PeterAndTheVampires.com by Darren Pillsbury: February 2011

Monday, February 28, 2011

"Peter and the Boogeymen" Page 58 and 59

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Friday, February 25, 2011

"Peter and the Boogeymen" Page 54 thru 57

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Announcement

We interrupt this regularly scheduled broadcast...

What up, folks. I thought I would let you know about some exciting things in store in the next month or two.

I'll eventually be publishing the Peter stories on a variety of ebook platforms. Definitely the Kindle and the Nook, plus several others. At some point, the books will also be available in print.

No, I don't have a publishing deal. It's just little ol' me going it alone.

What I plan is to do is to publish PETER AND THE VAMPIRES (Dead Men thru Swamp Monster) first. It will probably be for free, although I don't know that for sure.

Then I'll publish PETER AND THE WEREWOLVES the month after (Mannequins thru Werewolves). I'll probably price it between $0.99 and $2.99, but again, I haven't made up my mind yet.

I'll continue to publish the stories after that until I've reached the current book, which is PETER AND THE MUMMY (Helpers through the next story after Boogeymen).

There's some changes that will be going along with that.

1) This blog will eventually go away. In fact, I'll probably start deleting the posts before BOOGEYMEN fairly soon, but I'll keep the comments (I want to keep those in place as a sort of record - if for nothing other than to memorialize "What a guy"). I will, however, finish out BOOGEYMEN at the very least, and maybe the next story. Don't know yet.

2) I'll shift more daily blogging, just about 'stuff,' over to www.DarrenPillsbury.com (which will be much improved over its current state). I definitely hope everybody comes and checks that out, and that I'll see all of my regular commenters (and "long-time-readers-first-time-posters," hint hint) over in the new blog.

Now, some of you are asking, "HEY! What does this mean for ME the reader?!"

Wellll...there's a small minus, but a mighty big plus.

The minus is that you'll have to start paying for the stories.

(For those of you shouting, "I don't have a Kindle or a Nook!", never fear: you can download a free Kindle app for your computer and read ebooks on your desktop or laptop.)

The big pro is that, after a four month hiatus while I publish the first four books, the stories should start coming a LOT faster.

Right now you guys are getting stories at (roughly) the rate of one page per day. 365 pages a year, give or take. That's about a book every 9 months or so, on average. (By the time we get to the end of Book 4, it will be almost 3 years since I started this blog.)

If I can make some good bucks at this self-publishing route, I'll be turning PETER into my day job.

Which means I hope to be cranking out a book's worth of stories every 3 months.

So, potentially, you'll be getting 3 times as many PETER stories per year...for the paltry sum of $2.99 per book (at most - maybe $0.99 per book).

I haven't worked out all the details yet, but that's what I've got going on in my head right now.

Why the seismic shift, you ask? I'll go into it more in a later post, but there were some pretty massive shake-ups in the past year - not only in my life, but in the ebook industry as a whole.

The Kindle has become the best-selling item on Amazon...EVER. Ebooks now account for over 10% of book sales, even with the relatively few numbers of e-readers out there. And a handful of first-time authors are making enough money off their works that they're able to write for a living.

And I can do this without having to go through a freakin' agent and traditional publisher.

It seems that now is the time to strike. Start to bring PETER to a larger audience, and try to achieve my lifelong dream of being a writer whose day job is to...wait for it...write for a living.

Anyway, we're probably a month or two from the beginning of this scheme, but I thought I'd give you a heads up.

Let me know your thoughts in the Comment section!

And the next pages in BOOGEYMEN will be arriving in the next day or so.

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