Today, I'm 66. Our dog, Milli, was born at Loveable Paws and she's almost 2 now. If you can, please donate so other dogs can find forever homes. If you can't, please share.
Don't buy. Save a life and adopt.
Today, I'll pass the 25% mark in writing Cocaine Cowboys, the third book in my new Jesse McDermitt Tropical Adventure Series. It'll go on preorder in two weeks, on 12/1, and will be released in April.
Meanwhile, Dominica Blue is almost through formatting and final cover design. ...It's on preorder now, and the ebook and audiobook will be released in my online store a week from tomorrow, on 11/24, then on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited on 12/1.
Our dog, Milli, was born at Loveable Paws. If you can, please donate so other dogs can find forever homes.
Don't buy. Save a life and adopt.
Preorder starts on December 1 for ebooks and audiobooks, and only my newsletter subscribers will be informed of the two-day discounted price.
You can sign up on my website.
Cocaine Cowboys will be released on April 7 to to my online store, and a week later on April 14 on Amazon, then three... months after that on Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google, and everywhere else ebooks are sold.
Nick Sullivan has the football!
Although he's not scheduled to record the Dominica Blue audiobook until Monday, I sent him the final manuscript yesterday and he may get an early start this weekend.
The Amazon release date for the ebook, audiobook, and paperback is 12/1, with the ebook ...and audiobook delivered automatically just after midnight.
My online Ship's Store release date for the ebook and audiobook is one week earlier on 11/24, with both being delivered automatically just after midnight. And for $2 less. Paperback sales will start as soon as the first order arrives.
Now, back to chapter three of Cocaine Cowboys, coming in April.
The Amazon release of the Dominca Blue eBook, the 29th in the Jesse series, is in just seven weeks.
You can also preorder the eBook AND the audiobook directly from my online store for $2 less, and you'll receive it a week early.
Dominica Blue, coming December 1.
I spent the morning creating my writing and production schedule for the next two books, which will take me through the middle of 2025.
I'll start Cocaine Cowboys tomorrow, the third book in the Young Jesse series, which will be published on March 10.
Once the audiobook is recorded in ...the last week of January, I'll start the 30th book in the primary Jesse series, which will be published on July 12, four days before I turn 66 years and 8 months old and can retire with full SS benefits.
We'll be having a release party for Jesse #30 on that day, my first release party ever, and we're working on a way to get a few of my readers to attend.
There may be a third book in 2025, but it won't be until around Christmas.
I'm slowing down, y'all. Writing, producing, and publishing four novels in 2024 has taken a toll, and I plan to spend more time with my wife, doing the things we've never been able to do while we raised our kids with both of us working hard.
I'm not quitting. I'm just taking a page from Travis McGee's playbook and taking my retirement in little chunks, only working when I have to.
So, what does Tropical Authors do with the royalties paid on our collaborative books?
Well, just now, we made a large donation to Operation Air Drop, which is flying in much needed food, water, medicine, and supplies, in private aircraft, piloted by by volunteers.
It's our fourth large... donation of the year.
You can help simply by buying and reading these books which feature individual authors' characters working together.
Start with Graceless. But go ahead an buy them all. What's left at the end of the year, we'll be taxed on, so we try to get the balance down close to zero by then.
Link in the comments.
Rant on!
Natural disasters are NOT campaign opportunities!
When Biden, and then Trump, flew into the affected area, the FAA was forced to declare a No Fly Zone, halting essential VOLUNTEERS in private airplanes, from flying in much needed and sometimes, lifesaving supplies for several ...hours.
The people in the affected regions don't have MINUTES to spare, much less hours, and they're not going to come to your stupid ass campaign rallies.
Lead, follow, or better still, just get the hell out of the way!
REAL Americans have work to do.
Rant off...
Someone asked in an email what subscribing to my newsletter would get them. I've never talked about or explained the perks very much, because it's mostly about giving back to those who helped get me where I am, because none of them signed up to get something free or even knew there were ...perks. So, here they are.
Perk #1: When a new preorder begins, the price is discounted for three days and they're the only ones who know for the first two. I post on Facebook the day before a preorder goes up to regular price. This is a savings of $5 or more for my core reader group.
Perk #2: Same with a Kindle Unlimited release. Newsletter suscribers are alerted on release day.
Perk #3: Newsletter subscribers save up to $2 per ebook or audiobook, by shopping in my online Ship's Store, like everyone else, but they also have a gift code that saves an additionl 10% on everything in the store. Ebooks, audiobooks, signed paperbacks, T-shirts, coffee mugs... Everything in the store.
Perk #4: Newsletter subscribers know that by preordering from my online Ship's Store early, they save up to $5, get 10% off of that, AND they get the ebook or audiobook release a week EARLY.
Perk #5: Subscribers get at least one email a month, and no more than two in a release month, with updates on what I'm doing, where I am in a story, and often add to the story through interaction.
Basically, if subscribers to my newsletter take advantage of alerted low prices, I break even versus a retail purchase or preorder.
Well, except for the surge in ranking on new preorder or release days, which creates visibility and interest that money can't buy.
You can find the link to my website here on my Facebook page, or just Google my name. My website will be the first result and there's a link to subscribe at the top of every page on the site.
Today's the last day you can preorder the Dominca Blue eBook on Amazon for $3.99.
It's $1 cheaper in my own online store, where the audiobook is also on preorder.
The regular retail price will go up at midnight.
