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A Cabin in the Woods and a Flying Robot

16/3/2017

Summoned to Defend comes out on Monday. First book in a new series. Excitement abounds.

So I'm going to skip all that and go hang out in a cabin in the woods. My wife and I are going to spend the weekend not worrying about pre-order numbers (you can pre-order Summoned to Defend here, if you like) or upcoming marketing, or any of that crap. We're just going to spend some time communing with nature (or some hippy bullshit).

Late last year I bought myself a DJI Mavic, a little camera drone that is the bestest toy a person can own (besides erectile-dysfunction-compensators like sports cars). I've flown a bunch in and around the area I live, taking aerial photos and videos. This thing is seriously awesome, and so easy to fly even I can do it without crashing (much).

So this trip is going to allow me to use it properly for the first time, way out in the middle of nowhere. There will still be flying for simple fun, but I'm hoping to get some great shots I otherwise wouldn't be able to get. If I do I might even post them here.

Next week (launch week for my shiny new book) I'm heading to Shanghai. So I'll be skipping all the hoopla and hanging out in China. I'm sure there will be pictures from that as well.

The week after (the first week the book goes up to full price with no overt advertising, and we see if it sinks or swims on its own) I'll be in Hong Kong. Because Hong Kong is amazing and I'm in the area anyway. I've already got a bunch of pictures of the awesome that is this city, but I'll snap a few more and try to remember to post them.

So, basically, releasing a new book is stressful. What with constantly checking your rankings on Amazon and worrying if people like what you'd done (like me, please!), to hoping some reviews turn up at some point, the whole week is a massive pain in the ass.

So I'm just not doing it. Everything is set up to run as close to automatically as I can manage. It'll work, or it won't. Either way, the book is good and was fun to write. Buy it, don't buy it, I'll survive.

(Though you should buy it. Seriously. Go pre-order it now.)

(Why are you still reading and not pre-ordering the new book? You're wasting time)

(Really gonna make me beg, aren't you? Fine, pretty please, buy the book)

(OK, I'm done, but you should also go check out the new Release Schedule bit of the site)

(Buy the book)

The Plan

6/3/2017

Last year I had a grand plan. I was going to release a book a month, every month. I started with Merikh and that went well. It went very well, in fact, and I made a bunch of top tens and sold a bunch of copies. People liked it and they told their friends, and things were going well.

And then I couldn't get a cover for the fourth book in time for the deadline, and I had another series I felt like writing, and I spent time looking at all the marketing I should have been doing. And and and.

Look, my excuses are terrible. What it boils down to, at the end of the day, was that I'm a slacker, and when faced with the mountain of advertising and stuff I thought I had to do, I just decided not to. I planned on writing a book a month, something I can do in my sleep, and instead I played the new Doom and watched Netflix.

So what have I got planned for this year, I here you ask? Well, see, the reason the book a month thing didn't work isn't because I couldn't do it, it's because I didn't. So I'm going to prove that to myself and try again. I'm going to ignore all the marketing crap and just write a book I think will be entertaining, and then go write another one. And then another one, etc.

I know, I know, what a dumbass. What a colossal moron.

Shut up, voice in my head. I can too do it. In fact, I've been doing it since January.

I've got a new series coming out in a couple of weeks. The first book, Summoned to Defend, will tell the story of an immortal, formerly all-powerful man cursed to do the bidding of whoever summons him from his prison. It's violent, nasty, and the lead character (Agmundr) isn't a nice man on his best day. But he gets the job done.

The prequel novella, covering the first time he's summoned into the modern world, should be live on Amazon now (or maybe tomorrow, depending on whether they like me or not). If you've signed up for the newsletter you'll get it free, because I want you to like it and give it a try. If you haven't signed up it'll cost 99c, so it won't break the bank.

It's a four book series (plus the novella) and they are already written. There will be pre-orders and stuff, if that's how you swing. It's a lot fun and has heavens and hells colliding, dead gods, vampires and witches a-plenty, and a stubborn, angry, ancient dude who doesn't take any shit from anyone.

After that comes Olivia's story (those of you who read End of Days, Merikh book 3, should know who that is), and what happens to her after she comes back from the dead. It is also full of vampires and witches and magic, but she's nicer. She smells better, anyway.

And after that, more stuff. I haven't decided yet. I'm going to do a release date page on this here website, and I'll add new titles to it as they slot into the schedule.

Point is, if you've been waiting for something like Merikh then you're about to get. In fact, Merikh is in the first book (out March 20th).

Stick with me, sign up for the newsletter, and let me show you how strange my little world can get.

A Cabin in the Woods and a Flying Robot

The Plan

C.L. Walker

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