
I hope you and yours have a safe and healthy holiday season. This has been a tough year and I know we’re all looking forward to 2021, I know I am.
Be Well.
by John Wilker
I hope you and yours have a safe and healthy holiday season. This has been a tough year and I know we’re all looking forward to 2021, I know I am.
Be Well.
by John Wilker
Audiobook fan? This is your chance to stock up (or at least try). I stumbled onto this awesome industry-wide, cross genre audiobook giveaway. It goes all month and is just getting started (as of my posting this)
All you have to do is search for #snowaudio2020 on instagram, twitter, facebook, tiktok (Guessing) to find hundreds of authors offering free copies of their audiobooks.
I’m giving away ten copies of The Adventures of Wil Calder as my entry into this giveaway/raffle.
Best of luck! May the odds be forever in your favor.
by John Wilker
I love me a good ball cap. I also hate me a flat-billed cap, sorry hipsters. Printify added this awesome cap, which I immediately added to the store!
There are a few color options, but I’m getting this awesome blue on blue version!
And you know, because it’s 2020, you can now get your very own Space Rogues face mask. I won’t lie, back in April I resisted getting masks, thinking, “Surely we’ll beat this, and then I’ll be stuck with all these masks.”
Oh sweet summer child…. Now I’m stocking up on masks and buffs because it looks like we’ll be wearing masks into 2022, because ‘merica!
I’ve also added a few more shirts for women, both fitted and unisex. Take a look and rep your favorite crew of misfits wherever you are!
by John Wilker
I’ve alluded to it in my newsletter, and I’ve started setting up the back end stuff (Like the Newsletter link to opt into Expedition Inc. Specific news)
I’ve just received book 1 back from the editor and am prepping it for ARC readers (want to be one? Sign up).
This is a bit of a departure while staying in my zone. I don’t want to give away too much, but if you like the dynamic of the crew of the Ghost, you’ll love the Expedition Inc. Team.
Expedition inc. is set on Earth just a little bit in the future. I’m aiming for more action adventure than scifi.
I’m aiming to launch Expedition Inc. #1 – Island of Secrets sometime in the fall.
by John Wilker
I’ve hit the point in my writing where I’m comfortable in branching out. Not too far out as you’ll see, but outside the Space Rogues universe.
I’ve only written two scenes so far, but I have most of this story in my head, and the rest, like all my work, I’ll discover as I go.
Jace is our hero. He’s in a universe where humanity has expanded to the stars, settling planets, causing wars, doing all the stuff we’re good at here on Earth but on a cosmic scale.
I’m exploring his background as I go, but know already that he’s a loner. He’s long since gotten over having people in his life.
…
Jace nodded, “Yeah, I had to lay low after that ass-kicking I gave to the Delphino brothers.”
Lucas grunted, “Uh, they kicked your ass. Your eye is still a little purple.” The bartender looked around, “They shipped out huh?”
Jace touched his left eye and frowned, “Yeah, Rudy told me their ship departed last night.” Lucas sighed and walked over to a woman who had sat down at the far end of the bar.
“Are you Jace Caruso?” A voice asked from behind him.
Jace didn’t look up, “No.”
He looked over his shoulder at a middle-aged man in what looked like an expensive suit. It took the man a few seconds before the man said, “Uh, your business manager said I’d find you here, and described you, in detail.”
Jace shrugged, “He’s a liar.”
“So, you are Jace Caruso?” The man pressed.
Jace exhaled and spun on his barstool, “What do you want? I have a lovely night of getting drunk and making questionable decisions ahead of me.”
The businessman cleared his throat, “Um yes, well I need your help. I’m Sylvester Kline, I represent ReliefCorp. We’d like to hire you.”
Jace looked around. He leaned over to look behind the businessman for the candid vidcast crew that surely was lurking nearby, “Uh what? Why would you want to me to be a relief worker? Nothing in my life would make anyone think that was a thing I’d excel at.”
From the other end of the bar, Lucas said, “Yeah he’s pretty selfish.” Jace looked down the length of the bar and flipped him off. Lucas added, “And lazy.” The bartender smirked.
The man cleared his throat, “I, no.” He shook his head, “We don’t want you as a relief worker. We need you to rescue them, actually.”
Jace turned back to the businessman, “I’m sorry, what? Rescue them? The aid workers?”
The man pushed Jace aside to set a data tablet on the bar. The screen came to life showing a data file for a planet, Mariposa.
“Mariposa?” Jace asked, “The bloody civil war in progress Mariposa?”
Kline looked from the tablet to Jace, “Well yes, currently. ReliefCorp has had an aid station set up in the lower highlands outside the capital for almost five years. The Imperial supported government has been making strides in solidifying their control over the planet. Our camp was helping those affected by the fighting.”…
So that’s part of the opening of Jace Caruso: Space Loner (Very much not the title, but what I have now)
I’m still planning to keep (more or less) to my Space Rogues release schedule, and just mix in my new series and see how it goes.
by John Wilker
Apparently, I’m on a theme right now. Today’s post is about “stuff” aka “Merch”
Two weeks ago I didn’t have any. I had my stickers, as part of my branding efforts and some shirts I’d quickly ordered for Nicole and me to wear to events, and that was it.
Then I had a reader (Shoutout to Shawn Smith!) say he’d love stickers and a shirt. I threw a few of each sticker in the mail but had nothing to offer for shirts. I knew for sure I didn’t want to warehouse shirts at my house and fulfill orders. I mean in a perfect world I’d sell hundreds of shirts a month and it’d be a horrible money-making nightmare, but the reality is likely I’d sell a few and sit on hundreds of shirts for a while. Years likely.
But wait. Print Direct to Garment is the thing. So I began searching.
It didn’t take long to settle on Printify. They let the user select from a wide array of products offered by an equally wide array of vendors around the country/world. You go through, picking the things you’d like to sell (Sorry, no Space Rogues Underwear at the moment) and add them to your site. Easy Peasy.
So, now you can buy all kinds of awesome Space Rogues merchandise! I’m pretty stoked to be able to offer this stuff! I can’t wait for the day I pass someone on the street wearing a badass Space Rogues shirt. What’s really nice is I can offer this cool stuff in the same store I offer direct downloads and signed copies of my books.
What would you like to see in the store?
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