1. So about 24 hours until I hit the button and then everything is in Amazon's hands.
2. The beta readers have saved you from a little over 100 typos this go around. I'm sure some remain. Feel free to email me after release and I'll get to them eventually.
3. Only slight change to the book is its about 500 words lighter, the cuts coming at the very beginning to make the first scene quicker. That first scene also now ends on a bit of a mouth dropping moment that should make Tyson's anxieties and equivocations EXTRA unbearable :)
4. Beta readers are liking the "final" fight quite a lot, so...yay!
5. Other news, I'm having to come up with a whole new ultra class since FM7's school story deals with King Henry as a student-advisor. Those poor children. Of course if you read King Henry and the Three Little Trips then you know who two of them are and some of what will be going down. Last school story, no more, yay!
6. Big storm tonight :(
7. Have 14 more WWE PVPS to catch up on before Wrestlemania. Last year I went through 2011 to halfway through 2015, last couple months has been 2015 to 2018. I'm hearing the entrance music in my sleep at this point. And not the good ones either. Like a week ago I has Carmella's entrance stuck in my head on a loop for like 48 hours. It was horrible!
8. You fans ready?
9. Feels good to be publishing again! Last year was rough. Here's hoping I keep kicking some ass!
==Update==
10. Button has been pressed. As usual, it can take either 1 hour (like FM6) or 3 days (FM5 took about 24 hours if I remember right) for it to go through, so, start refreshing I guess?
11. And now I'm going to go distract myself by blowing up rebel scum in Battlefront 2. Which is only 20 bucks now and the progression system isn't evil any longer, so...it's kind of okay-ish.
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Assault on Dread Fortress Paine is Done
Done. Done. Done.
Beta read in progress.
Ended up being 74k words long or about 200 pages.
So yeah, that's a fucking book! How'd that happen?
Release window is March 23rd to March 26th. Probably going to charge the same as Three Little Trips, which is $2.99. As I've said before, there's no King Henry at all. It's T-Bone and Eva's stories being told. There are six?seven? new characters in the book. Most of them belong to ESLED's Strike Alpha, including Captain Ramses Lamprey who is a spectromancer known as the Walking Flash-bang. Some familiar faces will also very much pop up. It probably has the most action-per-page of any book I've written. At this point, if you read a Richard Raley novel then you know what you're getting: lots of conversations between two to three people in a room somewhere!
Not this time.
For good and ill. Lots of action. The next one, not so much. But this one, yes. FM7? We'll see ;P
Anything else? Oh yeah. I know I said you could skip FM5.5, but not a good idea this time around. There's a LOT of setup for FM7 you won't want to miss. And beyond FM7 even...
So...that's over. Guess I'll take a couple days off and then dive into finishing the last half of The Glassbreaker Goes Home. Or start FM7's school story. The last one I'll ever have to write! Yay!
Gush? What's Gush?
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Post? Plague Notes
1. Back at it!
2. Obviously The Plague knocked my schedule back a bit (not that I'm very good at keeping them lately!) so everything I talked about last time, add a week or two.
3. Assault on Dread Fortress Paine is getting closer and closer to being done. The final edit is winding down, have the last couple scenes left to finish. Then after that I have like 2k-4k of original writing to wrap up, cuz I'm weird and do stuff out of order for some reason. I do it for almost every book actually. Another good one I always seem to manage is writing the last chapter before writing the second to last chapter. Using FM6 as an example I wrote all the Eureka stuff, then the Post Eureka stuff, and only THEN wrote the Geo Realm chapter.
4. After said final edit is over, I'll do my Kindle edit. Unless I make some HUGE mistake everything will be locked down before hand and it's mostly typo hunting, playing with paragraphs and with the FM books actually the first time I get to read them with both the timelines and figuring out where each one should flip back and forth. After THAT we have the beta read and then release.
5. So...March!
6. Curse the Plague! Without it, new Richard Raley writing would be in your hands by now!
7. Richard Raley writing and not a King Henry book because there's actually no King Henry in this one...outside of T-Bone's imagination at least...
8. Then we're on to the next one, cuz it never ends! The Glassbreaker Goes Home. Stolen from The Thin Man Goes Home. Which is a movie series everyone should watch.
9. Speaking of movies...I have Thor Ragnarok, Justice League, Coco, and Blade Runner 2049 all sitting unwatched, so I should get to that. Also Altered Carbon. Which is a book all of you should read. In my top 50 for sure.
10. Confession Time: I've never seen the first Blade Runner! Can you believe that?!?!? Also haven't seen Shawshank Redemption...or the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I know...
11. Here's hoping the next post is a release date!
2. Obviously The Plague knocked my schedule back a bit (not that I'm very good at keeping them lately!) so everything I talked about last time, add a week or two.
3. Assault on Dread Fortress Paine is getting closer and closer to being done. The final edit is winding down, have the last couple scenes left to finish. Then after that I have like 2k-4k of original writing to wrap up, cuz I'm weird and do stuff out of order for some reason. I do it for almost every book actually. Another good one I always seem to manage is writing the last chapter before writing the second to last chapter. Using FM6 as an example I wrote all the Eureka stuff, then the Post Eureka stuff, and only THEN wrote the Geo Realm chapter.
4. After said final edit is over, I'll do my Kindle edit. Unless I make some HUGE mistake everything will be locked down before hand and it's mostly typo hunting, playing with paragraphs and with the FM books actually the first time I get to read them with both the timelines and figuring out where each one should flip back and forth. After THAT we have the beta read and then release.
5. So...March!
6. Curse the Plague! Without it, new Richard Raley writing would be in your hands by now!
7. Richard Raley writing and not a King Henry book because there's actually no King Henry in this one...outside of T-Bone's imagination at least...
8. Then we're on to the next one, cuz it never ends! The Glassbreaker Goes Home. Stolen from The Thin Man Goes Home. Which is a movie series everyone should watch.
9. Speaking of movies...I have Thor Ragnarok, Justice League, Coco, and Blade Runner 2049 all sitting unwatched, so I should get to that. Also Altered Carbon. Which is a book all of you should read. In my top 50 for sure.
10. Confession Time: I've never seen the first Blade Runner! Can you believe that?!?!? Also haven't seen Shawshank Redemption...or the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I know...
11. Here's hoping the next post is a release date!
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Plague Notes
1. Pre-Plague Asthma Weirdness.
2. Nope, It's the Plague! Begone allergy pills, hello Nitequil!
3. Sneeze, cough, hack, sneeze, cough, hack.
4. Plague, Yes, But Not as Plague-ish as Advertised...
5. Feeling Better.
6. One Good Day of Editing.
7. Super Bowl! Great Game.
8. Wait...it can't be!
9. Plague 2: The Sequel. Just Enough Plague to Be Annoying Edition.
10. Nope, it's a Tide Ad.
2. Nope, It's the Plague! Begone allergy pills, hello Nitequil!
3. Sneeze, cough, hack, sneeze, cough, hack.
4. Plague, Yes, But Not as Plague-ish as Advertised...
5. Feeling Better.
6. One Good Day of Editing.
7. Super Bowl! Great Game.
8. Wait...it can't be!
9. Plague 2: The Sequel. Just Enough Plague to Be Annoying Edition.
10. Nope, it's a Tide Ad.
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Quick Notes New Year Edition
1. I'm not writing as many quick note posts lately because my tablet's battery is on life support and my writer laptop isn't connected to the internet. Most obvious truth ever: the internet is very bad for productivity. So a few years ago I bought the tablet to help segment my devices. Tablet = net, laptop = writing, PS4 = gaming. It worked great. But it's been a year since my last novel and I don't have spare cash for a new tablet atm, so you'll just have to deal with less blathering from me, okay? ;) And no, you can't easily buy a new battery for a tablet, have tried twice and the knockoffs are off the charts.
2. Currently working on what I hope is my final edit for Dread Fortress. About 1/3 done with it. So far, so good. Might change some of the order of the scenes around yet, not sure. Beginning is kind of slow as is. (Not that I've ever been one to have fast beginnings!) It's another case of me trying to write a novella and instead ending up writing a small novel. Should end up about 200 pages long. Maybe a little shorter. The action scene to character moment ratio is turned way up for one of my works. That was kind of the idea with these two 'novellas', Dread Fortress = action, Goes Home = character. Also, Dread Fortress is kind of the epilogue for FM6 directly, while Goes Home is an epilogue for the entire first half of the series.
3. FM5.5 was arguably skipable...if you know, you didn't want a really enjoyable slice-of-life diversion for three of our characters, but there's a couple events that happen in Dread Fortress that you probably really want to learn about...
4. Still at the halfway mark with Goes Home. Still really enjoy all the ins and outs of it. HOPING to finish it quickly and have it out 2-3 months after Dread Fortress, but I've been about as much of Fate's bitch as King Henry lately, so we'll see.
5. FM7...will start on it as soon as both of those are done. Although it's not like I haven't been thinking about the scenes this whole last year, over and over and over. The writing part of authorship is a shockingly small amount of the time you spend working on a novel.
6. So...Dread Fortress = Late Feb/Early March. Goes Home = May/June/July. Gush = what's Gush? FM7 = TBD.
7. I finally started reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Vor Saga, loving it so far, about halfway through it I think. Been reading tons because of it. One of those series where I'm not sure why I never bothered with it, since I enjoy her Five Gods work so much.
8. As a personal rule if I don't have something good to say about another artist/writer/creator then I take the high ground and just shut my mouth so...I won't be giving my opinion on The Last Jedi. :)
9. Football today! Winter Olympics...World Cup...two Raley novels, maybe three? Let's hope for a good year!
2. Currently working on what I hope is my final edit for Dread Fortress. About 1/3 done with it. So far, so good. Might change some of the order of the scenes around yet, not sure. Beginning is kind of slow as is. (Not that I've ever been one to have fast beginnings!) It's another case of me trying to write a novella and instead ending up writing a small novel. Should end up about 200 pages long. Maybe a little shorter. The action scene to character moment ratio is turned way up for one of my works. That was kind of the idea with these two 'novellas', Dread Fortress = action, Goes Home = character. Also, Dread Fortress is kind of the epilogue for FM6 directly, while Goes Home is an epilogue for the entire first half of the series.
3. FM5.5 was arguably skipable...if you know, you didn't want a really enjoyable slice-of-life diversion for three of our characters, but there's a couple events that happen in Dread Fortress that you probably really want to learn about...
4. Still at the halfway mark with Goes Home. Still really enjoy all the ins and outs of it. HOPING to finish it quickly and have it out 2-3 months after Dread Fortress, but I've been about as much of Fate's bitch as King Henry lately, so we'll see.
5. FM7...will start on it as soon as both of those are done. Although it's not like I haven't been thinking about the scenes this whole last year, over and over and over. The writing part of authorship is a shockingly small amount of the time you spend working on a novel.
6. So...Dread Fortress = Late Feb/Early March. Goes Home = May/June/July. Gush = what's Gush? FM7 = TBD.
7. I finally started reading Lois McMaster Bujold's Vor Saga, loving it so far, about halfway through it I think. Been reading tons because of it. One of those series where I'm not sure why I never bothered with it, since I enjoy her Five Gods work so much.
8. As a personal rule if I don't have something good to say about another artist/writer/creator then I take the high ground and just shut my mouth so...I won't be giving my opinion on The Last Jedi. :)
9. Football today! Winter Olympics...World Cup...two Raley novels, maybe three? Let's hope for a good year!
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