X. Ho Yen's Author Newsletter (8 Oct 2023) - CotF and SAA releases!
Greetings Dear Subscribers,
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* "Minimum Safe Distance" News
* "Custodians of the Future" News
* “Space Autistic Author” VLOG News
* The standard stuff
============ "Minimum Safe Distance" News ============
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Good nyews everyone!
MSD has received another lovely editorial review and rating (8.75/10), this one from The BookLife Prize (of Publisher’s Weekly). See the review here.
That BookLife Prize review is nothing to sneeze at!
============ "Custodians of the Future" News ============
“Custodians of the Future” releases tomorrow (Monday, 9 Oct 23) with a USD0.99 discount price. This promotional discount will last one week. MSD is also on sale for USD 0.99. Hopefully the recent very nice editorial reviews of MSD will provide ammunition for recommending this indie author to potential readers! :) There will be another promotional period later this year. Gift a book!
Here’s the CotF universal eBook vendor link: https://books2read.com/CotF
Bookshop.org link (paperback, org supports local bookstores, alternative to the ‘Zon and with better print quality, too): https://bookshop.org/a/89285/9780976615866
============ “Space Autistic Author” VLOG News ============
”Log 1” of my garage-animated, fictional world VLOG, “Space Autistic Author”, is also now available.
I hope you get at least one small kick for humankind out of it.
View it here:
https://XHoYenAuthor.com/vlog
Earn 10 Karma points if you get the Kubrick movie references. Earn another 100 Karma points by posting/sharing the link EVERYWHERE. Email the link to your grandparents and your grandkids and everyone in between. No WAIT, not grandkids younger than age 18! But everyone else, and their friends. Think of all the Karma points I’m giving you the opportunity to earn!
Beyond this mailing list, this youtube channel will be my new public outreach vector, ultimately to replace my ineffectual and actively thwarted presence on social media. It relies entirely on re-posting of the link.
If there are any creatives out there who’d like to participate in future episodes as a ‘guest star’, all it takes is a one minute recording of answers to a couple of standard questions, and maybe some consultation on a preferred visual representation in the animation. Contact GrandUniCOO at gmail to make arrangements.
“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”
― Leo Tolstoy
============ The standard stuff ============
Here’s a printable, one-page ad for MSD if anyone has a nice bulletin board/ad column nearby.
All purchase options can be found in the X.HoYen Author Store (https://XHoYenAuthor.com/books) or at GrandUnificationMonastery.com. You can give Kindle eBooks as gifts: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200652260
Thanks for sticking with me! I hope it’s at least mildly entertaining to watch this author second career/hobby thing come together. Please do share my page with fellow realism-based sci fi fans, especially anyone who enjoyed Weir’s The Martian and Project Hail Mary, Older’s Infomocracy, Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, Card’s Speaker for the Dead, Mandel’s Station Eleven, or Corey’s The Expanse. I'm convinced Minimum Safe Distance would appeal to the same audience, because I wrote it for me and *I'm* in that audience. Thanks for your support! XHY https://XHoYenAuthor.com