April
is a Winning Month!
Welcome to another month! April was a very difficult
month for writing. I had the opening of “The Secret Garden”, the crash of my
computer and a thousand other things vying for my time. I’m pleased to report,
however, that on April 30th, I jumped over the finish line for
50,000 words in April. That was a close
one! I had to find all sorts of little times to write a little here and there.
It really does add up.
My hard drive situation is still not taken care of, but I
have high hopes. I will get back to posting writing stats once I get back my
old records. Until then, just know that I’ve done about 200,000 words already
this year! Many fun projects coming your way soon.
Canticle
Kingdom eBook
Great news! “The Canticle Kingdom” is now available as an
eBook! You can get the Kindle edition
here: http://amzn.com/B007TWN5KY and on the Nook:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-canticle-kingdom-michael-young/1018964936. Many of the Canticle Kingdom prequel stories
are going eventually to be in eBook form as well, and the two sequels I am
writing will be in eBook form as well, so this makes me very happy.
Conferences
I went to the LDStorymakers conference this weekend down in Provo and it was just to soak in all
the knowledge and to get a chance to pitch to agent Holly Root. I think it all
went really well! I also loved seeing
all of my writer friends and catching up on their amazing projects. We are in
good company in our organization.
Last week, I attended a great workshop given David
Farland about outlining. If you ever have a chance to take anything from him,
jump at it. He has trained many NYT bestsellers and is one himself. You can
find more about him at http://www.davidfarland.net.
CONTEST
All the stories are in for the Christmas Anthology, and
one of the major steps that now needs to be made is to name it.
To this end, I’m announcing a contest. Send me in your
best name suggestions and we’ll take a vote. If you suggest the winning name,
you’ll get credit in the anthology, a free copy of the anthology when it comes
out and your choice of one of my books or a free three-chapter edit from me if
you’d rather.
Keep in mind the nature of the anthology, which is that
it is comprised of short stories based on Christmas songs. Please keep all suggestions family friendly,
and be creative as you can be. Send all submissions to: thecanticlekingdom@gmail.com.
‘Til I see you again, live bravely and write well!
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