The tribe, er, the Coalition, has spoken!

What in the world is going on with RJ?

It has been far too long since I have written a blog post, so I decided today was the day, despite everything else I’ve got going on.

I recently sent out a survey to my email subscribers (thank you to all those who responded), and got some interesting feedback on what everyone wanted.

Two emails per month instead of one.

More books (trust me, I am going as fast as I can on this one! J), More blog posts (hence this post), and more social media interaction (I’m posting is much as I can on that one, but I’ll try for more).

So in light of all of that, I’m going to try to give everyone more in general.

So for my first blog post in the post – survey era, I’m going to give everyone an update on what I’ve got going on.

Writing

In my world of writing, I’m furiously trying to finish Death Cloud and get it to the editor. I’m HOPING for an October release (I know it has been too long, but I want to put out the best product possible), and to hit that I need to get the book to my editor by the Fourth of July.

After I get that off to the editor, I will write another Edgewalker book and get it published ASAP.

Depending on how much time I have after that, I will either write yet another Edgewalker story or get to work on the next Origins story, which I already have outlined.

So I’m a little ambitious, but I’ll try to do the best I can to get all the stories out as fast as I can. I greatly appreciate and am overwhelmed by the amount of encouragement and support you readers give me, and I want to send a big, THANK YOU!

Kickstarter

Another question in my survey was asking about Kickstarter, and how much interest there was from my audience. The results split into thirds – one who would for sure be interested, one who didn’t know what Kickstarter was but was interested, and the last who wasn’t interested.

Based off those results, and my research, I have decided to do a Kickstarter for Death Cloud! This will provide valuable resources to get the book published in an efficient and timely manner, while allowing me to do more with the book and series at the same time, if the goals are met.

More info to come, but expect the kickoff around 31 July.

Podcast

I am having an absolute blast with the podcast! The Guildies are awesome, we have a lot of fun each episode interacting with the audience, and from everything I hear people really are enjoying the show.

We will continue to have great episodes moving forward, and the amount of work involved is manageable so that we can continue to move forward with show.

We are super excited every episode we do, and thank you for allowing us to do it!

That’s it for now, hopefully I’ll have another one next week. Until then, keep on being awesome!