That moment when all the foreplay comes to fruition and everything collapses into a tiny black hole and then a supernova erupts and you see stars before your eyes.
Yeah. Well, maybe it's not quite as good as sex, but it's still incredibly satisfying to have City Limits released this morning in both eBook and paperback. And apparently, worldwide. I've cross-checked the various Kindle sites in the US, UK, DE, FR, and AU. They all seem to be live and print is also available, though it isn't connected to the display of the Kindle for some reason. You have to search for it separately. In English. What I need is a couple hundred thousand copies sold and I'll be able to afford to have it translated.
In case you are looking for the book and can't find it, remember the author name is Nathan Everett, not Devon Layne. Sometimes it even gets confusing for me. So here are the details:
City Limits by Nathan Everett
Paperback ISBN: 9781939275790
eBook ISBN: 9781939275806
The last chapter of City Limits will post here on SOL on Wednesday, just as previous chapters have, so there is no need to rush out and buy the eBook just so you can read the end of the story. I wouldn't do that!
Have you noticed, by the way, that scheduled chapters of serials are now being posted in the morning Eastern Time rather than the evening? Personally, I like that a lot. Thank you, Laz!
Of course, the celebration is just beginning. I drove the 320 miles to Seattle from my camp in Idaho yesterday. Tons of general business to take care of and dinner with daughter. Lunch with family and friends today and then I need to go out and get beautiful this afternoon. I haven't had a professional haircut in three years. Normally, I think of it as a waste of time and money, but I chopped my long lovely graylocks off this spring while I was traveling and spent nearly a month with only bottled water. It was hard enough to keep the short hairs clean.
So, I'm starting the season of public appearances with a pro haircut and a trimmed beard. I even have a couple of disposable razors so I can scrape the exposed skin. Tomorrow is the big day for the launch party. We're gathering at the Chandler Reach Winery Tasting Room in Woodinville, WA at 4:00 to celebrate. If you are in the Seattle area Sunday, stop by and join us.
Then starts the hard work. I'll be headed back to Idaho on Monday, then down to Walla Walla, WA next Saturday for a book signing there. Two weeks later, I'll be at the Skin to the Wind Festival at Sun Meadow to sign books and talk to people au naturelle. I'll be hitting a few blogs during the next week and hope to set up more events this summer, culminating in the PNWA Literary Conference in September. We'll see how that goes. I've been 'invited' to Indiana in August, but doubt I'll try to make that trip for just a day or two. Never can tell, though, what sort of trouble I'll get into this winter.
I will not be moving City Limits behind the paywall as previously anticipated. I have evolved a different method for handling the multiple venues and the story on SOL will not be affected. I'll change the End Note accordingly. You should, however, note that the version on SOL is and will continue to be a pre-release version. I have found a few spelling and punctuation errors that I've corrected but I won't be correcting things of a more substantive nature. For example, in the release version there are some changes in chapter and subsection titles and in a few subsection breaks. These were deemed necessary as we were reviewing the pre-release and fine-tuning it for publication. Those things will not be changed in the SOL version.
So what comes next from Wayzgoose? I have written about one-and-a-half chapters of Wild Woods, the sequel to City Limits. But a writing project like this takes months and won't be ready until next summer. I'm not like aroslav, ripping out a few thousand words a day!
I have, however, decided to release my cyberdetective mystery, For Money or Mayhem, on SOL. I've scheduled Chapters 1 and 2 to post on July 13 with a new chapter every three days thereafter. Here's a little about the new release:
Someone has his fingers in the till.
"I spend most of my time in cyberspace, a world my girlfriend has dubbed 'Nowhere Land.' But the streets I walk are every bit as real to me as the rain-splashed sidewalks of Seattle. And when I find a thief, I'll run him to the ground. I hate thieves and I'm a bad-ass in cyberspace."
Computer forensics detective Dag Hamar has been hired to help a credit card company beef up network security, but are his new co-workers helping him or attacking him? Security video doesn't lie, does it?
Dag is about to get dragged from behind his computer screen-away from the comparative safety of cyberspace-into the gritty streets of Seattle where an online predator has become a real-life serial kidnapper.
For Money or Mayhem was published in 2013. There is a sequel. For Blood or Money, originally published in 2007 that I'll be posting here as well. I'm well into the writing of a third, For Mayhem or Madness, that will have Dag racing around the world to stop a cyber-terrorist. Or is he planning to help him?
Why am I releasing books that have been in the market on Amazon and other venues in both paper and eBook here on SOL for free? I'll tell you straight out, I'd like more people to read my books and I've got a pretty good backlist. I get more and better feedback, more readers, and more joy out of posting on SOL than any other venue. So, as the scam artist I got email from yesterday said, "I'm giving away my fortune and I'd like you to have a part of it."
You don't even need to send me your bank account number and password. I just hope you keep enjoying the stories!
You'll be able to see pictures from the City Limits release party and some of my notes about it on Monday on my blog at firstexit0.blogspot.com. Probably not until late in the day Pacific Time.