A Winter of Ambitious Writing

I've set an ambitious plan for the winter of 2013-14. I came about this idea with the completion and publishing of my fourth novel and the second of the Ben Jensen series.

The hardest thing for a writer to do, is successfully promote his work. It's hard because for the most part, there's no fun in it. It is simply work. The same as mucking out a stall when you own horses. No One runs out to buy a horse so that they can shovel road apples! How-some-ever it is a necessary task that goes with the joy of Horses.

Now, writing itself is not an easy piece of work but it is an indescribable joy. If you've done it correctly. At the end of the day you are as exhausted as you are when you buck twenty tons of hay into the barn. The joy is that it's that Good sort of exhaustion. That sort where you look at the barn and it's full of hay. That rewarding sort of feeling that you've accomplished something good.

When you look at the page at the end of the day, and your imagination has strung together 5,000 words of a story, and Good words too, it lights up a feeling inside that puts a smile on your face.

So there's those two competing hard jobs in writing. The writing itself that fulfills something your soul requires, and then the stall mucking labor of marketing.

What I realized when I'd finished Shadow on the Mountain is that I dropped the ball, badly, after the last book. In doing so, I lost the momentum that had begun building.

With an author competing against something over 50,000 new titles being published ever year, in just the United States... lost momentum is something a word whittler can't afford.

I allowed myself to be distracted by life and small things and took waaaaay to long to create the next story. When you've captured reader's imaginations and succeeded in leading them to gain a true liking for a character... leaving them hanging... waiting on the continuation of the story... is just wrong, and a publishing mistake!

When good people choose to risk their money and time in a writers story, that writer has accepted a duty to provide that story. When it comes in the form of a Series... that means he must roll out the next installment of the story in a reasonable time... No Excuses!

Soooo... my Ambitious Plan for this winter is to create the next two installments of the Jeb Taylor Series AND the Ben Jensen Series and have them ready to publish by April.

That means... no distractions permitted. Disciplined placement of my behind in front of the keyboard for goodly periods of time at least five days a week... and a near total immersion in the stories I have outlined.

This winter, the Arizona Desert is going to echo with the sound of tap tap tap tap tap tap tap ... as I wear out the buttons on this new toshiba laptop!

~ BK Gore

The Ben Jensen Series is Growing. Shadow on the Mountain is Published.

My latest novel is Published! I just finished uploading to Amazon this morning. It got uploaded last night and is available at Smashwords Now! In the next few hours and days it should work smoothly through the distribution chain and be available at your favorite retailer.

This story takes Ben and Amanda into a full scale murder mystery and from what my early readers have told me it held their attention right to the end.

Follow this link and download your FREE copy of the series starter ~ A Pair of Second Chances. That will have you up to date and ready to continue the story in; Shadow on the Mountain!

Many Many thanks for your time and consideration.

~ Brian

"A Matter of Honor" and "A Pair of Second Chances" are BOTH now FREE!

 My first Novel, A Matter of Honor, and the series starting volume of Jebediah Taylor's story is Now Priced at FREE at Smashwords. That should work through the retailer chain in fairly short order.

My second series, the Ben Jensen series Also has its starting Volume, A Pair of Second Chances, now Priced FREE as well.

These are permanent changes for the pricing of these two books to allow you to "taste" the characters and their stories. 

It may take a short while for the pricing to work it's way through the chain but I expect that to happen quickly. Amazon has already reset the price for HONOR... and I expect A PAIR to follow suit shortly.

Here's an introductory Video you might enjoy for BK Gore the Author, and A Matter of Honor...



Many Thanks
Brian

The Release of "Shadow on the Mountain" is Coming SOON!

Book #2 of the Ben Jensen series will be released soon. Editing is progressing well and should be finalized in the next week or so...

As Ben and Amanda work out their new lives together, they find themselves, willing or not, embroiled in a genuine murder mystery... 

You'll be able to find it very soon at Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Diesel, Amazon and several other Retailers of eBooks.

~ Brian

Shadow On The Mountain is Getting Awful Close to "Post" Production.

Shadow On The Mountain has taken some great leaps in the last few days. Things always seem to accelerate as the completion of a story approaches.

When the players in a tale begin to converge near the end I find myself sitting at the keyboard for hour stacking on hour; drinking coffee and typing away as fast as I can... wanting as much as everyone else to find out how the story ends!

In another couple of days the story will be complete and ready to spend the next few weeks editing and polishing.

I've got to edit, edit and re-edit the text, build the Cover, correctly format the manuscript... and... find the dinero to replace MS Word that was trapped/lost on my decayed Dell computer that was replaced last fall.

I've been writing on a "Freeware" copy of Open Office. It appears very similar to "Word" but, I've found it apparently has a few quirks that don't fit well into Amazon's system.

Since my main distributor, Smashwords, has a Style Guide that directs a man of limited computer literacy, step by prescribed step, through the intricate maze of properly formatting a manuscript, for ebook publishing, using the MS Word program, and since it is THE industry standard platform...

.... I'm not gonna fight the flow of the river...

... I'll be, somehow, replacing that program ASAIC (as soon as I can) to eliminate that one source of stress and torment that I can.

With any luck at all my newest Novel will hit the electronic shelves in the next six weeks...

... and making any such prediction is likely to prove to have been a foolish thing to do... considering that Murphy is still on the loose and un-imprisoned.

~ BK Gore

Ben Jensen, The Future is Murder...

My next Novel to be Published; "Shadow on The Mountain", the second book of the Ben Jensen series is coming close.

Being a distracted Gypsy Drifter sometimes invades my writing. I'm the sort that immerses myself in a story and the scenes roll through my head like a movie reel. It scares the neighbors to see an old pussgut mumbling to himself and banging away on the keyboard... but... it is how it is.

The problem arises when distractions yank out the power cord to the projector. It's not a machine that I have the ability to turn on and off at will. It takes time and  focused effort to put myself in that "place" where the movie reel cranks up and I can get to copying down the story before the screen fades. Get pulled out of that "creative place" and... Aw CRAP!

I am better at dealing with "the world" than I used to be, but still too long a ways from where I need to be. That world has little compassion for the problems of a wandering word whittler.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. So... in light of those many diversions, distractions, disruptions and wrong turns that have obstructed the completion of this, what I believe is developing as my best story to date; "Shadow" is getting very close to the close of this part of Ben's story.

I appreciate the patience of all my readers in waiting to see what the future held and holds for Ben and Amanda... and I can only say that, from my perspective... it held quite a bit!

Stay tuned! The future is on the way!
Brian