"Thanks - this is really nice - now I want to see the whole book done like this! Maybe the character doesn't look quite like the mental image I had of Kolinski, but he's certainly menacing and psychopathic enough to work in this…"
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Red Wheels Turning now on Kindle
Red Wheels Turning, my new "steampulp" novel, is now available on the Kindle Store. Price is $4.50 (and at the moment, Amazon seem to be adding their $2 non-American surcharge if you live outside the USA - I have actually got them to remove it for my other two titles). You may want to wait a little before ordering it from outside the USA, or you can always go through Smashwords.From Christopher Belton,…See More
Hugh Ashton replied to Hugh Ashton's discussion Comments wanted on site in the group THE EMPORIUM
"Thanks, Gail. I have one blog already at http://BeneathGraySki.es - would two on writing and independent publishing be one too many?"
Gail Gray replied to Hugh Ashton's discussion Comments wanted on site in the group THE EMPORIUM
"Hugh:
One of the things my publisher at ATTM Press advised me to do before my book, Shaman Circus (not a steampunk book) was published was to do a blog and talk about the writing of the book, in addition to Facebook and Twitter. That's…"
Winfield H. Strock III replied to Hugh Ashton's discussion Nice words wanted. in the group THE EMPORIUM
"If you could send me the first couple chapters (twenty pages or so) I'll take a look."
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Comments wanted on site
How do you make a book site, especially for a book that has yet to be published? Here's my idea - comments welcome: Red Wheels Turning
Hugh Ashton replied to Hugh Ashton's discussion Nice words wanted. in the group THE EMPORIUM
"Did I send a copy to you? If not, my apologies."
Winfield H. Strock III replied to Hugh Ashton's discussion Nice words wanted. in the group THE EMPORIUM
"Sounds fascinating and right up my alley. I'm intrigued and eager to read your work."
Hugh Ashton replied to Hugh Ashton's discussion News from Kamakura in the group THE EMPORIUM
"PS - Web site is down while I convert it to WordPress."
Hugh Ashton replied to Ettrick's discussion Hugh Ashton's Red Wheels Turning
"It's a fascinating way to do a trailer - the hand-drawn images add a really great immediacy. I wonder what the whole book would be like done that way (that's not a serious suggestion – at this stage of the proceedings, anyway)."
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Ettrick replied to Hugh Ashton's discussion News from Kamakura in the group THE EMPORIUM
"Brilliant cover.
Congrats on the ranking. I hope the money from amazon gets sorted quickly.
a'best,
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News from Kamakura
Amazon seem to have spontaneously made my $5.99 Kindle download of Beneath Gray Skies into a free download (at least in the USA). I was not asked or consulted about this. Hope that this will result in some money coming to me, as I actually made it to #29 in the Kindle Free rankings - and #3 in the Historical genre. That means that at one time, only 28 Kindle titles in the world were doing better than my book. Now down to about #40, which is much better than I had ever hoped for.In other news,…See More
Hugh Ashton replied to Hugh Ashton's discussion Nice words wanted. in the group THE EMPORIUM
"Thank 'ee kindly, sir! Sent to you now."
Ettrick replied to Hugh Ashton's discussion Nice words wanted. in the group THE EMPORIUM
"Heya Hugh,
I'm up for a quick read and comment. I'd enjoy doing a short vid for it as well if you're amenable. The best communication line for me is eric.sagunt AAAATTTTTT gmail DDDDDOOOOOTTTT…"
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- A Brit who's been living in Japan and has recently published a novel which has large elements of Steampunk involved - Beneath Gray Skies. Working on a prequel with the same characters, for publication in 2011.
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Posted on May 25, 2011 at 5:03pm 3 Comments 0 Likes
My latest novel, Red Wheels Turning, is now starting to take its final form. It's quite close to our timeline, though it falls into the same universe as my previous alternate history novel, Beneath Gray Skies.
It's a prequel in that it's in the same universe as Beneath Gray Skies, and uses the same characters, but it does have some rather fantastic steampunk elements…
Continue Had other things on my mind
Posted on March 25, 2011 at 4:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
As you will see if you look at my profile, I live in Japan. We have had a number of distractions recently, and though I and my wife are actually pretty safe here (we haven't been hit by serious earthquakes or by any tsunami, and the nuclear crisis will almost certainly not affect us), life is not easy or certain at the moment.
However, the poor people further to the north of us are in a bad way, and will continue to be very…
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- At 4:39pm on November 30, 2010,
Lia Keyes said… - Welcome to the Guild, Hugh! Delighted and proud to have you with us.
- At 4:43pm on November 30, 2010, Lia Keyes said…
- It's funny - I was just admiring your Wordpress site when your membership approval notification popped up. Gorgeous site. Who designed it for you?
- At 5:00pm on November 30, 2010, Lia Keyes said…
- Okay, I might have to hate you now. That's truly impressive work. And you write, too? Grrrrr.... :)
- At 3:44am on December 1, 2010,
Gail Gray said… - Your novel look fascinating, Hugh! I'll put it on my Christmas list. Sounds like you must have done a good bit of research, despite it being alternate history. The research is often one of my favorite aspects of writing.
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Signing off. Will check back later.
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Gwen Ellery replied to Gavin Wilson's discussion Wattpad: a new approach to writing and reading."Oooh, good to know. I like this. As soon as I come out of Amazon Select for a title of mine, I'm going to dive into Wattpad with it. Darn Amazon is so good at favoring its Select titles, it's hard to make the break when you're just…"
Gwen Ellery replied to Gavin Wilson's discussion Wattpad: a new approach to writing and reading."That's right. Caitlin was her name. OK, I'll get on that asap that I have a cover for it I like.
Thanks for your tips and info, Gavin. And for helping to make mobile a major format for ebooks. Things are really taking off internationally…"
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You're more than welcome to start a steampunk chat thread in the Sf club…"
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