author journey – Page 18 – John Irvin, Author

October 27, 2020October 27, 2020

Continuing the Galactic Freedom Fighting Anthology

Yes, my StarQuest world is becoming an Anthology—this means, there are more stories to come set in this galaxy!

By John Irvin

Today’s trailer can be found through this link to my YouTube channel! Click through to watch the short little reel.

Yesterday, we talked about my very first novel. But, what I did mention at the start of that blog, StarQuest was originally intended to be a novella series. After writing seven books in that series while in college, I left off for a couple years.

When I returned, I wasn’t satisfied using the novella series. So I decided to conglomerate a couple of them into what is now the first novel.

But, I did decide to add a couple of those novellas as ebooks in the Anthology.

So, Forgetfulness was published. This takes place before the Novel’s setting. You could call it a prequel, I guess.

Johan Eryn’s team cannot remember who they are.

Hanna is the main character of this short book. Something is off and she knows it. Deep down, she knows her name is Hanna. Deep down, she knows she is friends with the royal guards even though they don’t recognise her.

It’s not until she goes deep down into the dungeons to feed the prisoners that she finds out her suspicions are correct.

It’s Josh Middre, only, not the one in her universe. This one has crossed over from somewhere else.

What are all these secrets? What happened to their team? Will they be able to re-discover their true personalities?

Will they be able to escape the slavery of this world?

Order the book and you’ll find out. While you’re here, you can click through the GoFundMe link on my Home page and donate to the upcoming Spring 2021 Toward the Pacific Book Tour!

And if you know any authors, please, have them shoot me an email at john@johnirvinauthor.com. I have plenty of spots open for the episodes!

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October 26, 2020October 26, 2020

First Official Episode brings the First Official Published Book

I bring to you StarQuest, my first officially published book. It’s only fitting I promote this favourite of mine first!

By John Irvin

Today’s trailer can be found through this link to my YouTube channel! Click through to watch the short little reel.

Way back in college, my freshman year, I started writing this novella series called StarQuest. I discovered—at the time—there was no other series by that name.

I had my favourites: StarGate and StarWars. There was also StarTrek and Starship Troopers. But no StarQuest.

The idea was a team of freedom fighters fight a war to reclaim liberty in America—a friend told me it was a unique niche of its own: political science fiction. So they build a spaceship and go in search of a new world to establish a new country.

Only, they discover, there are hundreds of planets in our galaxy that were colonized by Earthlings thousands of years ago. Playing off the Christian theory of a Global Flood, it brings a new perspective to civilization back then.

According to my StarQuest series, in Pre-Flood times, space colonization was a thing. But, when a world leader died, we shut down interstellar travel for a week. Only, during that week, the Flood happened and all contact was cut off from our colonies.

Some extraterrestrial settlements sent scouts back to mother Earth and found it completely submerged in water. Thinking life on the planet was extinct, they never returned to visit and contact was erased for good.

Until now.

In StarQuest the Novel, the freedom fighters are on their trip back to Earth to inform their leaders of all their discoveries and travels. It’s been a few years since their departure and their mission objective has changed.

The Milky Way Galaxy is under threat of an evil race seeking domination—naturally. The Clongoth are an evolved humanoid species from a dark and poisonous world called Clongo.

Along their way back home, Johan Eryn and his team stop by an old friend’s house on the planet Nitara. Only, after a long flashback, they find her to be kidnapped!

Will they be able to rescue the Queen of the Nitaran Tribes? Will they be able to return to Earth and bring their enemies to their knees? Will they be able to unite the Galaxy in a resistance against the Clongoth? Will they be able to win their independence?

Order the book and you’ll find out. While you’re here, you can click through the GoFundMe link on my Home page and donate to the upcoming Spring 2021 Toward the Pacific Book Tour!

And if you know any authors, please, have them shoot me an email at john@johnirvinauthor.com. I have plenty of spots open for the episodes!

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October 25, 2020October 25, 2020

Today is a Special Day with a New Revamp

I’m announcing the start of a new series.

By John Irvin

Click through to watch today’s YouTube episode announcing the start of what I’m calling my 90-Day Author’s Assault.

Although this is a short blog today, I’m excited to share the news with you. For the past month, I’ve been working on a host of episodes for my John Irvin, Author Journey series.

For the first thirty days, I’ll be sharing short book trailers for my own works. There will probably be more than thirty by the end of it, because I’m still publishing more books even as this blog comes out!

After that, I have sixty days to share the works of so many of my fellow authors. I’ve already reached out to several author friends I’ve gotten to know over these past couple of years. Some of them are new authors, some have been doing this official authorpreneur business longer than I have.

I’m so excited to share all of this with you.

Although, you just might get tired of seeing me on all your social networks because I’m going to be sharing these posts every single day on every single network.

This is devotion. This is commitment. This is probably also a little crazy.

But crazy keeps the world going round.

Personally, I’m looking forward to seeing what my author friends will be filming for their trailers I’ll be sharing later.

Also, this will run 90 days, which means, it’s going to charge into the New Year of 2021!

Hopefully, the visibility this could bring for my author friends and myself, we’ll be able to have an amazing launch of the New Year for our works.

I do know one thing. Every single episode, I’ll be sharing my team’s GoFundMe fundraiser for the Book Tour in Spring 2021. So, if it doesn’t get on people’s nerves, we’ll probably get better donations then.

And if you know any authors, please, have them shoot me an email at john@johnirvinauthor.com. I have plenty of spots open for the episodes!

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October 15, 2020October 13, 2020

Publishing More Books and Something New Approaching

You’re probably going to be tired of me or get to know me better and enjoy it…one or the other.

By John Irvin

These past couple of weeks I’ve been working on finishing up my Magic’s Time Split series—as you well know, if you’ve been following. By next week’s blog, I’ll be publishing the final book in that series.

Wait. Take a deep breath. Sigh.

Okay, then it’ll be moving on to new and exciting things. But, I’m not leaving them for good. I’ll be stopping by their corner over on their book page to share goodies with you over the next year and beyond.

It’s amazing how time flies. I feel like I just started this series, now I’m finishing up the tenth book and everything is finally coming together.

Part of me wants to take a break. But, the other part knows, that’s not possible. When I’ve finished this book, I’ll be returning to the Longevity world because there is still so much going on there.

I’d like to take this moment and ask forgiveness for the issue with Book 3, Wandering, in the Longevity series. It was not until after I approved it for print, publishing it on 3 October, 2020, that two weeks later Ingram Spark sent me an email, letting me know the interior hadn’t been fixed to fit the dimensions.

Thanks.

I think my formatter is fired.

Anyhoo, maybe I’ll see if I can figure out how to actually format pdfs and that’ll, not only give me experience and another skill, but also cut down on the publishing costs. That $100—which depends on each book—could be used for something else!

Also, on top of finishing the Magic’s Time Split, I’ve been working on something else. It has to do with what I was originally going to set out to do when I started my YouTube channel, John Irvin, Author Journey Series, last year.

I’ve been feeling like I’ve been neglecting that channel these past few months. Well, not anymore. Don’t worry. Maybe another week and you’ll know what I’m talking about.

I hope last week’s blog wasn’t offensive to anyone. The last thing I want to do is making someone angry or hurt someone else. But, my team and I have simply been wondering what on earth is not getting through to people? What about our GoFundMe Book Tour fundraiser is not resonating?

Are we doing something wrong? I mean, we have one person who has already given hundreds and then there’s a few who’ve given a fifty or a twenty or a ten. One friend even gave $200 in cash.

But, then, there’s those 2,000 plus people that I know on my social networks alone—this is not counting the rest of my team members and their networks.

Maybe there’s something else we should be doing? Maybe we’re not asking right.

We don’t know. All we do know is, we can ask. You have not because you ask not. So, we’re asking, please help us by joining our supporters and launching us to our goal so we can take this Toward the Pacific Book Tour in Spring 2021!

Spring 2021, Toward the Pacific Author Book Tour (CLICK THROUGH)

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October 1, 2020September 28, 2020

Back on Track with the Authorpreneur Life

It’s a beautiful morning and I’m getting to do what I enjoy most!

By John Irvin

Finally, back on track with the author life, writing away, editing away, and publishing tomorrow!

Book 7, The World Burns, in my Magic’s Time Split series brings us back to the Deadlands where Jenna and Gael discovered zombies are real. Only, this South American continent is transforming into something totally different.

There’s an Ifrit—not your every day friendly wish-granting genie—more zombies, and other new creatures introduced in this new installation of the series.

Even more exciting news, I get to publish the consecutive books on a weekly basis this month—can you believe it’s already October? So I’ll be finished with the Magic’s Time Split realm in four weeks. Such a bittersweet thought. But, I’m finally ready to move on to the next world!

My plans for the rest of the year? I’ll be returning to the Longevity series while also considering a few stand-alone novellas that have been waiting to be published this year. They’re only missing their cover art.

We’ll see how things go.

I’d like to share two of them: Unexpected Friends and Bringing Him Back. One is about a werewolf and a mermaid and the other is about a woman on the quest to resurrect her husband in a paranormal city.

Yes, I know, sounds out there, right?

This is one of the things I enjoy doing: sharing some of my most far-fetched imaginations with you, my wonderful readers.

As you know, if you’ve been keeping up with my posts, I’ve switched my Patreon account to a tip-giving basis. There are some people out there who enjoy helping artists out and don’t want rewards. So, if you’d like to start giving a dollar a month, that would be so appreciated! But, you don’t have to.

It’s just there for anyone who wants to: Click Here!

Now, another thing I’ll be working on with my author career for the next month or two is I’m switching up my YouTube channel again. I’ll be returning to a daily episode posting. So these next several weeks will be crammed with my stocking up on videos. I want to have a stash before committing to this.

I’m also considering taking a break from fiction writing and finishing a nonfiction ebook I started last year. It’s called, Paranormal Passions: How to Write with Ghosts, Vampires, and Werewolves.

I figured, now that I have more than thirty published books under my belt, it’s time to start giving back and helping those younger aspiring writers out there. So, the idea is to have this book out there for free while also offering a writing webinar.

Now, don’t hold me to this, it’s only been bouncing back and forth inside my brain along with the gazillion other ideas in there.

I’ll have to research and study how to design the best webinar as I don’t want to waste anyone’s time or money. That’s being a thief and I hate thieves.

So there’s just a couple of the hundreds of ideas I’d like to make reality this coming season. It’ll be Christmas before we know it and I have no holiday stories planned for publication this year—sorry if you feel like I’m cheating you.

Oh, the other point before I close today. GoFundMe fundraiser for the Toward the Pacific Spring 2021 Book Tour. Yes, I’m going to keep bring this up until we’ve reached our goal. Please, join our supporters and help my team raise what we need. Help us make this dream come true!

Have a great life, see ya next week.

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September 24, 2020September 23, 2020

Hurricane Sally Welcomes Me Home!

When you’re returning from a two-week-out-of-state-trip and a Hurricane decides to pop up and give you the grand reception.

By John Irvin

All right, so I was gone to Kentucky, visiting my folks, and was keeping steady with my writing work. I’ve finished the first draft round of the last four books in the Magic’s Time Split series and was already beginning the round of second drafts.

I had a list of things I needed to accomplish when I returned home to Pensacola. Within the last couple days: BAM! My phone informs me a Cat. 2 hurricane named Sally hits Pensacola out of nowhere and decides to hang around for a few days.

I flew down over her while she was climbing up Alabama, worried about my friends and neighbours.

Thank God, He had His hand on them and no one in my circles was hurt. Although there was a big mess when I got home and the power was out all over the county.

I must say, I am thankful for friends who took me in while we waited for the power to come back on.

Now, power’s on, so it’s back to business and I’m commencing Operation Catch-up. A lot to work on over this week and so many plans I’m going to be executing over the coming months.

It’s an exciting time for both my author business and my freelance proofreading!

Still working on figuring out better ways to promote my team’s fundraiser over on GoFundMe because, when Spring 2021 comes around, I want to be ready and prepared for the best debut book tour!

If you have any ideas, please reach out. Also, click through the photo or link and join our supporters by donating whatever amount you’re able to then share with your friends. This is called crowdfunding and it’s a new way of supporting each other as entrepreneurs, business adventurers, or just friends!

On that note, I’m looking at my schedule for this week and it looks like a large pile, but I’m not at all daunted. I feel pumped and ready to conquer.

So, on this note, I’m going to say, talk to you next week, stay safe, and have a great life.

Also, I will be forgoing my YouTube video for this month as I’ve got to begin work on a new endeavour over this next month. But, you could still click through the link shared below and hit follow then catch up on a few of the previous episodes. It’s a work in progress, but it’s getting better.

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