Corwin Koell

Audiobook #2 Announcement: An Improbable Journey

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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!​

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Corwin Koell Story #2 Update. Also, Best-Seller!

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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.

Oncoming Displacement

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I think the reason I’ve had so much with Corwin’s latest story is that while I have a good idea of what exactly it is that he wants, that he’s invested in, I’m not nearly as sure about how it comes into play within the story itself. I might need to break from this one for a bit and work it out.

I’m not going to go on another big break from fiction though. I have another story in mind that I think is pretty strong right from the outset.

The cost of living these days sucks, and it’s only getting worse. Imagine how expensive it’s going to be by 2030. Wouldn’t it be great if you could go back in time when rent and food were crazily cheap, but not sacrifice your connection to the present in the process? Sure sounds great. But would it really be great?

Displaced, starting soon…