Goodreads Authors/Readers discussion

I know a lot of authors have upcoming releases and I'm creating a folder where we can mention these projects to our readers.

My next book, Dreams Reign Supreme, is a collection of short stories and poetry. I hope to have it out by late 2011/early 2012.

I'm currently working on it with my editor.

:)

-Vince

I'm in one of my busy parts of the year. I've had 5 releases so far in 2011 and have another two scheduled between now and July.

January 2011:

Hunter's Moon (NWW4) from Phaze in e-book

February 2011:

Raised to Be His Own (NWW- Histories) from Phaze in e-book

All's Fair... (IAGTM1) from Silver Publishing in e-book

BINARY STARS 8: Choosing A Mate/Starting A War (NWW-BINARY Histories) from Phaze in e-book

March 2011:

Daughters of Man: Prize Match (AW2) from Phaze


May 2011:

May The Best Man Win from Phaze


Spring 2011:

Monsters of Myth from Mundania Press, LLC. in e-book


Brenna

Wow, I'm major impressed. I usually shoot for two novels and one short story and feel that's a good output.

Richard Knaak here! Just joined this group on the recommendation of another member.

Three books out around the same time this year! :)

WOW: WOLFHEART (HC) Simon & Schuster - Oct

DRAGON MOUND (HC) Sea Lion Books - Oct

LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM VOL. III (TP Omnibus) Simon & Schuster - Nov

I currently have a giveaway for Vol. I going on for US, Canada, GB, and Australia

I've had 2 novels and a short story released as ebooks in the past couple of months. The novels are:

Assault on the Gods and

Mindflight.

The short story is a comic fantasy vignette called The World Where Wishes Worked.

My debut, Awaken the Highland Warrior comes out in a couple of weeks. I'm getting ready for a blog tour and I'm overwhelmed at the thought of trying to promote this book.

The second ebook in my series The Reboot Files is called the Island of Living Trees will be released on both amazon.com and Barnes and Noble NookBook in May. In August I'll release the third book in the series called The Harbinger of Retribution. The first book in the series The Mystery of Hurtleberry House is available now on both sites.

Congrats on all the new publictions! Here's my announcement:


After years of researching classical music and the Faust legend for my Non-fiction books, it was time to take a break and write something light and entertaining, ta da, my first novel:

"Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
(Due to be released c. May 21, 2011)

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Synopsis: Creative and impetuous, Katherine Walsingham has simple but grand plans after she receives her Masters degree in art--to defiantly strive for the highest ideals in her work contrary to modernist trends, and, like many artists, to open her own gallery, right in the heart of fashionable Manhattan, never suspecting the successes and triumphs, bumps and trials that will head her way. Consumed with her career goals and not prepared to settle down just yet, she discovers life and love have a strange way of turning all her best laid plans topsy-turvy ... with bittersweet consequences.

"Brushstrokes of a Gadfly" is a story brimming with vibrant and entertaining characters that only New York's High Society and art circles can provide. It is a colourful and amusing novel tinged with human tragedy.

Click here to read more from the Back Cover!

Free First Chapter Preview

E.A. Bucchianeri Thanks everyone!

'Out of Australia' to be released very soon, I have recently read my 'proof' copy & have noted a couple of adjustments to my publisher.

If you seek academically perfectly written poetry.... you will be disapointed.
If you seek easy to read from the heart poetry...you will be pleased.

This book is a journey for the reader covering 100 of my poems from my early to recent & as one reads you can see the progression of my style be it, Aussie 'bush' poetry, free verse, traditional rhyme & sonnets.

Hi everyone, that's amazing, you all seem able to write / publish at least two novels a year, while I've been at work for two years on my first novel. How do you do it? I'm amazed with authors who can create so fast. Maybe page lengths are different?

I enjoy good long character developments, especially when there are a lot of characters, maybe that's it, I find it difficult to keep a story within two to three hundred pages, my novel has run on quite a bit I must admit. (Looks likes it's heading for eight hundred or nine hundred pages so far.)

Anyone else have difficulties stopping a book?

I would have called myself BLESSED to write 800-900 pages in two years. You're fast enough, it IS the stopping that's the problem. In order to get that bad boy published, you'll probably need to break it up into a series of shorter novels.

Hi Sarah,

Whew, glad to know I'm not too slow.
Just to clarify,I've about 750 photocopy sized pages, and I'm guessing up to 900 pages when it converts into a 6x9 inch trade size book.

I think I can fit it in one book, I can go up to 1050 pages if needed. ( I tried making it smaller, honest, but the story wouldn't 'round off' properly.) And, my mind is already busy at work musing over a sequel. Yes, stopping is a big problem, people are complex, so are literary characters.


Edit Update: Holy Smokes! The novel has reached 1038 pages! I'll have to learn to be more like Hemmingway and write a novel in six words ...

Hello my little GR folk. It's nice to text you all again.
I have Short Shocks II coming out this year. Only got two more storeis to finish then, taataaaaaa!!!
Short blurbification (made that word up, can you tell?)for SSII:
Release the dark side of your mind with more terrifying stories that will linger in your mind.
Stories include: Nobody’s Inn, Dead Beat, Whose Choice?,Dial A Demon, Soul Trader and Whispers
Short Shocks II front cover
Sorry, couldn't get the pic to work :(

If you enjoy stories about conspiracies, hidden agendas, covert-ops, espionage, and betrayal, then you'll love Unsavory Delicacies, just released, and Pandora's Succession.


Both are sale for 99 cents for a limited time only.
The paperback edition of Pandora's Succession will be available Summer 2011.