Thursday, September 29, 2011

H.E.R.O. - Rise and Fall released into the wild!

As of today H.E.R.O. - Rise and Fall (Book 3) is available for the Kindle!  Shortly (as soon as they 'clear' it) the Nook version will be available - it'll happen automatically either tonight or tomorrow (Friday).

Createspace cleared ordering of my paperback proof copy as well, and I ordered that.  Now to wait a week(ish) to see if the cover, binding and physical layout look good on it before I make the paperback available.

By the way, if it looks odd that I put out Book 3 so soon after Book 2, it had more to do with waiting on the edits and the cover for Book 2, and Book 3 just happened to take far less time for those things.  So the appearance is that it only took a few weeks, when it actually took longer to make Book 3, there was just a time overlap as other things happened on Book 2.

Had a great workout this morning, weights went up on the decline press, incline press, and dips, and added reps to the bench press.  Got together with a bunch of buddies this evening to celebrate birthday stuff, so that was cool.  Bars sure are nicer to be in with them being smokeless now.

--Kev

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Busy Day

Today I began writing book four of the H.E.R.O. series.  I'd already written a rough outline for a good chunk of the novel, but this put the first actual 'words to paper,' so to speak.  It certainly starts out different than the other novels.  :)

I also created the graphics for Razorwing and added him to the character list on the H.E.R.O. tab of the website.  I'm rather pleased that I succeeded in matching my description in H.E.R.O. - Rise and Fall.  One reason for creating some of these characters prior to being used in a novel is that it is far easier to generate the graphics for a character, and then describe them in a book.  The reverse requires a lot of hunting for graphics files and texture editing.

Speaking of H.E.R.O. - Rise and Fall, it's nearly done with the final edit, and I'll be getting it out for the Kindle in a day or two.

--Kev

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

New H.E.R.O. Character - Rayna

I've added Rayna to the list of H.E.R.O. characters.  She has a brief bio as well as sixteen pictures of her with her three B's.

On a side note, I'd like to point out that the H.E.R.O. novels are an ongoing series.  They aren't a trilogy or other set number of books - rather they are more like a television series of episodes (granted, fairly long ones).

Random Initial Thoughts

I've got my core website I've been keeping up for a while, but I figured I'd share some of my thoughts in a blog for everyone.

H.E.R.O. - Rise and Fall (book 3 of the H.E.R.O. ongoing series) is at the final editor.  The cover has been created and tweaked from numerous angles until I found one that shows everyone's faces and looks fairly good.  I'm keeping the styles (the gradient background) on each of the novels to make them easily identifiable as a series.  This one I'm going to put out for $0.99 as an e-book (the others are $2.99).  I'm hoping to find a way to give it away for free for a month at the beginning, though I'm hearing that doesn't always work out right.

Last night I spent most of the evening working on a new character for the H.E.R.O. universe.  This one will be a woman who creates small creatures with her powers, and she uses them to be a superhero.  Two other new heroes were added over the weekend.  I'm not giving away the details/background on them yet as they haven't been put into a book yet - but I wanted the look and feel of the characters generated before I got into the writing for H.E.R.O. book 4.

Had a great back and biceps workout this morning.

--Kev