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Writing & Publishing 14 April 2013 Decided the short stories should not be written. Still going forward though with Behind The Scenes posts every Friday :-) 20 January 2013 Took me longer than 2 months but the short stories have begun being written :-) 9 April 2012 DEEP into the preparation for writing Stories from Angi. I may begin writing it within two months... 28 Oct 2011 Working hard to encourage those who've read Notes from An Alien to let us know what they want to see in the companion book, Stories from Angi :-) 2 May 2011 The Book Is Published :-) 24 Jan 2011 Just got the manuscript back from the editor! Now, the final revisions... 22 Dec 2010 Continuing to receive feedback on the manuscript through folks who've gotten the pre-publication copy & from those attending the live readings in Second Life. 3 Nov 2010 The copy editor is now working on the manuscript :-) 11 Oct 2010 Chapter 17, Sovereignty, chapter 18, Dominion, and chapter 19, Loftiness, posted on FastPencil. That's a full Manuscript!! Now, to print it out and edit for consistency and continuity :-) 9 Oct 2010 Chapter sixteen, Honor, posted on FastPencil. 8 Oct 2010 Chapter 13, Power, chapter 14, Speech, and chapter 15, Questions, posted on FastPencil. 1 Oct 2010 Chapter twelve, Knowledge, posted on FastPencil. 29 Sep 2010 Chapter eleven, Will, posted on FastPencil. 27 Sep 2010 Chapter ten, Might, posted on FastPencil. 24 Sep 2010 Chapter eight, Perfection, and chapter nine, Names, posted on FastPencil. 21 Sep 2010 Chapter seven, Words, posted on FastPencil. 18 Sep 2010 Chapter six, Mercy, posted on FastPencil. 15 Sep 2010 Revision of chapter five, Light, posted on FastPencil. 14 Sep 2010 First draft of chapter five, Light, posted on FastPencil 12 Sep 2010-afternoon... Revised version of chapter four, Grandeur, posted on FastPencil. 12 Sep 2010-very early morning... First draft of chapter four, Grandeur, posted on FastPencil. 06 Sep 2010 Major revision of chapter three, Beauty, posted on FastPencil. 31 Aug 2010 First draft of chapter three posted to FastPencil. 25 Aug 2010 Revision of everything: prologue and first two chapters. Posted to FastPencil... 20 Aug 2010 Finished the first draft of chapter two and posted it to FastPencil... 14 Aug 2010 Just posted the first three scenes of Chapter Two to the FastPencil site. The writing was surprising because the plot took a few turns that were very unexpected. Need a bit of feedback from our Reviewers... 10 Aug 2010 Working on chapter two... The plot is definitely thickening! 6 Aug 2010 Revised Preface and first draft of chapter one posted to FastPencil. 4 Aug 2010 Rough draft of chapter one is done. Should have clean first draft done by the weekend. 1 Aug 2010 Still far from actual publishing :-) The first draft of the Preface is posted on FastPencil and we're writing the first chapter now... |
Promotion 14 April 2013 The New Blog is the central hub for promotion -- Google Plus may be becoming another strong support... Twitter "failed" again and G+ gets more intriguing :-) 20 January 2013 Added Twitter back to Social Networking but only like Google Plus---links to blog posts... 9 April 2012 I've stopped using all social networking sites except Google Plus and, even there, I only give a link and some teaser -text. It's said to be good for page rank... Second Life and the Blog are my focus... 28 Oct 2011 After many months of struggling to make conventional "social networking" a method of promoting Notes from An Alien, we've decided to concentrate all our time on the blog and Book Island in Second Life... Check out this special blog post :-) 2 May 2011 The Promotion of the book will never stop... 24 Jan 2011 Working hard to integrate blogs, twitter, and FaceBook... 118 followers of the blog on this site and much comment activity on the other blog location (same posts in two locations...) 388 followers on Twitter. 8 Jan 2011 106 followers of the blog on this site. Started a new blog. 300 followers on Twitter. 22 Dec 2010 We now have 99 followers of our blog :-) 8 Dec 2010 Starting to integrate Twitter into our Promotion... 29 Nov 2010 We now have 70 followers of our blog through NetworkedBlogs :-) And, this Thursday, Alex starts Live Readings of the book in Second Life 16 Nov 2010 Continuing multiple pre-publication activities... 1,548 FaceBook friends. 6 Nov 2010 We now have a blog on the site :-) 3 Nov 2010 We now have over 1,400 FaceBook friends. And, starting Dec. 2nd, Alexander will be doing live readings of the book in 8 Oct 2010 1,003 FaceBook friends. Continuing to attend events in Second Life and promoting the book. Also, learning from other authors in SL about various promotion ideas... 27 Sep 2010 833 FaceBook friends. Continuing to attend events in Second Life and promoting the book. 21 Sep 2010 784 FaceBook friends. Continuing to attend events in Second Life and promoting the book. 18 Sep 2010 Considering post-publication promotion goals. 14 Sep 2010 717 FaceBook friends. Continuing to attend events in Second Life and promoting the book. 06 Sep 2010 630 FaceBook friends. Many more personal comments about the writing process. Continuing to attend events in Second Life. 31 Aug 2010 FaceBook friends now at 581 and I've continued posting interesting web articles but I'm adding many more personal comments about the writing process. Also, another writer read the 3rd draft of chapter one at a gathering in Second Life! 25 Aug 2010 FaceBook friends now at 445. 15 Aug 2010 friends up to 267--new plan: no moderation in new friends 'cause we'll give them all a free copy of the book :-) 8 Aug 2010 Somehow, we now have 195 friends on FaceBook... Also, did some promotion in SecondLife. 4 Aug 2010 Up to 145 friends on FaceBook--starting to be a bit choosy :-) 1 Aug 2010 Sena's activities in Second Life continue and she's begun to acquire friends on FaceBook--109 so far :-) Here's her FaceBook Profile. |
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