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You're probably surprised to see me posting so early in the month. For at least since the beginning of the year, I've been posting at the end of each month. But I thought I should post something now to keep everyone updated on my upcoming book of short fiction, "Bad Apps". Since I'm not a deadline-oriented person, I try to keep people updated as much as possible on my book projects so they can have a sense of how close I am to publishing it. And it is a lot closer yet!
"Bad Apps" Blurb
"Bad Apps" is a collection of techno-horror short stories. They explore mobile device apps that are strange, sinister, and deadly. Many of these stories encounter the weirdly scientific while others go right to the brink of the supernatural. Some of the stories blur the lines between reality and virtual reality, others feature handheld devices that connect to parallel universes and alternative timelines. One story involves a young woman who discovers that her computer’s search engine is reading her mind. In another story, a teenager downloads to his phone a voodoo doll app to use against his enemies. There’s also a story about a streaming music video that conjures up a demon. All of these techno-terror tales show the nightmarish consequences of when technology goes too far on both the programmer's end and the user's.
The book's introduction and stories are now formatted for publication. Now I'm working on front and back matter for the book, front matter being the title and copyright pages and back matter being things such as the author's bio. However, I was held back from doing that a little the other night because I was spending over an hour trying to match the word count between the Kindle Create version of the manuscript and the original Word version to make sure I hadn't lost anything during the formatting process. However, Kindle Create doesn't have a word count tool. So, I had to copy and paste the text from KC to a new Word document and compare the count that way to that of the original Word manuscript. Fortunately, nothing was lost.
The illustration for "Bad Apps"'s book cover is finished. After I upload the manuscript to Kindle Direct Publishing I'll have the cover reveal. I would do the cover reveal before that, but KDP requires the manuscript, along with the front and back matter, to be uploaded before the cover can be made with the platform's Cover Creator tool. So, the reveal will be occurring by next week sometime.
As I've said in past posts, the first ones to see the finished cover will be the beta readers, who will receive a downloadable version, and then the newsletter subscribers, then, finally, the public at my Facebook and Instagram pages. The beta reading is done, but those of you who did not participate in the beta reading or aren't subscribed to my free author's newsletter can be in that second group of people to see the cover reveal early. How can you do that? Simply sign up for the newsletter by this Saturday! Again, it's free!
Because I'm considering this a special post, there's no Book-To-Movie (BTM) review in it. But the monthly BTM post will be here on the last day of the month (August 31), so be sure to be here then!
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