Saturday, April 13, 2013

The First Law Series

I'm about to finish the second book in the First Law series written by Joe Abercrombie. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes adult fantasy.
The story is good and interesting but the best thing about the novels are the characters. They are not your typical paladins and sorcerers. All have a good side and a bad side; some mostly try to do the right thing, others not so much.
The interactions between the main characters are great, and being so different give way to interesting -and sometimes outright comical- situations.
Adding to the above, Abercrombie's mastery of English is delightful.

The Blade Itself - The First Law: Book One

Friday, April 12, 2013

Self-publishing Manual

I stumbled upon a great self-publishing manual in Hugh Howey's blog. It was published in the Kindle Boards forums by user kayakruthie and it hold a ton of tips and tricks for newbies and not so newbies. I highly recommend it to anyone thinking on self-publishing or who has already done so but is still new in this world.

The link is as follows:

www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,42600.0.html

I hope it helps you as it has helped me.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Monday, February 11, 2013

Now on Smashwords

After ending my enrollment in KDP at Amazon, now I can publish in other sites the short story "The Decision". I've just finished uploading it on to Smashwords and it's on review at the moment. Soon it will be available in Barns & Noble, Apple Book store, Kobo, Sony, etc.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Working on the Cover of Children of Space

I'm having some trouble with this cover. I had some ideas but they are not coming out as good as I thought. However, I haven't finished revising it, so I yet have some time to get the cover right.
I've been trying some 3D rendering for the image, instead of drawing it. I have gone that path because the design I had in mind had scifi elements with reflections and refractions, something quite hard to imitate in a hand drawing.
Apart from those things, I've been writing some more of my Untitled Book. I still haven't found a good title for it. It's going pretty good. I have a good writing pace. I still have a long way to go in that one (I'm not even at the half of it), but I'm getting there.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

First Draft finished

I've finished the first draft of Children of Space. Now I have to revise, edit, proofread, etc. But I don't think it will take me too long to do this.
Then I have to start making the cover (shudders...)