an energy to it that crackles, and it contains some of my strongest writing. In short, it’s a good book.

Thank you to everyone who has helped me along the way. I don’t want to single out any individual for fear of forgetting someone instrumental, but if you’ve encouraged me in any form, you know who you are. I will always appreciate the faith you put in my writing, even when I had my doubts. Now, looking to the future, I truly feel as if today is the beginning of something special.

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Friday Afternoon Ramblings – Extra Bonus Special Edition

January 21, 2011 D.A. Adams 2 Comments

The Brotherhood of Dwarves and Red Sky at Dawn are both available for the Kindle at Amazon.com. Both books are listed for the absurdly low price of $2.99 each. You won’t find a better entertainment deal anywhere else!

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Thursday Afternoon Ramblings

January 20, 2011 D.A. Adams Leave a comment

I finally found the time to format both my books for the Kindle. It’s a project that has been idling on my to-do list for two years. When I would think about it, I would be up to my eyebrows in work, and when I had the time, I wouldn’t remember to do it. However, both have been submitted for approval by the Amazon team, so I should know by tomorrow if they’re approved. I’m not 100% satisfied with how they looked on the preview screen because the Kindle strips away most formatting, but hopefully they’ll be legible enough for the average Kindle reader.

It’s fairly obvious that e-books are the future, so I’m going to try to get mine out there in as many formats as possible. Next, I’ll submit them to Lightning Source, my current printer, for them to distribute in their network. I’m hoping that these new outlets will help to get the series wider exposure. With book three nearing release, it would be nice to broaden the audience. My fellow independents can attest, often in this industry, we work and work and work without seeing much in return because making a dent in people’s consciousness has become extraordinarily difficult recently. People are so overwhelmed by commercials and marketing that a lone voice from the independent realm is often lost in the din.

Yet we still press on, hoping to build an audience and hoping that one day all of this effort and energy will be worth it. Even though we all proclaim that we don’t write for the money, most of us want at least to make our living solely from our writing, and while that doesn’t sound like an unreasonable wish for a novelist, in this country at this time, it often feels like an absurd pipe-dream. Maybe it was always this tough, and I just had unrealistic expectations. Country musicians used to call it “The long, hard road” to success, and maybe writing has always been this difficult to break into. All I know is that I’ve gotten a tremendous amount of positive feedback on my books, but to the large presses, I’m not up to par. Either my readers are fluffing my ego or the editors are out of touch. Either way, I’ll press on, writing a series that lives up to my standards and promoting as much as I can.