It’s been a year.

The good news is that nobody went to the hospital this year. It’s not much but it’s a start.

Looking at the production for the year, I started out well but pooped out in the middle. I got one new book out this year – In Ashes Born – and have some significant in-roads on Cape Grace. It started well last winter but faded as my depression got the better of me. I thought we had that under control by August when I switched gears to producing Ashes.

Unfortunately, November saw me slide back into the hole and I’m only just managing to find the opening again now.

I’ve got two books in process – Cape Grace at 35k words and Milk Run at 45k. Both have stalled but my brain is beginning to kick over again.

The bad news is that even the daily walk podcast fell by the wayside for much of the year and I was unable to maintain even that amount of progress.

It’s a daily struggle and one I’m still fighting. Here’s looking forward to a better year ahead.

Thanks for staying with me.

Some of you have probably spotted the advertising on the various free and bargain book sites. Today is the last day and Quarter Share is being promoted by Free Kindle Books and Tips.

Michael Gallagher has been a fan for a while and has graciously added a link to his review to the advertising to lend his personal support to helping me out with this. If you’ve a mind to help spread the word on Facebook or Twitter or anywhere else you might be active, you can help me and help a fellow fan by giving today’s post a share, like, follow, whatever.

You might also find his daily promo’s interesting so feel free to subscribe. Every new subscriber he gets helps his reach and you’ll get access to some of the best new indie authors when their works go on sale.

He also tells me you can register for a Kindle Fire giveaway.

The free/99cent pricing goes back to normal Monday so … if you’ve a mind to grab the Kindle versions (which will be linked to the Whispersync from Podium when they’re produced, hint, hint), this is a good chance to do that.

Thanks!

Nathan’s Novel Writing Month — that’s actually every month but November is a special kick. We’ll see how far I get.

In other news, I signed a contract with Podium to produce the audiobook versions of Ishmael Wang books. All six Shares plus the three Seeker’s. Make sure you’ve got your MP3s of my narrations because they’re going to come down when the new books go up on Audible. I fought it as long as I could but Audible – like KDP – is the 6000 pound gorilla. The upside here is that Podium has some of the best audio in the business and they hire only the best narrators. The downside is that I have no control over the process now.

It also means I’ll have more time to write new stories without having to worry about when I’m going to get the audiobooks done.

So I’ll be going mostly dark over November and working on cranking out as many words as I can while the November madness is upon us.

Let the wild rumpus start!