I published my first novella

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I was trying to write a novel really, but apparently I'm an underwriter... but anyhow, if anyone might be interested here is my book, the ebook of which is going to be free for a couple days before going back to 99 cents:

Fullness Of Time: from the depths of the seas to the heights of the heavens (Humanity's Sunset Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N91615Z/re ... vCb45WCRYT

The next story I plan to write is Station Of Darkness, which will essentially be like this:

https://youtu.be/PwAi0ElUIUM

I have the pinterest boards in which I visually organize my ideas in the description, and claim no rights on the artwork there, just fyi. It's just meant to convey a basic sense of what I intend to write next. I'm not sure if I'm going to keep Jonas as a villain or turn him into a hero, at least for Station -- though he could turn again for a later story.

I'm thinking I'm going to have a picture of each planet on each book in the series, Earth already is on Fullness, Station will have Venus, and though I'm unsure of the future stories' names and content yet, I'm intending to just keep that trend of featuring a planet per book in this Humanity's Sunset series.

Congrats

ALRIGHT! Always good to have another published author on WP!

Welcome to the club.

Congratulations!

A novella? How many words is it? I actually have a story of my own I'm hoping to get published within the year. It's all written up, but I feel could use a little bit of polishing before it's ready for me to put out there.

Thanks!

True, it probably is good for people with Asperger's to express our thoughts so as to normalize our styles of thinking. Maybe that will help neurotypicals, particularly high Si (introverted sensing) types to adjust over time, rather than treat us like aliens so much.

Thank you!

Thanks too!

It's about 25,000 words or so I think it was. Let me see... 25,368 including all the outer material, and subtracting that... 24,744 words. I wanted to write double that, and maybe I will in a second edition of that, but I don't want to just add fluff to it, you know? Probably are a trillion ways it could be improved though, , I just don't see them right now.

For now though, here it is at least: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07N91615Z

And hopefully I'll be able to write the next book in the series this year and publish it in a few months. I took so long writing this one because I was studying Jungian depth psychology so as to try to create distinct characters. Still need to learn more of that too probably, but it stinks when people hand wave it away because socionics wasn't done by Jung and so much nonsense of that sort. Anyhow, this year hopefully I'll be able to focus more on writing than studying for writing. Be nice if I could buy new air conditioners for my home before summer too, otherwise I'll likely be writing mostly at the library like one of my few friends recommended. Maybe a restaurant with free refills on soda would be nicer honestly, but I don't want to get in trouble for "loitering" or annoy workers either.

I hope you'll get your book published too! I did amazon's self-publishing route since I don't feel like dealing with the gatekeeping hassle of traditional endless rejection, but whichever way you go I hope it works out for you.

Oh I definitely hear you on the soda. I try to make sure that I'm well stocked up on that for any of my writing sessions. That and I have a special creative writing playlist on Spotify that really helps me out with the creative process.

I appreciate the well wishes and I'll definitely try to check out your story sometime in the very near future. I'm currently signed up for a program starting this Monday that helps get a book published through crowdfunding. What really captured my attention about it is that they don't actually charge you anything unless your crowdfunding campaign is successful.

Yeah, it's annoying getting brain fog when trying to write. It's like, well time to stop. Argh. Especially in the summer, when the air conditioners died in this stupid oven of a house in satan's armpit of San Antonio. Heat stroke city, just about. Even more annoying than my netbook overheating and shutting off on its own, my sister's husband, who owns both the guest house I live in and the rest of the houses on this dog poop mined property, he whines about any bit of water I drink. It's like, give me a break.

Cool that you're seeing about that program. What I need to do is be able to afford an editor, a cover artist, and marketing. Hopefully by the time of my next novel being finished writing I will have enough to at least buy cover art from Fivver, and my friend with CFS might help with editing because she says she likes to edit things as a hobby, but oh good grief marketing is so annoying. So far I have one sale. Yay. 39 cents, woo.