I know a 3rd blog post in the month, crazy stuff. However this is just a quick blurb to inform those who are following along that I created a Patreon page.
The reason is simple, I want to see if there is enough support to help push me to a full time writer, along with helping getting my books professionally edited.
Each month I will be putting up Chapters of books that are either due out soon, or chapter of different stories I am working on to see how people like them.
It is up to ya'll from here.
My thanks to those who follow the blog, and if you go on to support Patreon, again my thanks.
https://www.patreon.com/DJSchinhofen
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Saturday, May 6, 2017
May 2017 part 2
Okay, news here. Just a quick update, but still I know some of you have been chomping at the bit for news.
Alpha World Book 2, Forming the Company. Is done being written, woohoo.
Sadly it now goes to editing, which is the most time intensive part for me. I would say late June to early July as a tentative release date.
So there you have it an update, next month I will have a much better idea as to actual date of release.
Alpha World Book 2, Forming the Company. Is done being written, woohoo.
Sadly it now goes to editing, which is the most time intensive part for me. I would say late June to early July as a tentative release date.
So there you have it an update, next month I will have a much better idea as to actual date of release.
Monday, May 1, 2017
May 2017
Okay another month has passed on by and bad news on the book front. I missed my self-imposed deadline of finishing the book by the end of April. Good news it will be done this coming week, woot woot. Okay bad news again, then it goes to editing. Once the first edit is done, I will go over it again then get it out to my couple of beta readers/ proof readers.
So long story short.... too late... Late June or early July is likely to see Alpha World Book 2, Forming the Company.
Onto other news Podium told me who was doing the audio for Alpha World Book 1 Gamer for Life. The narrator is Peter Berkrot, unless they change things on me. After listening to some of his work I am excited by this.
More audio book news Tantor told me who would be doing the audio for Last Horizon. The narrator for that is Johnathan Yen, who did the Way of the Shaman Series. So that is pretty awesome.
Not a whole lot else to update you all on. I am going to be changing the chapter titles to just chapter #, instead of names. This is to help with the whisper synch when the books go audio, as well as to not spoil what is coming in the chapter.
Okay I didn't get a whole lot of response last week, sad panda here. This week we will try again. I have two/three other books clamoring to be written. So once Book 2 is done I have a choice to make, do I go for book 3. Do I write the Dungeon book I have wanting to be heard. Or I could write the multi-game book where the MC has the option of playing multiple games from Zombie, to Fantasy, to Cyberpunk ect... or again I could write a more real LITRPG, one where skills go up slowly, magic has to be taught to you, abilities have to be trained ect...
It really is a hard one to decide, so if you have an opinion and everyone does, please leave a comment.
Until next month when I hopefully have news about when the book is ready to be published at least in a tighter window, I wish you all the best and thanks for your support.
So long story short.... too late... Late June or early July is likely to see Alpha World Book 2, Forming the Company.
Onto other news Podium told me who was doing the audio for Alpha World Book 1 Gamer for Life. The narrator is Peter Berkrot, unless they change things on me. After listening to some of his work I am excited by this.
More audio book news Tantor told me who would be doing the audio for Last Horizon. The narrator for that is Johnathan Yen, who did the Way of the Shaman Series. So that is pretty awesome.
Not a whole lot else to update you all on. I am going to be changing the chapter titles to just chapter #, instead of names. This is to help with the whisper synch when the books go audio, as well as to not spoil what is coming in the chapter.
Okay I didn't get a whole lot of response last week, sad panda here. This week we will try again. I have two/three other books clamoring to be written. So once Book 2 is done I have a choice to make, do I go for book 3. Do I write the Dungeon book I have wanting to be heard. Or I could write the multi-game book where the MC has the option of playing multiple games from Zombie, to Fantasy, to Cyberpunk ect... or again I could write a more real LITRPG, one where skills go up slowly, magic has to be taught to you, abilities have to be trained ect...
It really is a hard one to decide, so if you have an opinion and everyone does, please leave a comment.
Until next month when I hopefully have news about when the book is ready to be published at least in a tighter window, I wish you all the best and thanks for your support.
Monday, April 3, 2017
April 2017
I realized that I never said when my blog was going to
update last time. Oops my bad ya all, I will do the minimum update on the first Monday
or Tuesday of each month. If I do any other updates it will be random.
So onto the news ya all might want to know about. Old stuff
first, Tantor Media has the rights to do the audio books for Last Horizon Beta
and Last Horizon Live. No idea where they are in the process but they have the
rights to it.
Next up Podium Publishing has the rights to the Alpha World
series. So they are working on the first book right now, but for those who love
audio books they have the rights to the entire series, which will be at least
four books but probably more.
As to where book 2 for Alpha World is, well that is where
the bad news comes in. First off I still don’t have a working title yet.
Secondly, I won’t be writing short stories while in the middle of a book. Doing
so really threw me off my stride. Thirdly, I ended up not writing for close to
two weeks, the reason why, a death in the family. My grandmother, father’s mom,
passed away the loss of her followed by having to jump states for the funeral
put me off writing for a bit.
Okay that is enough Daniel Downer, the good news is I
started writing again this week. I have easily gotten back into my groove with
well over thirty pages written in the last week. So the story is back on the
way. I am thinking late June or earlish July for the release of the next book.
I am curious to get feedback from those who follow this blog
though, if you would be so kind to drop a comment below. Do you like the couple
word names I give my chapters or would you rather just have the Chapter #,
instead.
Well that is it for now, but thank you for stopping by and
reading my blog again. Over on Goodreads you can drop me any questions you
might have. Or even on Facebook, word to the wise though I won’t be giving out
spoilers.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
First Blog
Hmm, okay then first blog post.
What to say really, I guess I should start with the basics.
I'm an indie author with a few books to my name so far. If you are reading this you probably already know that though.
I was recently asked by a couple of other authors if I had a newsletter, blog or some other things. As I didn't it got me think that maybe I should at least have a blog. This way I can keep my readers in a slightly tighter loop about how I am progressing on my works.
So here we are with the first blog, let's kick it off with the old news first shall we. Last Horizons: Beta & Live are still kicking along alright. Alpha World Book 1, Gamer for Life has rocketed out of the gate compared to the other two.
For those who haven't read any of my works or for those puzzled by my writing style. I try to write what I feel is closest to life. With the genre I right in being LITRPG, that means it should feel more life like then a high fantasy book.
I've read a ton of the other writers in the same genre, the good, the bad, and the oh my god what did I just read, aka the ugly. It was when I was reading one of the ones that is well known that advanced the plot at a breakneck speed that I thought about how I would write a similar story.
For me it is all about relationships and the journey. It is awesome if the MC has a huge quest and all but I want to see the journey. I want it to take time, I want to see how he grows by himself/herself and with the friends around them.
As such I have been told before my books are slow, or that they meander. This is true to a point, however life is never easy or straight forward. yes I know we read to escape the grind that is life but at the same time I read to connect to the MC to empathize with them. As such I write as if the book is real, if that was you in there how would the average person respond? With that question in mind is how I write my story. Love it, hate it, or indifferent that is how I write.
Anyway, I will do my best to make this a monthly blog to a biweekly blog, minimum of 1 a month but maybe more. Most of my posts will be an update about where my current book is during the writing editing process.
So for those who want to know I am about halfway through book 2 of Alpha world currently. however a well known author asked me to chip in on an anthology. As such I have had to set that aside for a bit to churn out a short story to add to the anthology. I'm not far from wrapping that up though so it will soon be back to the wheel.
Thank you for stopping by to read my ramblings. I hope to be able to connect with those people who have enjoyed my work. if you hate my work that is fine as well, but keep it civil please. For those who are firmly in the middle of those opposites I hope you will stop by from time to time as well.
What to say really, I guess I should start with the basics.
I'm an indie author with a few books to my name so far. If you are reading this you probably already know that though.
I was recently asked by a couple of other authors if I had a newsletter, blog or some other things. As I didn't it got me think that maybe I should at least have a blog. This way I can keep my readers in a slightly tighter loop about how I am progressing on my works.
So here we are with the first blog, let's kick it off with the old news first shall we. Last Horizons: Beta & Live are still kicking along alright. Alpha World Book 1, Gamer for Life has rocketed out of the gate compared to the other two.
For those who haven't read any of my works or for those puzzled by my writing style. I try to write what I feel is closest to life. With the genre I right in being LITRPG, that means it should feel more life like then a high fantasy book.
I've read a ton of the other writers in the same genre, the good, the bad, and the oh my god what did I just read, aka the ugly. It was when I was reading one of the ones that is well known that advanced the plot at a breakneck speed that I thought about how I would write a similar story.
For me it is all about relationships and the journey. It is awesome if the MC has a huge quest and all but I want to see the journey. I want it to take time, I want to see how he grows by himself/herself and with the friends around them.
As such I have been told before my books are slow, or that they meander. This is true to a point, however life is never easy or straight forward. yes I know we read to escape the grind that is life but at the same time I read to connect to the MC to empathize with them. As such I write as if the book is real, if that was you in there how would the average person respond? With that question in mind is how I write my story. Love it, hate it, or indifferent that is how I write.
Anyway, I will do my best to make this a monthly blog to a biweekly blog, minimum of 1 a month but maybe more. Most of my posts will be an update about where my current book is during the writing editing process.
So for those who want to know I am about halfway through book 2 of Alpha world currently. however a well known author asked me to chip in on an anthology. As such I have had to set that aside for a bit to churn out a short story to add to the anthology. I'm not far from wrapping that up though so it will soon be back to the wheel.
Thank you for stopping by to read my ramblings. I hope to be able to connect with those people who have enjoyed my work. if you hate my work that is fine as well, but keep it civil please. For those who are firmly in the middle of those opposites I hope you will stop by from time to time as well.
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