Basically, this is a test of a new sort of ‘business model’.

I will release a free to download, sponsored/ad-supported version of Resurgence in PDF, DRM free format with a Creative Commons license (free to share/attribution/non-commercial/no alteration/deriatives) if there are people willing to donate to make such a version available.

The donations will be my compensation as the author.

Resurgence is a short story/longer flash fiction piece of 2, 263 word count. It’s sci fi/fantasy.

Compensation amount is $ 113.15 ( five (5) cents per word).

Donate $5 or more, and you’ll be listed at the front of the sponsored version as one of the people who’ve made it available for free download. Your name and/or web site link, whichever you choose. The sponsored version will be available here, at my imprint site, and at Smashwords, and hopefully on other people’s web sites shortly thereafter.

The unsponsored version will remain available for purchase for those readers who’d rather not have ‘ads’ in their ebooks (it’s only 99 cents at full cover price).

If the response is good, I’ll do the same for more titles with different sponsorship options.

Do you want to set Resurgence free? Donate!

The word count for Arcane Solutions has risen to 48, 090. It’ll reach the 50k goal today! Yay!

Hopefully, it’ll be finished before the end of the month. Bad news is that once that 50k goal is passed, I have to do some re-writes in order to finish it. So NaNo will end for me today, and I won’t be updating the word count on it on my profile there.

Plan is to have it as polished as I can get it and send it for editing. After that’s finished, I plan to format it, design the cover and publish it.

It’ll be my first NaNo novel to go through those steps! Woohoo!

The publishing part probably won’t happen until after the first of the year, so if you’ve been checking the excerpts out and like what you’ve seen, stay tuned for information about when, where and how much the cover price will be.

Progress has been good! Arcane Solutions has a word count of 41, 060 right now.

Excerpt:

 

“Look, just because the boss thinks…” I was interrupted.

“You really had both legs broken three weeks ago?” The shifter grinned when I began sputtering in reaction. “What was it? Oh, I remember: you were pushed off a roof.”

My face grew hot. “Shut up.”

“I’m curious. Why didn’t you use your telekinesis to…”

My turn to interrupt while whipping the car out into traffic. “It’s kind of hard to concentrate when you’re falling, okay?”

“How many stories was it?” Nick winced as I hit the brakes to keep from rear ending the car in front of us. Yanking the wheel, I passed it. “Can I drive?”

“Fifteen and no.” I’d been lucky my legs were all that had been broken, panicked as I’d been. “I wasn’t trying to use my telekinesis.”

“Watch it! Oh god.” I glanced at him, upper lip curling a bit at the sight of a shifter cowering in my passenger seat. Nick scowled. “Would you watch the damn road?”

“Wuss. I could drive blind-folded. Want to see?” A grin spread as panic bloomed over his face.

“No! There’s…shit! Can I please drive?”

“I already answered that question. It was a ‘no’. Your turn: any vampire enemies?”

“I’m a shifter, what do you think?” Nick grabbed the dash, still scowling.

“Names?” I persisted, making a sharp left that jerked him into the door. We were nearing an entry point for the underground city section known as the Barrows, so I began searching for a parking spot on the car-lined street.

“No one you need to worry about. Are we stopping? Because I think I need to throw up. Has anyone ever told you that your driving skills suck?”

“Yeah, and I’ll tell you what I told them: kiss my ass.” Spotting an open spot, I slowed down.

The shifter recovered quickly. “Ooh, can I?”

Well, I closed down with 25, 019 for my word count on Arcane Solutions last night. Pretty good!

Writing has begun for the day, with not enough to mention yet. But I haz excerpt!

Nick shook his head. “Self defense classes? I guess that’ll be good if you get mugged. By humans.”

“My instructor’s an ex-Marine, dude.”

“Then he should be teaching you how to handle a gun. That would a lot more useful against vampires, Cordi.”

“Hey, did you not see me head butt that vamp? It totally worked. Go, Marines!”

He laughed. “You got lucky, Cordi.”

“Uh-uh. I did what Jeff taught me to: I surprised him.” The supernatural superiority complex was beginning to irritate the piss out of me.

Rolling his eyes, the shifter suddenly bent, grabbed my left ankle and dumped me on my ass. “Ow!”

“Surprise works both ways, Cordi,” he said, grinning down at me.

“Jerk.” I obviously needed a lot more instruction.

It seems I managed 5,200 words the first two days, despite my limited writing time.

That means I’ve already met today’s goal, and in fact, am about 199 words into tomorrow’s goal. So any writing done today is gravy, baby!

I did bounce ahead in the story to write a few scenes that I’ve just been dying to. They’ll have to be moved to the right spots, but at least they’re finally out of my head.

I’ve signed up over on 43Things, following in OrangeCatBlues‘ pawprints, and will be putting my goals/projects up as time allows.

I did write a bit on Night Falls last night, but I don’t think it’s the second bit. More likely the 3rd or 4th bit, so I’ll have to see if bit two shows up tonight when I should have some writing time.

In other news, it appears that Feral Intensity will be my first title to hit that 100 sales goal. Only 27 more to sell to reach it!

The Harkfell Chronicles is in last place with only 5 sold so far, but it is my newest release. There’s a coupon available for it until the end of the year:

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Here’s a peek at what my office currently looks like, now that the drywall has been taped and bedded:

We’ll be working on the utility room today, then I should be cut loose for a while and have some free days to write my ass off. Yay!

Oh, and I’m still looking for sponsers for Arcane Solutions! All donations made go directly to the Office of Letters and Light, but they make me a happy little writer.