The Pre-Order is Up

The Calling of Aethan Lightbringer is available for pre-order. I thought it would be ready by Monday or Tuesday, but it didn't make it until Thursday. It took longer to go through and make corrections than I thought, but I was still on track. Most of the delay was CreateSpace. They used to approve changes in a few hours. It's taking them a day now. Forgetting to change the cover color didn't help and added a day. I'll have to plan for that next time. By next time I mean for AoE, the young adult book that's pretty much done but was on the back burner while I worked on this one. AoE still needs a little work to fluff up some skimpy prose in light of the good editorial advice I mentioned in a previous blog. I may put it up for pre-order this week some time. It depends on how life goes.

The plan was for a 99-cent, pre-order period of a week. Because of the delays, the new plan is to extend the 99-cent period until after launch and switch it to regular price about a week after the pre-order started. There's also a delay on the final cover, but I'm not going to delay the book just for that. January means January. Release is the 30th. Did you think it would be the 31st? I wouldn't do that to you.

I saw some media deception this week I wanted to highlight. The liberal press was shocked at Hilary's defeat. They've been brutal and vicious in attacking Trump like the racists did to Obama after his election. There was a story this week that tried to smear Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway and White House press secretary Sean Spicer that shows the liberal media's true colors.

Spicer said that the inauguration had "the largest audience ever". The media had pictures of the crowd in Washington and had a fit, because it wasn't the largest crowd ever. They hit Conway, who said Spicer had used "alternative facts". In a press briefing, Spicer clarified. He was counting the physical crowd plus the television crowd plus the online streaming crowd on sites like Facebook, etc. His alternative facts weren't Orwellian the way the liberal media is portraying this story. It turns out Spicer was right. It actually was the largest audience ever, including the Reagan inauguration's. The press ignored that. When Spicer said audience, he meant the whole viewing audience. When the liberal media said audience they were very narrowly defining it as the physical crowd in Washington and twisted this whole thing into something it wasn't. They've been doings stories like this ever since Trump was elected, and I'm tired of it. This is not a political blog, but I'm calling them on it this time. I'm exposing what they're doing so you can be on the lookout for this kind of dishonest, hateful "journalism" that itself is nothing more than Orwellian doublespeak and propaganda. They keep getting caught doing the same things they're accusing other people of doing. That's something else to be aware of.

Have a great weekend.