I finally got the next reading (chapter seventeen) of Magic’s Stealing uploaded! Enjoy. 🙂
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Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post – Reading Chapter Seventeen of Magic’s Stealing
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Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post – Reading Chapter Thirteen of Magic’s Stealing
Today I’m reading chapter thirteen of Magic’s Stealing, and I reveal a few sneak peeks of our upcoming game, Phalanx!
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Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post – Reading Chapter Twelve of Magic’s Stealing
Well, I think I’m finally starting to get the hang of using Premiere Pro and the new microphone. Sort of. I figured out that if I sat it in a pile of soft fabric (a.k.a. the bed), that it wouldn’t pick up the hum of the computer, and so the recording is a lot cleaner. At least until the water heater kicks on, and then all bets are off. *Sigh.* I did remember to turn off the main heater before I started recording though. And thanks to Isaac editing the play through video for Battle Decks, I figured out how to do all the main edits in Premiere Pro instead of using the Youtube editor. In the long run, that should save time, as long as I don’t wait until the last minute to do my recording.
In the meantime, chapter eleven of Magic’s Stealing! 😀
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Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post – Reading Chapter Eleven of Magic’s Stealing
Today I’m reading chapter eleven of Magic’s Stealing. Plus, I talk about the Goodreads giveaway that recently ended, promo cards for Infinitas Publishing, and show off a couple trial cards from Battle Decks: Trials of Blood and Steel. Enjoy! 🙂
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Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post – Reading Chapter Ten of Magic’s Stealing
Today I’m reading chapter ten of my young adult fantasy, Magic’s Stealing. Not much else in the news for now, other than continued progress on Battle Decks: Trials of Blood and Steel (I think it’s safe to say we’re releasing in February!) and continued progress on writing and editing The Shadow War. 😀
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Thoughts on Everything – A Cover Contest, A Giveaway, And A Bit of Twitter Fun
Today I’ve got a few various bits of news to share, from a fun cover contest, a Goodreads giveaway for Magic’s Stealing, and a bit of fun that can be had on Twitter. 🙂
Starting off…
Author Shout Cover Wars Contest
Last week, Paul Ferrante’s book, The Curse of the Fairfield Witch (which I did the book cover for), won the Author Shout Cover Wars contest and is currently this week’s Book of the Week.
Cover Wars is a fun contest that pits book covers head-to-head to see which can get the most votes for the week. It’s mostly for fun, but it’s neat to see all the options, and it hopefully affords authors a bit more visibility for their books.
Speaking of visibility…
Magic’s Stealing Goodreads Giveaway
If you’re in the US and looking for a chance to win a free, signed paperback copy of my YA fantasy novella, Magic’s Stealing, I’ve got a Goodreads giveaway going on from now until January 24th. I’m trying to promote the book, and I figured a giveaway would be a good chance. Not sure if it’ll help promote sales or not, but we’ll see how it goes. 🙂
In the meantime, if you want to see a Goodreads Giveaway from me but you’re not in the US (as I know several of my blog readers aren’t), let me know which countries you want to see a giveaway in, and I’ll run by the post office and see where I can feasibly ship review copies to. I’m hoping to do another giveaway later in the year if this one goes well, and I’d like to open it up to more than just the US. 🙂
Click here to enter the giveaway!
Lastly…
#1lineWed
Every Wednesday there’s #1lineWed fun on Twitter. Basically, there’s a theme posted every week, and you try to find a line to match that theme from one of your current works-in-progress. It’s a lot of fun, and a good way to meet another writers and see some really awesome lines.
This week, the theme was “Old.” These were my tweets:
“Her face revealed only parsimonious wrinkles, what he fondly referred to as marks of wisdom.” (The Multiverse Chronicles – written by both me and Isaac)
“Faint cracks ran along their stone skins from a long history of mortal fingers stroking the statues for favor.” (The Shadow War)
If you haven’t done so already, put it on your to-do list for next week. They usually announce the theme several days in advance, so if you’re not around for Wednesday, you can still schedule tweets (I use Tweetdeck) to go live at a later date.
That’s it for now. 🙂
I hope you enjoyed this post, and you can look for information about Battle Decks: Trials of Blood and Steel and The Multiverse Chronicles release dates to come very soon. 😀
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Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post – Reading Chapter Nine of Magic’s Stealing
Today I’m doing a reading of chapter nine from Magic’s Stealing, my YA fantasy novella. I’m using my new microphone, plus, I have a few updates regarding some of the other projects you should see coming soon from Infinitas Publishing. 😀
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Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post – Reading Chapter Eight of Magic’s Stealing
Today I’m doing a reading of chapter eight from my YA Fantasy, Magic’s Stealing. Better yet, I’m using my all-new Blue Yeti microphone I got for Christmas (Thanks Mom and Dad!). 😀
The sound should now be clearer than before, but since I’m still new to using the microphone, I may still need to make a few adjustments to get the best sound quality. Let me know if anything in particular stands out to you, or if it sounds good as-is.
In the meantime, I hope you enjoy listening to chapter eight. 🙂
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Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post – Reading Chapter Four of Magic’s Stealing
Well, I had planned on getting this post up yesterday, but there was fun holiday decorating to attend to. So the video a day late, but here is the reading of chapter four of Magic’s Stealing. In other news, I’ve finished proof-reading the print edition, which should be available on Amazon in a few days. 😀
I hope you enjoy this post. 🙂
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Thoughts on Publishing – A Video Blog Post – Reading Chapter Three of Magic’s Stealing
Today I’ve got another video blog post for you. I’m trying to move the video blogs to Mondays or Wednesdays to give me more time to prepare. In this one I’m reading chapter three of Magic’s Stealing. 🙂
Here’s the Youtube link in case you can’t see it.
You can hear the first chapter here.
Or chapter two here.
I’ve begun noticing a few tricks that are helpful when doing online readings.
The main one?
Slow down and enunciate.
This helps to prevent blurred phrases that don’t make sense once recorded, and lends to a natural pause between sentences. Having those pauses while reading allows for easier cutting in the editing phase, especially if you leave a longer pause where you know you’re going to cut something.
Then, once you take the recording into an editor like Premiere Pro, you can easily identify spots where you read a sentence twice and chop it without having to play that same sentence over and over (and over again) just to get a decent cut.
Also, once you get familiar with the program, you can figure out how to save the files correctly the first (or second time), rather than having the program complain that it can’t export properly with every format you try. In my case, I use the Microsoft Avi format (at least for now) to get the audio recording, and I have to remember to name the file I want to save before encoding it. Otherwise, it gives me an error.
The whole reading phase (including practice reads) and editing phase still takes me an hour or two. But it’s fun, and I enjoy getting to read the stories aloud. I blame being a Speech and Debate student in high school for four years for that one. Or maybe I was in Speech and Debate for four years because I enjoyed the readings…
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this post. 🙂
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