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chopper does his happy dance

Posted 11th September 2011 at 12:55 AM by chopper

oooo! look! a five-star review of Midwinter Fury on amazon.com! this calls for a celebratory Marmite sandwich!

hmmm. this means i should probably try to complete the third book very soon...
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Bad Review...

Posted 4th January 2011 at 11:03 AM by chopper

Ladies and gentlemen, the first review is in - and, let's face it, it could have been worse. Not one to brag about, more one to blog about. Two stars out of five....

On the plus side, he liked the writing. On the debit side, he thought there wasn't enough of it. Reasonable point, and one that perhaps I should make a bit clearer on the product pages - Empire Dance isn't intended to be a single "doorstopper" volume; the idea is to be a "saturday serial" kinda affair,...
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mass communication breakdown

Posted 8th December 2010 at 11:00 PM by chopper

Hmm. apparently i could reach approximately 279000 people in the UK (all of whom list science fiction as an interest) with an advert on Facecrack. y'know, one of those diddy things in the corner that nobody pays attention to. obviously i'd have to have a budget of some kind, and an idea of how long i'd want it to run. would it be worth it, i wonder? how many people actually click on those ads? (how many people click on the Google ads at the top of the page here?) how far would this translate into...
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does this look right?

Posted 18th November 2010 at 09:25 PM by chopper

Been playing with Photoshop again, I'm afraid. The cover for ED2 won't draw itself, after all.

Now, I've been thinking a bit about this: the book is called Midwinter Fury, as part of the action happens on a world called Midwinter. So my first thought was to carry over the "sunburst" motif from ED1's cover; my second was to attempt to find something to illustrate the contents. My third was to alter the text colour to match the general ice/cold theming.

Two...
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Slow development

Posted 29th May 2010 at 09:56 AM by chopper

Vol.2 of the Empire Dance is proceeding apace - but I've had to make the decision (not easy) that after this I will need to put the project on the back-burner for a while so that the Curse does not suffer. Getting my head out of space-opera mode and back into epic fantasyland will be a bit of a wrench.

But, on the plus side, I'm rather happy with the way ED has been developing, both in my head and on (virtual) paper. When I first resurrected the idea and decided to break it into manageable,...
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