I setup up a 5 day long free book deal for the first two books of the Conqueror of the Sun series: Book 1 - Seed of an Orchid and Book 2 - Mass Conspiracy. The promotion will start on Jan. 15 and end on Jan. 19.
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Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Sunday, December 29, 2019
With the Main 7 book series of the Conqueror of the Sun now fully done and published in both paperback and eBook (and also a day's rest), I have started to turn my focus to work on the many planned side book stories.
Although I can't know where inspiration will take me in order to know which side book I will finish first, most likely it will be Conqueror of the Sun - Severed Galaxy as it already is at least halfway complete with over 170 pages. Besides just really enjoying the story myself, this side book will be quite important and unique compared to most of the other side novels.
Most of the Conqueror of the Sun side stories take place during one of the 7 main books. In fact, 20 out of the 23 planned novels take place in the same time frames as the base story. However, Severed Galaxy is a yet mostly untouched time period for the series. The tale takes place during the time mentioned at the epilogue of Conqueror of the Sun - Book 4 - Queen's Chaos as to give a detailed account (and not just a few lines) of the IRF attack on Earth and the start of the Galactic Civil War.
Other likely candidates for being the first side book finished first or at least the next one after Severed Galaxy are Conqueror of the Sun - The Dead Doll Princess (which takes place almost immediately after the end of Severed Galaxy) or Conqueror of the Sun - And It Lasted 100 Hours, which as mentioned in Book 5 - The IIIrd Tear is Shawn Arc's attack on the Atlon homeworld.
On a somewhat related topic, I feel I should explain that each side book falls under a predetermined style of story which I divide into "Chronicle" sets. Although all books will always have a lot of "story" and character interactions, those novels listed under the W.A.R. Chronicles and as the name implies will have more action scenes in the form of battles and combat. Contrasting to this, the Alternate Light Chronicles will have very few to none "war" type scenes and instead focus on character development and interaction stories.
And although I enjoy both style novels, hopefully this category system will assist readers in deciding which side book they may want to try reading once the number of side book stories increases and are published.
https://www.amazon.com/author/jasonmarcustorraunt
Although I can't know where inspiration will take me in order to know which side book I will finish first, most likely it will be Conqueror of the Sun - Severed Galaxy as it already is at least halfway complete with over 170 pages. Besides just really enjoying the story myself, this side book will be quite important and unique compared to most of the other side novels.
Most of the Conqueror of the Sun side stories take place during one of the 7 main books. In fact, 20 out of the 23 planned novels take place in the same time frames as the base story. However, Severed Galaxy is a yet mostly untouched time period for the series. The tale takes place during the time mentioned at the epilogue of Conqueror of the Sun - Book 4 - Queen's Chaos as to give a detailed account (and not just a few lines) of the IRF attack on Earth and the start of the Galactic Civil War.
Other likely candidates for being the first side book finished first or at least the next one after Severed Galaxy are Conqueror of the Sun - The Dead Doll Princess (which takes place almost immediately after the end of Severed Galaxy) or Conqueror of the Sun - And It Lasted 100 Hours, which as mentioned in Book 5 - The IIIrd Tear is Shawn Arc's attack on the Atlon homeworld.
On a somewhat related topic, I feel I should explain that each side book falls under a predetermined style of story which I divide into "Chronicle" sets. Although all books will always have a lot of "story" and character interactions, those novels listed under the W.A.R. Chronicles and as the name implies will have more action scenes in the form of battles and combat. Contrasting to this, the Alternate Light Chronicles will have very few to none "war" type scenes and instead focus on character development and interaction stories.
And although I enjoy both style novels, hopefully this category system will assist readers in deciding which side book they may want to try reading once the number of side book stories increases and are published.
Monday, December 23, 2019
Paperbook version of the Conqueror of the Sun series now on sale
All 7 Conqueror of the Sun
paperback books are up for sale officially now on Amazon! eBook versions
probably won't be out until Jan. 2020.
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I have just submitted the paperback versions for all 7 Conqueror of the Sun main series books for Amazon's review process. As soon as that is completed, they will be available for purchase, which Amazon says may take up to 72 hours. This, of course, assumes Amazon doesn't ask for any corrections.
In any case, once the paperbacks are live, the price per book is at $12 USD. Which the price for paperback was much higher than I expected. However, according to Amazon's system, for the paperback versions, I will only be making an average of $1 USD royalty per book... I say average because the royalty changes according to the number of pages in each book.
Although I have stated before that the eBook versions will be $3.99 each, I feel I might change this is $4.99. The reason for this has nothing to do with wanting higher royalty to compensate for the paperback versions as I honestly don't care much about making money off my stories. Instead, I am considering this to make them slightly less "attractive" in regard to the price difference between paperback and eBook. This is because, ideally, I consider the paperback versions to be the superior versions of the storybooks.
This is also why the paperback versions will be available before the eBook versions. In addition to this, I want to get a feel for Amazon's review process before submitting the eBooks.
In any case, once the paperbacks are live, the price per book is at $12 USD. Which the price for paperback was much higher than I expected. However, according to Amazon's system, for the paperback versions, I will only be making an average of $1 USD royalty per book... I say average because the royalty changes according to the number of pages in each book.
Although I have stated before that the eBook versions will be $3.99 each, I feel I might change this is $4.99. The reason for this has nothing to do with wanting higher royalty to compensate for the paperback versions as I honestly don't care much about making money off my stories. Instead, I am considering this to make them slightly less "attractive" in regard to the price difference between paperback and eBook. This is because, ideally, I consider the paperback versions to be the superior versions of the storybooks.
This is also why the paperback versions will be available before the eBook versions. In addition to this, I want to get a feel for Amazon's review process before submitting the eBooks.
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Friday, December 6, 2019
The main 7 book series is now 100% complete and ready for submitting
Today the entire 7 book Conqueror of the Sun main series
paperback version is 100% complete, with PDF files already created and uploaded
to Amazon. The only thing that remains is to finish up the book covers, and
then create an ebook version.
Sunday, November 17, 2019
While working on doing the final read-through on the final book for the 7 book series, I got inspired to create yet another side story for the Conqueror of the Sun series.
From the original idea to brainstorming for less than an hour, I was able to construct the entire scaffolding of the plot for the recently birthed novel.
This new book will be part of the Alternate Light Chronicles and take place during The IIIrd Tear era. The story will be entitled "Conqueror of Sun - Path to Death"
This brings the entire series to an even 30 books now. That is the plan at least, whether I can make all of them in reality is a different issue...
From the original idea to brainstorming for less than an hour, I was able to construct the entire scaffolding of the plot for the recently birthed novel.
This new book will be part of the Alternate Light Chronicles and take place during The IIIrd Tear era. The story will be entitled "Conqueror of Sun - Path to Death"
This brings the entire series to an even 30 books now. That is the plan at least, whether I can make all of them in reality is a different issue...
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