Today begins the Preorder for my first novel. Two months and eleven days from today I will not only be releasing Stage One: Egg, but I will also be meeting with a literary agent. That is one of the reasons I have decided to do a Presale. If I have crafted a good enough story to go along with good sales over the next couple of months, they may be more open to representing Monarch; thus, increasing the chances that there will be a paperback and hardcover version next summer. My second reason for doing an early sale is to give my friends, family and those who are keen on the story a break on the pricing of the book(s) before I raise them in November.
It has been over a year since I started on Monarch. Actually, work began over a decade ago when I wrote a screenplay called Cipher. Some of you have likely seen the movie trailer that I and others made years ago. I did little to promote the story and soon moved on to other endeavors, chalking it up to experience, but I never forgot it. Ten years later, in January of 2010, I was contemplating what artistic undertakings to try to tackle for the year, as I do every year around that time. That was when it occurred to me: I might attempt something new, while incorporating something over a decade old.
The much-maligned day of December 21, 2012 was right around the corner; and having witnessed the hysteria back in 1999 over Y2K, I began to construct a plan. The plan was to bring back the decade-old story of Cipher, and incorporate it into another story. So, after a year and a half of work, Monarch is almost ready. She's warming up in the wings, nervously awaiting her chance upon the stage.
My plan for Monarch is to release it in four separate stages - named after the four stages of the Monarch Butterfly life cycle. This allows me to do the story like the old serials of yesteryear, a perfect fit for the eBook format that I shall be using with Amazon. Now I know some of you may be saying, "Well, I don't have a Kindle." Neither do I, but the beautiful thing is the Kindle is also a FREE downloadable application for multiple devices: Windows PC, MAC, Blackberry, iphone, ipad, Android, Windows Phone 7. Once you have downloaded the App you must then register it. As long as you have an account with Amazon, you can now go ahead and purchase kindle e-books.
If you have the Kindle App on several devices, you can also switch between them. You can start reading on your PC and then get in a few minutes at lunch with your smart phone. Pretty Awesome! We truly are living in a digital age. Oh, almost forgot Amazon's newest gizmo, you can even use the Amazon Cloud Reader, which allows you to read a book while online.And then on November 11th you can start reading Monarch.
This is very important. Just so you know, when you purchase Monarch online there will be a document sent to your device. It is not the story. THAT DOCUMENT WILL NOT AUTOMATICALLY BE REPLACED ON NOVEMBER 11th. You will receive an email from Amazon, probably a few days prior to the eleventh, which will ask you to click a link to replace files. Click it and Monarch: Egg will supplant the other document. I will keep you posted on my blog.
To find out more about the story or to place an order you can either go through my website at monarchthenovel.com, which will send you to Amazon, or go to my Amazon page.
Thank you for the support.
-aap
It has been over a year since I started on Monarch. Actually, work began over a decade ago when I wrote a screenplay called Cipher. Some of you have likely seen the movie trailer that I and others made years ago. I did little to promote the story and soon moved on to other endeavors, chalking it up to experience, but I never forgot it. Ten years later, in January of 2010, I was contemplating what artistic undertakings to try to tackle for the year, as I do every year around that time. That was when it occurred to me: I might attempt something new, while incorporating something over a decade old.
The much-maligned day of December 21, 2012 was right around the corner; and having witnessed the hysteria back in 1999 over Y2K, I began to construct a plan. The plan was to bring back the decade-old story of Cipher, and incorporate it into another story. So, after a year and a half of work, Monarch is almost ready. She's warming up in the wings, nervously awaiting her chance upon the stage.
My plan for Monarch is to release it in four separate stages - named after the four stages of the Monarch Butterfly life cycle. This allows me to do the story like the old serials of yesteryear, a perfect fit for the eBook format that I shall be using with Amazon. Now I know some of you may be saying, "Well, I don't have a Kindle." Neither do I, but the beautiful thing is the Kindle is also a FREE downloadable application for multiple devices: Windows PC, MAC, Blackberry, iphone, ipad, Android, Windows Phone 7. Once you have downloaded the App you must then register it. As long as you have an account with Amazon, you can now go ahead and purchase kindle e-books.
If you have the Kindle App on several devices, you can also switch between them. You can start reading on your PC and then get in a few minutes at lunch with your smart phone. Pretty Awesome! We truly are living in a digital age. Oh, almost forgot Amazon's newest gizmo, you can even use the Amazon Cloud Reader, which allows you to read a book while online.
This is very important. Just so you know, when you purchase Monarch online there will be a document sent to your device. It is not the story. THAT DOCUMENT WILL NOT AUTOMATICALLY BE REPLACED ON NOVEMBER 11th. You will receive an email from Amazon, probably a few days prior to the eleventh, which will ask you to click a link to replace files. Click it and Monarch: Egg will supplant the other document. I will keep you posted on my blog.
To find out more about the story or to place an order you can either go through my website at monarchthenovel.com, which will send you to Amazon, or go to my Amazon page.
Thank you for the support.
-aap
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