Plugging along!

Keep on swimming, keep on swimming...

Just a note to say things continue to move forward, or possibly a bit to the side like......

The first copy of the Third Key is back from test reading and I am going through the comments and making adjustments. Still waiting for more, but I know for a fact they are under way, so we are hopefully on target for an unannounced release date.....

Additionally, I am working on some revisions to the Kalijor RPG main book, and adding a bit to the Avian sourcebook (Winged elves anyone?)

I should be laying out the costume for Taeva tomorrow and Friday, and cutting and cleaning it up after Christmas. Shouldn't take too long to build out, but the details will take a while, so I need to get this part done as quickly as possible. The boots are in, so we're getting there!

Okay, moving on. Talk to you all later!

Paul

Sticking with it...

Not that it's a huge chore or anything. It's just remembering to post periodically that seems to constantly vex me...

So, I built a couple quizzes for fans of teh books. You can find them over at Goodreads.com if you are interested.

Other than that, I don't have a lot going on just now. The books I ordered for Mysticon shipped today, so I should have them before New Year's eve. I also ordered two pair of boots for Taeva, one for the Riana Fantasy cos-play and one for the Riana Sci-Fi cos-play. THose have also shipped, and should be arriving in the next week or so.

I should be starting her outfit this weekend as well. I don' timagine that will take too long to make, but I wanted to get a jump on it so I have time for the details this round, especially as she'll be using this one a lot more than Selene used/will use the other one I made. Looking forward to doing it again too. Lots I'd like to do differently, and I can, now that I have some time to do so.

More soon, so stay tuned!

Ciao

Baby Steps...

Okay, so a friend of mine just turned me on to this website, goodreads.com.

Alright, so it wasn't such a huge leap, in retrospect, but it wasn't something I knew about before. Mostly as a function of my being really bad at this self-promotion gig that writing these books has sort of thrust upon me.

All that aside, however, the site looks to be pretty awesome, especially if you are looking for a place to find a good book that is right up your alley. THere are tons of reader reviews so you can get to the simple truth of how good a title is pretty quickly.

Add to that, the fact that it is cross-indexed and hot-linked like any good wiki, and suddenly it's an extremely powerful tool for both authors, and readers.

So. Those of you who know me, probably know that I don't make New Year's resolutions. Instead, I resolve to keep any resolutions I make during the year. As such, I am now resolving to pay more attention to this blog, and really step up the promotion of Kalijor!

2011 is going to be a strong year for us here at Kalijor Press... There is somethign in the wind...

It's been ~how~ long?! Yeesh....

Okay then....

Has it really been... what? Months? Since my last journal update?

All I can say is, I apologize, to those of you who read and, for whatever reason, look forward to these updates. I'm really bad at keeping up on them, and this is the one I do most often. Which is sad, if you consider the fact that I have a blog on my Kalijor.com web space and I am trying to break down the doors of the literature world.... *sigh*

Well, at any rate, I have not been sitting on my laurels over here...

We broke even at Mile HIgh Con, which was pretty good considering how terribly organized and run that convention was. THe fans were awesome though, and I met and chatted with a ton of amazing people. I got a lot of new insights into the publishing world, and am happier every day that I am self-published and own my own Intellectual property. More hope for the future of the franchise!

While at Mile HIgh Con, we were invited to Mysticon, which is in Colorado Springs, the weekend of January 21st. So we'll be there all weekend. It's a new convention and is all about faeries, fae, and other faerie tale worlds, but will be sharing a hotel with a science-fiction convention as well, so the whole thing should be amazing, and the audience will be right up our alley!

Taeva, who is posing as Riana in the couple of pics I posted from Mile High Con, has agreed to become the official model and face of Riana and Katrina for our trips to cons, as well as for all of our novel covers going forward. So now we have an official model, an amazing cover artist, and a dedicated group of phenomenal test readers. Add to that the growing legions of readers, and some great reviews, and I think we'll be just fine before too long, and should be expecting Lucas and Bruckhimer to be knocking on the door any day now!

After that, we have Star Fest in April, and We'll be trying to get to Nan Desu Con in September sometime, I think. I"m going to build a new cos-play for Riana, that Taeva will be wearing at Mysticon. It will be similar to the one worn by Selene at Star Fest, but unique, and much closer to what I was trying to do when I ran out of time making the original. Then I will be making a sci-fi cos-play for her to wear, so she can trade back and forth at Star Fest. After that, we'll start working on some Kat cos-plays for her!

Also, We're cleaning up one of the Kalijor short stories to use as a limited release book to be sold at conventions this coming year (2011). My intention is to have one short story book available per year, at conventions only, and then to collect them all into a compilation that will be offered through book stores once they are all done and have seen convention releases. So if you're a completist collector (like I am ) then you'll need to get to the cons, at least once a year, to get the short stories in their own covers!