An Improbable Journey
I did a re-recording of An Improbable Journey tonight, and I used a new microphone. This one's directional, and seems to do a much better job than the iPad mic I used on My Abstract Life.
Take a listen and let me know what you think of the difference in the comments! I've got editing on the new episode started, and should have it done tomorrow. I've also continued editing The Fast and the Dead, though I have no ETA for it.
After getting some feedback on the matter, it seems the next audio book will be An Improbable Journey. I just finished my first recording of it, and i think it went reasonably well. I'll need some beta-listener feedback on it before I can release it of course. It'll probably be a while before I can just release them unheard. I need to improve before that happens.
Reading it aloud was an interesting experience, and is something that from now on will have to become part of my editing practice. I've made a few small edits to the story as a result of experiencing it differently. These are on the order of missing punctuation and so on, very simple corrections, nothing that impacts the story in a big way. There were several of them though, and it was enough that I'll be updating the eBooks available here and on Amazon, Smashwords and Goodreads sometime in the next day or two to reflect the edits.
In further podcast news, I'm getting close to solving the problem that's preventing the audiobooks from showing up in iTunes. I hope to have that fixed in the next day or two as well. Fingers crossed!
Last night I spent a bunch more time brainstorming the new story following up Corwin Koell's harrowing adventure on Haruna, and it was looking like I wasn't going to get to post more on that. It's been a long time since I had daily writing to post though; all of my updates lately have been blog posts, and I've been busy getting An Improbable Journey up on Amazon, Smashwords and Goodreads, and I'm _still_ getting it uploaded to host it here on the site locally. I couldn't let it go without writing something, especially since it was starting to feel like brainstorming was becoming an excuse not to write the story. So I wrote a bit of it.
Homecoming is a working title; it might change by the time this story's all done.
The other big news is that, speaking of _An Improbable Journey_, it's become a best-seller in the Canadian Kindle store! I reached the top 10 with that title under Kindle sci-fi anthologies, the top 100 of all sci-fi anthologies, including print, and the top 50 sci-fi adventure titles in the country. It's a pretty thrilling day today. :) Thanks to everyone who's been reading my work, however you're getting it. (Note that they update their standings periodically; those stats were based on when I checked last night.)
Next up: I'm going to get the free download links for here on the site up, and tonight I'll be writing a bit more of the story.
My third title is available on Amazon's Kindle store. And now that also includes Amazon.ca's brand new Kindle store, exciting for me as a Canadian!
I have not enrolled this book in the Amazon KDP Select program, so I will be making it available as free eBooks here on the site very shortly; my current plan is to get those ready for tomorrow. I expect I'll also put it up on GoodReads and at Smashwords as well.
As usual, An Improbable Journey is $0.99.
"Marooned on an uninhabited junk yard world that lacks the basic necessities of life, Corwin Koell finds what he needs with the help of a tiny robot, but escape will only come at a cost."
After my minor editing sweep through An Improbable Journey the other day, something nagged at my mind and wouldn't let go. Today it finally started bothering me enough that even though I am otherwise completely ready to release it to the Amazon store and put it up here as an eBook, I'm doing another editing pass through it, and this is actually a partial rewrite.
It's not a bad story as it is, but I think it could be a lot better. As it stands, Corwin has a pretty easy time of it on the planet until the end. Things get really difficult for him then, but it's already the end! Where's the tension? Where's the conflict? There really isn't any. Sure, he has to deal with a completely inhospitable environment, but Aru shows up and makes that problem essentially go away without any real effort on Corwin's part. So I've got an idea or two I'm going to implement in the story, which hopefully won't take too long. Bear with me a bit longer!
