Details about Defiance Exchange, sneak peek at the bookmarks, collectable character dossiers, new hero images and a sneak peek at the Aerosphere. All this week’s Secret Knowledge is below…
No books available this weekend – We are at the Parker County Peach Festival trying to keep up with selling all the peach jams.
I needed a place for the principals of Phoenix to meet with factors. The entrance and grand trading hall of the Defiance Exchange. https://greshamverse.fandom.com/wiki/Defiance_Exchange Eat your heart out New York Stock Exchange…
I kind of got side-tracked making some handout marketing pieces for Cons. The first two are the front and back of the free bookmark that encourages people to check out the Books & Series page. The second two are the front and back of the free bookmark that encourages people to sign up for the Secret Knowledge transmission. I also started putting together The Greshamverse Character Dossiers. These are collectable character dossiers that are free with a purchase.
The first Character Dossier is for Walter. I upgraded his default character image in the process.
I did the same with Nikola. Actually I didn’t have a lore image for Nikola. I think he looks amazingly like Benidict Cumberbatch.
Also upgraded the lore image for Elisha. He actually has two, one as General Al-Selene and one as President Al-Selene.
I finally came up with a definitive sword for the Selenite Sword of State. Essentially it is what a katana might look like if designed for modern materials. With some leukos crystals, of course…
Mirim also got an upgrade. Hers was mostly just making the image far higher resolution.
Sales at the 4th of July market were super slow this year, so Isaac and I talked some about the setting for one of the substories of Palestine’s Ghosts. It is a vast aerosphere sea with islands floating in it. They are in proportion to the crust, mantle, and core of Earth, so a few habitable islands, a bunch of islands made of almost pure metals – mostly nickel-iron, and even more islands made of the strange minerals that make up the mantle. In this setting, those mantle islands serve the same purpose for aetheric life that coral reefs serve for ocean life. And, given the shear size of the place… Let’s just stay that humans are not at the top of the food chain.
Just a little progress on Martian Phoenix chapters this week:
Gathering Storm – progress
Word Count is 43,518 in 11+ chapters of an estimated 80,000-95,000 in 24+Epilogue Chapters.
June Sales: Artemis Rising sold 1 ebook, 629 pages on Kindle Unlimited, and 1 paper book off Amazon, 8 in-person. Celestial Accord sold 192 pages on Kindle Unlimited and 5 in-person. Forging the Chain Breakers sold 5 in-person. Selene Unchained sold 5 in-person, 2 ebooks off Amazon. Antarctic Honeymoon sold 83 pages on Kindle Unlimited and 3 in-person. Mirim’s First Christmas sold 5 in-person.
Antarctic Honeymoon is #1,191 in Steampunk Fiction, #4,267 in Alternate History Science Fiction (Books), and #7,758 in Exploration Science Fiction. If you don’t have yours yet, you can get the paper version here, or the kindle version here. The audiobook is available here. No reviews yet. If you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here.
Artemis Rising is #658 in Steampunk Fiction, #705 in Steampunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store), and #2,275 in Alternative History. If you don’t have yours yet, you can get the paper version here or the kindle version here. There is also an audiobook version here. Seven reviews for Artemis Rising. More will help others find the series as well – if you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here.
Celestial Accord is in #798 in Steampunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store), #902 Steampunk Fiction, #2,548 in Alternate History. If you don’t have yours yet, you can get the paper version here, the kindle version here, or the audiobook version here. One review so far. If you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here.
Forging the Chain Breakers is #794 in Steampunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store), #899 in Steampunk Fiction, #2,538 in Alternative History. If you don’t have yours yet, you can get the paper version here, the kindle version here, or the audiobook here. No reviews yet. If you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here.
Selene Unchained is #717 in Steampunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store), #823 in Steampunk Fiction, #2,305 in Alternate History. If you don’t have yours yet, you can get the paper version here, the kindle version here, or the audiobook here. No reviews yet. If you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here
Mirim’s First Christmas is #11,535 in Colonization Science Fiction, #11,542 in Alternate History Science Fiction (Books), and #18,486 in Science Fiction Short Stories. You can find the paper version here or the kindle version here. One review so far. If you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here.