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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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!
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I recently dreamed a wealthy individual learned about my team’s GoFundMe fundraiser for the Toward the Pacific Book Tour Spring 2021 and donated $10,000 to it (which, by the way, is the total goal) and because he did that, several other people ended up jumping on the bandwagon and donating thousands.
Next thing I knew, my team no longer had enough to go on a simple cross-the-country book tour, but instead, we had enough to turn my debut book tour into a world book tour.
The artists on my team became famous like Picasso and Da Vinci, the actress joined the high ranks of Hollywood, and the country guys built cabins and started hunting reserves. Of course, I was reached my life’s dream, becoming a bestselling novelist.
If only life were as simple as dreams.
But, you know, then again, it could be. People always talk about community and helping each other rise to success. That’s what crowdfunding is all about. Ten people give ten dollars and you have a hundred dollars raised.
A thousand people give ten dollars and you have ten thousand.
We then lift each other up. If you have a dream I can support, I share it and give what I can. If my dream is successful and you helped me, I then, in turn, point people to you and invest in you until you’re successful. Then we both look for the next person to invest in and lift them up.
Before you know it, we’re all millionaires inspiring the next generation.
I’m going to be real and vulnerable with you.
I don’t see that among most of the circles I hang with.
Community Support!
No, sadly, the general rule seems to be: overload the person striving for success with so much advice they’re brains are reeling. But when that person tells you about their fundraiser, you ask every once in awhile how it’s doing and when they are honest, letting you know they’re struggling, you simply say things like, “Don’t give up. Other people are struggling, but keep going.” Instead of throwing a ten dollar bill at that person to actually help out.
Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate encouraging words as much as the next guy. But they don’t pay the bills.
I’d also like to point out, there are a few friends who have already donated and I know for certain they’re struggling financially just like me. Yet, I also know, if ten dollars is too much for you, then you really need to rethink your financial situation. I’ve given fifty to my own fundraiser and I’m the struggling author.
Yet, now, I’ve got my first books in a local brick-and-mortar bookstore and people are surprised while others aren’t. You really learn who believes in you when you climb your mountain.
I don’t know, people are just interesting. You have that one friend who gives several hundred dollars to your fundraiser, but you have all those other friends who don’t give a penny.
I know we’re all busy with our own lives and we forget about things—this is one reason I’m posting more and sharing more, because this dream has got to come true come Spring 2021.
I’ve been at this authorpreneur business for four years come December. I’ve published over thirty books now. I’ve built and re-built websites, I’ve built networks, lost them, and am building them again. I’ve tried almost every marketing plan I’ve read about that doesn’t cost money. I’ve ready countless books on how to sell books.
Some struggle, some simply refuse, we’re all humans.
I know, it’s ONLY four years, you say. Yes, I’m selling more copies than I did at the beginning. But still, I’m finding a hug gap between my position and my dreams. I look out among my circles and see friends who have dreams of their own, knowing deep in my heart I want so much to help them. But I’m unable to…yet.
So, please, if you’ve read this far, I appreciate your willingness to bare through all this mess and these raw emotions. I’m not angry at anyone. I really hope this blog didn’t come out sounding like I am.
People have been telling me to open up more, be more vulnerable. I guess, what I’m trying to say is: I need you. We need you. My team and I need your support. We can’t do this on our own. No one can achieve success on their own.
I know this year has been insane, but every year has its insanity. Why not start this holiday season, giving to a community fundraiser? Maybe giving more support this Autumn-Winter time, we’ll be able to usher in a brighter and more successful New Year?
So, if you can spare ten dollars—or maybe even a little more—please click through this link and join our awesome and amazing supporters in lifting us up so we can, in turn, lift others up!
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I’ve now been hosting a YouTube channel called John Irvin, Author Journey Series. Check it out at YOUTUBE.COM/AUTHORJOURNEY
It’s a beautiful morning and I’m getting to do what I enjoy most!
Back on top of the stack!
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!
The coming months have so many things!
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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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.
When you’re a Pensacola Author
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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I’ve now been hosting a YouTube channel called John Irvin, Author Journey Series. Check it out at YOUTUBE.COM/AUTHORJOURNEY
For this one-hundredth-and-sixty-eighth blog post, I’m going to chat a little about what’s going on in my book life.
Last week, on the 3rd of September—a week ago—my third novel in the Longevity series, Wandering, finally came out in Hardcover through IngramSpark.
Ihon Iraes travels through time and lands, searching for the true source of who he is. He’s lost so many loved ones, he’s not sure what makes him tick anymore. Somehow, through all his wandering, he discovers friendships in each place that propel him forward.
Will he find what he’s looking for? Will he at least find a reason to settle down again?
While this book was coming out and last week’s blog popped up on the internet, I was flying up to visit my family in Kentucky. I’m up here for another week and enjoying the time spent with them.
But, I’m keeping my writing going—I hold to the old adage: a non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity—so I’m happy. I can spend time with my brothers and parents yet still keep my writing going.
I’ve finished the first drafts of the last four books in the Magic’s Time Split series, it’s now the second drafts round and I’m steadily working through that. Thankfully, I’m still on track and this series will be published on time it appears!
Though I’m making sure to spend more time this vacation with the family, I’m keeping my reading up. Every man and woman should read for at least fifteen minutes EVERY single day!
For now, it’s only fiction books on my list—yes, I usually have a reading list, most of the time it’s three books at a time. Sometimes I’ve read up to four at a time. I usually read a chapter in each per day. I feel more accomplished that way, I guess.
But, right now, being on vacation, it’s only two.
Tyrant’s Tomb in the Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling.
Both great works of fiction and I recommend each series!
Make sure you keep your reading up and grow your mind. Like the body, the mind needs exercise and reading is that exercise.
In other news, remember that artist website called Patreon? It is a place people can go to support creatives like myself by sending either monthly payments or per-work payments.
I started off with $5 per month tiers and gave those supporters a weekly short story serial, but that was cancelled at the beginning of this year.
I’ve been listening to a podcast from other authors and they mentioned having a $1 per month tier for people who just enjoy supporting authors—kind of a tip-jar—but don’t really care about receiving anything.
There are people out there like that, one of my Patrons is actually like that. Even after I cancelled the serial until further notice, I reached out to him because I didn’t want him giving me money for nothing. But, he told me he just likes to help me out.
Warms the heart, doesn’t it? Knowing with all the critics out there, some people do actually still believe in me and my dreams!
So, I’m going to set that tier on Patreon for anyone else who would like to do that. I don’t expect much, but I definitely love and appreciate those who do throw dollars at me each month. Those little extra singles do help!
Now to the GoFundMe fundraiser for the Spring 2021 Author Book Tour, it’s still open if you’d rather throw cash at that to help that dream be realised. Now that I’ve got my books in-store at Bodacious Bookstore & Café, I can start preparing to launch the tour next year and start there with the first Author Event.
But this will only be possible with your help! Here’s the link:
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I’ve now been hosting a YouTube channel called John Irvin, Author Journey Series. Check it out at YOUTUBE.COM/AUTHORJOURNEY
