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SANCTUM updates

On By Luther M. SilerIn WritingLeave a comment

fdt0u5Note to my beta readers:  I am currently washing the blood out of my eyes as I scramble to get everything edited and prettyified in order to get the final-ish manuscript out to you guys before my self-imposed deadline of tonight.  I may blow said deadline and have to send the stuff out tomorrow.

Why final-ish?  Mostly because I need to write the foreword and right now I do not care about the foreword.  But if you agreed to be a beta reader (or if you’re reading this now and you’re interested) you can expect a file tonight or tomorrow.

I have a wedding to go to tomorrow, which ought to be fun, and then it’s Sunday, and then back to work again on Monday.  I plan to spend all of Sunday cleaning everything I can see, so I really only have today to get this done.  The good news is that it’s 1:30 and my wife and son won’t be home for another three and a half hours or so.  The bad news is that three and a half more hours of editing will mean that I may as well replace my eyes with glass marbles.

I MAKE SACRIFICES FOR MY ART, PEOPLE.

Just think, soon it’ll be done.  And then I get to start working on the next thing!  I’m not even sure what the next thing is right now!  Let’s all be excited about that.

ANNOUNCEMENT: SANCTUM OF THE SPHERE available for pre-order!

On By Luther M. SilerIn Writing5 Comments

Sanctum_72dpi…well, the ebook version of it is, at least.  If you liked The Benevolence Archives and are interested in the sequel (and that’s absolutely everybody, right?) you can pre-order it from Amazon right here, for just $4.95.

A couple of important pieces of information:

  • The plan is for Sanctum of the Sphere to release in digital and print simultaneously.  I don’t have a final price for the print version yet, but I basically plan to take what they’re charging me and add somewhere in the range of $3-4 to it.  I will try and have print available for pre-order too; I’m not actually sure CreateSpace does that, though.  One way or another, the release date is April 28th for both versions.  If the print version becomes pre-orderable, I will obviously let everyone know immediately.
  • Also: the print version of the book will contain the entire text of The Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1  as bonus material!  I don’t think BA 1 will ever see print on its own– at 30K words, it’s just too short– so if you’re interested, this is the best time to grab it.  The ebook version will be Sanctum only.  I figure ebook people have had ample opportunity to grab BA 1 for free by now, and since Amazon won’t let me perma-free it, I don’t like the idea of charging for the same story in two different packages.  Volume 1 will remain free essentially forever.  Sanctum, much like Skylights, will never be part of a free promotion, but it’ll go on sale now and again.
  • Remember, if you’re a Goodreads person (Goodreadser?  Goodreadsian?) you can add The Sanctum of the Sphere to your shelves here.

The next project in the Benevolence Archives universe is going to be another short story collection– at around the same cost as BA 1 but hopefully a bit longer.  I have at least one other book to get to before that happens, though.  Which… man, that’s a weird feeling.

One more announcement coming today, not as big of a deal as this one, but I’m gonna give this a few hours to own the front page by itself.  The site’s gonna get reskinned later today too, but I won’t start really trying to push pre-orders until a couple weeks before launch, so don’t worry that the blog’s gonna get eaten by advertising again.  I just found out yesterday you can make books available 90 days before release and don’t need a finalized manuscript, and figured I had no reason to wait.  The overall plan hasn’t changed.  🙂