writing books – Page 17 – John Irvin, Author

October 29, 2020October 29, 2020

The Story that has been with Me for a Decade!

When your inner creator longs for a different life, a different history.

By John Irvin

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

The Longevity series has got to be the story of my deepest heart. It all started my sophomore year in college when I turned 20. A friend told me I was 900.

Since then, I age myself according to that. So, this December, instead of turning 31, I’m turning 911!

It took a year before I came up with a bullet-point account of my long life. After I graduated, I started coming up with a storyline for a super-long novel.

The second year, I finally wrote a first draft. Being an amateur writer, I made the mistake of publishing that 510 page first draft novel. I did publish it before I published StarQuest, but I don’t count it as my first novel because of how horrible it was.

Thankfully, I came to my senses and cancelled the publication. But, there are still copies out there. *facepalm*

It wasn’t until two years ago, I decided to turn this story into an eight book series. Since then, I’ve written the first four novels—well, I’m not finished with the fourth yet, but close.

Today’s trailer is about the first book, Revelation, in which my Wolf-Born character discovers his true identity and his origin. He is also sent on a mission on the Second Crusade to assassinate a Rogue Wolf-Born.

The Wolf-Born are an ancient race. I’ve actually designed a card with interesting facts about the Race.

Here it is below.

So, make sure you order yourself a copy today! Open that book when it arrives and enter the world of my imagination. Don’t be afraid, I won’t betray you…I think. Mwahahaha!

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 28, 2020October 28, 2020

When You Come across a City Planet and They are Friendly

Johan Eryn and his teammates are greeted with warmth and friendship by the ruling class of this planet, but not all is as safe as it seems.

By John Irvin

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

I hope you enjoy these little trailers I’ve made for each of my books. Today is about StarQuest: Epix. It is the second prequel to the Novel.

The Anthology is going to grow more, but for now, StarQuest has these three stories: the Novel, Forgetfulness (check yesterday’s post), and Epix!

Johan Eryn and his task force command arrive at a new planet completely made into a huge city. Everything is super-proportional to what they’re used to.

But, even with how advanced they are, old ties to ancient religions are still prevalent. For instance, there’s the moons revolving around the city-planet. These were once worshiped as gods.

The ruler of the world welcomes the travellers into his palace. As a sign of their new-found friendship, he orders an update for the USS Patriot.

But not all things are good. There is a threat to the planet’s existence.

It’s not coming from where you’d think.

Can the patriot travellers help their new allies? Can they save the planet from being wiped out? Are they worthy of the over-sized gift given them?

Make sure you order yourself a copy so you can read and find out!

That’s all for the StarQuest Anthology…for now.

Tomorrow, I’ll be promoting one of my flagship series. Presently I have the first two books published and printing well. The third book is published, but there was an issue with the interior so I have to wait for that to be fixed.

Forgive me for that. So, because of that, I will only promote the first two books. These ones are in print as well.

In fact, they are in hardcover, paperback, and e-book!

Thank you for stopping by today!

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!

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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!

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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!

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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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