[cfmillhouse]

Stefanswit,
Looking at your books at first glance I would have to say your books look like action/adventure.  But whatever you call it, I wish you all the best in your future books.  Once I have read some books I just bought I might give yours a look.
Thanks for posting.

 

[K. R. Whitaker]

    Hi Charles, and hello to all of you that have posted to the thread.  There's some interesting information added here that I'm going to look into.  Thanks for that!  Being an avid car nut, I'm also intrigued by the offerings by J.R.Mooneyham.  I'll definitely have to check those out when I stop writing long enough to read for enjoyment.

    Time Patriot is a science fiction story about a brilliant scientist working in Area 51 reverse engineering crashed alien spacecraft.  The story weaves a lot of surprising things together.  Just when you think you've got it figured out, you'll learn that nothing was as it seemed.

    Stone Warrior is my latest in the sci fi genre.  It's a new twist on an old theme, the underdog that turns into a superhero quite by accident.  I really enjoyed writing the first installment, and I plan on having a lot of fun with the series in the future.

Thanks for starting this thread Charles!

K. R. Whitaker

   

     

 

[rdavidking]

Charles, thanks for giving my book a chance. I hope you enjoy it. I'm glad you like the cover, I did it myself in old 3D graphics program I had. I'm still amazed since I don't consider myself an artist. I have other views that maybe I'll post on http://rdavidking.com one day.

 

[stubbyp]

I have done quite a bit of Science Fiction writing, mostly short stories and screenplays. One of my SciFi short stories is in my collection of shorts available on Kindle.


Dreaded Friday and Other Tales: A Collection of Short Stories

 

[Christopher Hunter]

Thank you for creating this thread, Charles!
My name is Chris, and I am in the middle of completing the final book of my trilogy. Hope to have it out by early July. In the meanwhile, the first two books are on sale for .99 each. And I'm starving to get that first review.

Best of luck,

CJH

 

[Susan MacDonald]

Hi, I've just joined Kindleboards today. I've published my first book in paperback and kindle, got my first review on Goodreads, and am now wondering what to do next! There's lots of good advice on this site and I'd like to participate, so am trying to create a signature and dive in. All advice welcome.

 

[Grady Hendrix]

I'm going to chime in. I write mostly funny stuff, but it's usually fantasy or sci fi-ish. I attended the Clarion workshop back in 2009 and have published some stories via Strange Horizons and Pseudopod and have a short story (called "Mofongo Knows") in John Joseph Adam's upcoming mad scientist anthology.

I write for a living (mostly YA and journalism - if you can call it that. Puff pieces?) and have my very own ebook up now on Amazon. It's called SATAN LOVES YOU:
http://www.kboards.com/book/?asin=B004XQWLLI

It just got its first review from Red Adept, and I'm really psyched about it:
http://redadeptreviews.com/?p=5339

Would love to hear how people have been promoting their books. And, also, any tips on cleaning up HTML! I'm just learning and I really want to get my stronger with my HTML kung fu. (I did SATAN in HTML and uploaded that to Amazon.)

 

[Colin Taber]

I got my proof copy today of my second book, Ossard's Hope. Just checking over the formatting before letting it go live and then organising the Kindle file to be formatted.

It's all go go go!

 

[cfmillhouse]

I'm toying around with the idea of putting together a network of independent science fiction writers.  Much like the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, but unlike the SFWA who only allow mainstream published writers, our group would before self-published writers only.  So what does everyone think of that Idea?  Suggestions anyone -

 

[Patty Jansen]

I'm a writer of SF (hard SF and space opera, plus some other stuff on the side).

I take the approach to work on all sides and all avenues open to emerging writers. I have worked hard at my short fiction, on the basis of which I've been able to join SFWA. I think it's worth working hard to improve your fiction so that you can get professional recognition. If nothing else, different doors open for you.

I've chosen to self publish a number of works. There are some re-publications of short stories that have been published elsewhere, and two novels. Despite the fact that I got good responses to both, neither sold in the end (but I walked away from a contract for one of the novels). Since I wrote those novels, my focus has shifted, and what I'm writing now is in a different subgenre.

I am still sending material to traditional publishers. I have consciously chosen to do so without an agent for the time being, for the reason mentioned above (a less-than-keen agent won't market yourwork, but you will be contractuallt tied up for years while the agents is not shopping your work). Most publishers in SF are open for non-agented submissions.

 

[Steverino]

Hi Charles and all you SFers,

I jumped onto the Kindle in March with Outrageous Fortunes, an alternate history novel that tries to push that sub-genre about as far as it can go.

Thanks for this thread!

 

[LDS]

@cfmillhouse - make it so, captain. I'd love to be a part of it.

 

[Betsy the Quilter]

Hi, I've just joined Kindleboards today. I've published my first book in paperback and kindle, got my first review on Goodreads, and am now wondering what to do next! There's lots of good advice on this site and I'd like to participate, so am trying to create a signature and dive in. All advice welcome.

Welcome to KindleBoards! Good job creating your signature. You can have your own book thread in the Bazaar, which will earn you one of the coveted KB Welcome Letters and allow you to be listed in Jeff's Master lists pinned to the top of the Bazaar. And you'll want to hang out in the Writers' Cafe to discuss author stuff, and check out the rest of KindleBoards to discuss books, tea, coffee, movies, music and much, much more!

Betsy

 

[cfmillhouse]

@LDS
I've been working on it and I'll contact you here on kindle boards when it goes live on the net.

 

[jnfr]

Science Fiction or Fantasy? I had an interesting experience with my novel-in-progress when I realized I could write it either way. My protagonist is visiting another world. I got her there through magic, but doing the world-building and alien races I realized I could have put her in a spaceship and called it science fiction. Different requirements for writing that, somewhat, but many requirements are similar. I usually end up with fantasy because I enjoy thinking out magic systems that have both logic and wonder behind them. I don't read as much hard sci-fi as I do fantasy, either, though I've read a ton of both over the years.

Nice to meet you all

 

[Colin Taber]

It's an interesting genre, that's for sure. There is so much flexibility in it and all of its subs.

 

[cfmillhouse]

You could call it Science Fantasy.  That's what I tend to write, since most of my science is made up.

 

[J.R.Mooneyham]

Although nowadays I'm heavy into 'hard' sci fi (and have engineering training and lots of personal research to back it up), as a teen I also liked the fantasy stuff, such as Lord of the Rings, and as a kid did some considerable LOTR-type stuff myself in my notebooks.

When I finally got around to writing my own science fiction epic, I couldn't resist including one book in the series with a considerable amount of LOTR style fantasy in it.

So how did I reconcile the fantasy world within my hard sci fi story? Via virtual reality: a massive V.R. to which people were hooked up, and experiencing it all with the same sense of reality that our most vivid natural dreams can offer. But of course, many of the people connected so were hooked up against their will, and physically restrained, and never allowed to know the truth of what was happening to them. So even if they managed to break into a lucid state within the dream, they could rarely gain advantage from that.

(And no, I didn't develop this story line after seeing the Matrix film; I had it fixed by around 1992; or some seven years before the Matrix was released. But yes, I failed to publish it until later on my web site, and only recently began publishing the whole series as ebooks. But the general idea is an old one anyway, having appeared in at least dozens if not hundreds of older sci fi books over the decades; and I'd read roughly 1000 total sci fi and fantasy books by college.)

This particular story forms the core of the third book in my sci fi series, which I'm presently in process of proofing/editing/converting to Kindle. Its two predecessors are already available (although only one of those would fit in my signature below).

 

[rdavidking]

I just got a nice 5 star review for my book Nanomech http://bit.ly/k4FRb7. I hope it helps some, because trying to sell your self-published work is hard. Really hard. Any ideas from the folks on this discussion thread about how to market your books without having to spend hours a day posting over and over again in the Kindle forums?

 

[Patty Jansen]

Wow, JR, a fellow hard SF nut. I do write other stuff, but at the moment most of my new writing is hard SF.