As I suggested was possible with my last update, I need a couple extra days to finish a couple of things off. Because New Year's Day is kind of an awkward time to do a large release of things in general, I'm going to be moving things back until Monday, January 5th. Pretty much everything is ready and in place, but I just want to use those extra days to relax and finalize a few things.
So, with that said, Happy New Year's! (in a few hours for most of you and shortly ago for some of you). Take a look at my previous post to catch up on all that I will be releasing next Monday. Expect my next blog update on Sunday evening.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Friday, December 19, 2014
A Summary of the Next Three Years
It has been a long time in the waiting, but we are now just days away from the official launch of this website and my first book, Crystal Palace: The Coming Storm. I cannot adequately write just how excited I am for this. Developing this website in every aspect as well as all of the writing and detail that have gone into it have been exhausting to say the least. But January 1st is just around the corner.
For those of you unfamiliar with my site or my writings (which this early on will be most every one of you), I am Trevor A. A. Evans, the owner of Thirteen Crossroads Publishing and the creator of its website. For the last year, I have been preparing everything to launch my career as an author, and it has been a slow, tiring journey.
To be brief (since I have written many other things I would rather you read), I will on January 1st (assuming all goes well between now and then; I reserve the right to push back the date a few days if I need to) be releasing the below novels, novellas, and short stories:
For those of you unfamiliar with my site or my writings (which this early on will be most every one of you), I am Trevor A. A. Evans, the owner of Thirteen Crossroads Publishing and the creator of its website. For the last year, I have been preparing everything to launch my career as an author, and it has been a slow, tiring journey.
To be brief (since I have written many other things I would rather you read), I will on January 1st (assuming all goes well between now and then; I reserve the right to push back the date a few days if I need to) be releasing the below novels, novellas, and short stories:
- Crystal Palace: The Coming Storm (novel; appx. 500 pages)
- The Mines (novella; appx. 100 pages)
- Crashing from Heaven (novella; appx. 100 pages)
- The Dead Seas (short story; appx. 40 pages)
- The Tradesman (short story; appx. 40 pages)
- A Journey South (short story; appx. 40 pages)
- The Outcast and the Survivor (chapter 1; appx. 30 pages)
The novel ($6) and novellas ($3) will be available for the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook. Softcover copies will also be available on Amazon.com for about twice the price of the electronic copies. The short stories, including the first chapter of the Outcast series, will be available on my website thirteencrossroads.com free of charge, though I will release them for Kindle and Nook as well further down the road for a small fee (likely $.99).
I would also like to use this entry to clarify the release schedule that I will be working with over the next three years (this information is also on my site). In addition to a large number of short stories (one each month), novellas (one every three months), chapters from the Outcast series (one chapter a month, 36 chapters total), and essays, I will be releasing two three-book series over the next three years (so six novels total). Below is the release schedule:
- Destiny Book I - June 30th, 2015
- Distant Souls Book I - December 31st, 2015
- Destiny Book II - June 30th, 2016
- Distant Souls Book II - December 31st, 2016
- Destiny Book III - June 30th 2017
- Distant Souls Book III - December 31st, 2017.
As you can tell, it will be a busy three years, especially considering all of the other stuff (mostly free) that I will be throwing in there as well. I am genuinely overjoyed to officially begin this three-year writing marathon. With the website in place (though I'll tinker, especially as new novels are released), I can again focus mostly on writing, something I have been greatly looking forward to. This journey should be fun, and I hope you join me for it.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
New Blog: An Update
It has been a long many months, but I am at last reaching the final stretch. Crystal Palace: The Coming Storm is in its last stages of editing. Once that is done in the next month, I will apply any needed polish and submit it for copyright and publication. I couldn't be more excited!
The website is coming along nicely as well. I have to say that I am very proud of it. The code is neither glamorous nor complex, but it does what I need it to, and I think it looks great. The artwork and navigation also worked out more than I could have hoped.
I appreciate those of you who are following along with me here at the beginning. This will be quite the adventure. Building this website and figuring everything out for publication and marketing has been quite a challenge, and it will continue to be. But at least I have a better of understanding of everything that goes into it. That will mean a lot more time writing, which is what you care most about.
That brings me to this blog. You'll notice that it's not actually done within my website but is in fact an external link to blogger. See, I wanted to have a simple blog, but designing and implementing one directly into my website required integrating software such as WordPress or developing my own. Either one would have muddied up the simple coding standard I wanted to maintain for this site to keep it smooth. So, I decided to use a Google Blogger account instead.
You see it in my website because I used an iframe. This means that you are viewing a window inside of my website that shows this blog at thirteencrossroadspublishing.blogspot.com. For the most part, you should be able to navigate it without leaving the website. But if you want to post a comment or log in to post comments, it may be quirky and force you to open the blog in an external window. A minor annoyance, I know, but humor me as this option was so convenient that I couldn't resist the minor hiccups that might accompany it. It still looks fairly good, though, and I hope you find its simplicity easy to work with.
The website is coming along nicely as well. I have to say that I am very proud of it. The code is neither glamorous nor complex, but it does what I need it to, and I think it looks great. The artwork and navigation also worked out more than I could have hoped.
I appreciate those of you who are following along with me here at the beginning. This will be quite the adventure. Building this website and figuring everything out for publication and marketing has been quite a challenge, and it will continue to be. But at least I have a better of understanding of everything that goes into it. That will mean a lot more time writing, which is what you care most about.
That brings me to this blog. You'll notice that it's not actually done within my website but is in fact an external link to blogger. See, I wanted to have a simple blog, but designing and implementing one directly into my website required integrating software such as WordPress or developing my own. Either one would have muddied up the simple coding standard I wanted to maintain for this site to keep it smooth. So, I decided to use a Google Blogger account instead.
You see it in my website because I used an iframe. This means that you are viewing a window inside of my website that shows this blog at thirteencrossroadspublishing.blogspot.com. For the most part, you should be able to navigate it without leaving the website. But if you want to post a comment or log in to post comments, it may be quirky and force you to open the blog in an external window. A minor annoyance, I know, but humor me as this option was so convenient that I couldn't resist the minor hiccups that might accompany it. It still looks fairly good, though, and I hope you find its simplicity easy to work with.
This blog isn't for essays or short stories. It's for updates on what I'm working on and what I'm up to in general. When I do new posts for it, I'll be putting links for those new posts on my Twitter account (XIII Crossroads) and Facebook page (Thirteen Crossroads Publishing). So follow me there to keep up with my updates. And again, thank you for following along.
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