This is going to be a new monthly post, where I recap my writing progress, interesting articles, videos, and podcasts I read/watched/listened to, and books I finished.
Writing update
- I worked solely on the next Guild of Tokens book, Recruit. It’s currently scheduled for an early April release.
Links and things
- Why Disney should hurry up and start development on a rebooted Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
- Reply All #132: Negative Mount Pleasant
- An Excruciatingly Deep Dive into the Avatar Theme Park
- Epic book unboxing:
Opening this box of Guild of Tokens: Novice paperbacks is basically the same as the lighting of the beacons of Gondor and I have the music to prove it. pic.twitter.com/0Hn8w75AeQ
— Jon Auerbach (@JAAuerbach) January 18, 2019
Stuff for writers
- Two great videos from Chris Fox: Launching an Amazon bestseller and Why You Probably Shouldn’t Be Advertising
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Marketing Podcast Ep. 214: 2019 Marketing and Publishing Predictions
- Related, from Lindsay Buroker: Thoughts After Eight Years of Self Publishing and About Whats Ahead
- How to promote your book for free
Books I read
- Only one this month: Fool’s Assassin, by Robin Hobb