Next New Breed Chronicles

This is just an update to let you know that the next episode of THE NEW BREED CHRONICLES is finished.  She just needs editing and she'll be ready to go.  You should be able to expect her live on Amazon in the next couple of days.

I have a question for the fans of this series.  When I started out these episodes I had a vision of completing one each month and I still plan on trying to reach that pace.  Life, other books, family and business all naturally get in the way of this process.  My question is this:  should I continue to release these short episodes, as I have been doing at irregular intervals, or at this stage would it be better to just wait until the first "Novel" or "Season" has been completed and simply release that when it's ready?

J.T.

Thanks to Reviewers

This is just a really quick post to put something out there.  It's been a while since the release of Breed and the influx of a number of reviews on Amazon and Goodreads.  The majority of these reviews have been very positive.

The reason that I am writing this post is that I want to respond to every review I get but I feel that there must surely be some kind of taboo against that.  If I respond to a positive review and tell the reviewer that I love them and want to have their babies (that's meant to be funny because I'm a man but, because all you guys see is my initials, I guess I need to clarify) then how are they supposed to feel free to give a negative review on my next book.

So I just want to say:

To my positive reviewers:  thank you so much.  You might not know what it's like to log on to Amazon or Goodreads and see some completely unknown person praising your work.  It is an injection of happiness into my day and can put me on a high for hours and days afterwards.

To my negative reviewers: thank you as well.  Sure it's a bummer to see that I didn't strike a chord with you.  But thank you for the comment because you help me get better at this thing that I'm trying to do.

This post is probably inspired because DEEP was recently released with hundreds of free downloads.  This means that reviews are probably on the way and I am, honestly, very anxious.

J.T.

DEEP is out now on Amazon.  It will be free for five days starting tomorrow (Tuesday).  The only price for the free download is that you have to rate it 5 stars and give it a glowing review no matter what a mess it might be to read!  Only joking of course...  unless that would make you give it 5 stars no matter what a mess it is, in which case...

Quick Update

This is just a quick update to let anyone who cares know that my new horror novel, DEEP, should be releasing on Amazon this week.  After that the next episode of THE NEW BREED CHRONICLES shouldn't be far behind.

Thanks to everyone who continues to support me by buying my work on Amazon.

I'll be back with another post this week.

J.T.

Breed has sold over 200 Copies - Thank You

Dear Internet,

Breed has moved over 200 paid copies (that's counting paid borrows and Kindle Unlimited which certainly matter to me).
I am just writing a thank you to every single reader who has taken their hard earned money and spent it on a copy of my book.  200 copies might be a nothing to many authors but to me it is a gigantic milestone.  The idea that 200 of you have read Breed and made the characters real is very special to me.
I am working hard on another horror novel which, if luck is with me, should be available in April (and maybe even by the end of March).  Once the horror novel has been published the next episode of The New Breed Chronicles won't be far behind.

Path to Together Discount Glitch

Hi Internet,

The discount of Path to Together to 99c did not happen as scheduled.  There appears to have been a small glitch in the system and Amazon are working on it right now.  I am hoping the discount will appear as promised in the next day or two.

J.T.

Path to Together Discounted & Free Book Update

Hi Internet,

The latest installment of "The New Breed Chronicles" launched yesterday.  To give everyone a chance to catch up I am running a promotion on the collection of the first three episodes, "The Path to Together".  For 5 days, starting Saturday the 21st of February, "The Path to Together" will be 99c on Amazon.
For those who care, "The New Breed Chronicles" is an episodic series.  A I mentioned in a previous post it is something along the lines of a serialized novel.  I have not been releasing content for the series as frequently as I originally intended but I plan on remedying that situation.  The idea is the first novel will be concluded in about 8-12 episodes, at which point I will collect them together into a single issue.

As for the free book experiment with "Breed", things have actually performed better than I expected.  After the free book offer I really thought that I wouldn't see another download.  The result has actually been quite different.  Sales, though extremely modest by comparative standards, are the best I have ever had for a title.  They have actually been multiple times better than any other title I have ever had.  The other interesting effect is that I am now seeing sales, albeit very small numbers of sales, of my other titles.  It's almost as if, and I say this very tentatively, readers are enjoying Breed and are then going looking for more stories from this poor hopeless scheister.

Anyway internet, that is all because the day-job beckons,

J.T.