This is my first day “retired” after 27 years at Intel. Everyone tells me I should have a plan how to spend the first day. I don’t. I'm kinda thinking a beer for breakfast. Set the tone. Maybe ask my wife to bring it to me, so that she understands the tone too. I am sorry to say that Book 2 of Thaumatropic Roots will never be completed after my wife reads this newsletter and drops a toaster in my bath. Rude, right? What did you do, or what do you hope to do, the first day you retire? Joking aside, now I gotta find someone crazy enough to hire me: I still have to put three kids through college. It’s time to start collecting ARC readers for Bones of Cenaedth (BoC). My preference is to send out ebooks. It is not only cheaper, it is simpler. Ordering author copies through Amazon (which is how I have to handle paperbacks) takes a chunk of time and followup. Ebooks I can just email you with instructions to upload to your kindle. That said, I’m willing to send some paperbacks. It depends on how many ask. In this case, the more who ask, the less likely I will be to do it. (My variant of the prisoner's dilemma) Ha! I have a favor to ask - an experiment for me. I'm going to create a FB post with the link to the signup. I will send you to THAT, and you can click and enter your info - put in the same email you've already used for the mailing list, and it will just tag you in the system as an ARC reader for BoC. My request is for you to LIKE and COMMENT on the FB post. In theory, that tells FB that it's worth flashing in front of other fantasy readers with a kind of snowballing effect. Worth experimenting. This is the FB post to sign up for the ARC (click on it, like it, then sign up). If you find that's 100% broken for you, here's a direct link to sign up: https://pages.sjmorriswrites.com/bocarc All books by Steven J. Morris Indie Author ShowcasePrevious Newsletters
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A week-and-a-half after retirement, my buddy sent a pic from the gym room at work, asking where I was. My first thought was, "Why are they in the office on a Saturday?" It was Thursday. That shows where my head is. 🙃 I haven't hit a home run in my job search, nor has anything knocked my socks off. I had an opportunity that appealed to me more than others, working at a startup called Tenstorrent. Though I didn't get the job, I realized through the process that I really like the idea of a...
I would like to lock down my blurb so that I can send it to the cover editor. I took input from April, then made more edits. I’m open to suggestions. Also pretty happy with it. The Mother of Trees withers while the trolls prepare to conquer a crumbling world. The elves’ only hope rests on a desperate plan forged by a fanatical Warder with questionable motives. Elliah, a magicless elf cursed by prophecy, holds the key to either salvation or destruction. Forced into an uneasy alliance with the...
I've got the email sequence and epub ready for ARC readers. Sign up here for your FREE ARC epub of Book 2 of Thaumatropic Roots, Bones of Cenaedth. (It puts you on the same email list you're already on... it just tags you as an ARC reader and sends you the emails specific to the release.) All books by Steven J. Morris May you get lost this week in another world. Follow me on Goodreads. Subscribe