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Space Odyssey: Shattering Fates is available for purchase!

https://www.createspace.com/3370474 is the store link. (it will ask you to make an account, as you have to give your shipping address.) Price is $9.99 (S&H not included).

I'm gonna buy it. Thanks luffy mate  :wow:

Congratulations!

I'd buy it, but I do not have any money.

Anyone wanna scan the whole book for me?  :wow:

j/k

Enjoy guys, and lol carl. Its ok chronos, i know some do not have money, but i know there were some interested here who wished to buy it, so gotta let them have a go at it.

Good luck

No Album Art?

there's art, the site can take about 5ish days for it to appear, i have no control over it. There's art though. Done by our own Qualopec.

and thanks.

Stickied for pure awesomeness

Would get it myself but im not in the US so shipping + exchange rates + border fess + you get the idea would make it 30+ bucks for me to get.

understandable, and yay, sticky! now i don't need to worry about it sinking to the deadly depths of this forum, lol.

WOOT

I want one :)

Hey, can you post like part of the first chapter or something?  I rather buy something good over going in blind here :)

I guess.

SO exclusive, first chapter:

---Chapter 1---
The Secrets of CHOAM

It has long been known that CHOAM is the god of the market. If you needed to buy or sell anything, you went to CHOAM for the best deal in the galaxy. He could find you a buyer or product in minutes within your price range. Everyone used CHOAM without giving him a second thought. But what most people didn’t know is that CHOAM has a darker side, a side that was deeply involved in murder, corruption, and even theft. This side showed ever so slightly at a meeting between CHOAM and one of his regular black market transporters and thieves, one that owed him a favor but was reluctant to do the job he was asked to. This is where our story begins….

“Are you kidding? You want me to haul this through Teufel Hunden territory? You do know they have a bounty on my head after I stole a billion credits worth of material from them for you, right?” Seither Hawkins shouted in disbelief. He was one of the best thieves and transporters left in the galaxy, but even he knew that attempting a run through Teufel Hunden territory was dangerous enough, and doing so after having stolen from them less than a day ago was literally a suicide mission. The Hundens were not known for their forgiveness.

“I’m sure it shouldn’t be a problem for you, you’re one of the best fliers out there. Not many people can could fly through an asteroid field at top speed and come out in one piece, all the while losing the entire alliance that was following him.” CHOAM said as he unpacked a box of consumer electronics.

“Oh sure, the flying through isn’t a problem, it’s the staying alive part that is. I’m hauling ten tons of anti-matter cores through an area where even my name isn’t welcome. All they have to do is scratch my hull hard enough and I’ll be lighting up like my own personal mini-supernova!” Seither exclaimed as he glanced into a mirror. His dirty blonde hair always had that windswept look as if he had been flying an open cockpit ship. His eyes were a dark, piercing brown, and he had a slight tan that was his natural skin tone, as it was impossible to spend any time outside in the galaxy. He was about five foot seven, and he always wore a loose hanging shirt, preferably one of orange, and blue or black jeans, with his laser gun holstered at his right hip. He always wore the same, plain silver gym shoes. He looked nothing like your normal hotshot mothership flyer or thief.

“Well, that’s not my problem. I’m paying you thirty trillion credits to do this. Take it or leave it, it’s your call. But you WILL be doing this for me, regardless. You owe me, and I ALWAYS collect my debts, one way or another. You know that Seither. You were there when Big Broni refused to do the job I required of him and I had to….deal with him.” CHOAM threatened as he inventoried his stock. Seither recalled how CHOAM had tortured Big Broni with excruciating pain, dangling him over open flames by his wrists, and then dropped him into the flames and left him to die. It was a fate Seither would rather avoid.

"I don’t have much of a choice do I? I need to money to buy more defenders anyway. Is my ship loaded up yet?” Seither asked as he turned to walk out the door, fists clenched.

“Of course your ship is loaded up and ready to go, I was even nice enough to recharge your plasma tank for free. I knew you’d see it my way; everyone does, so I told them to go ahead and load it up for you. Remember, you only get paid if all the cargo arrives intact, and you don’t have anyone follow you there. My client wants this transaction to remain completely secret.” CHOAM said as he updated his broadcaster to inform buyers of the new items up for bid, and the ones that were taken off.

“Yea yea, I know. The usual nonsense I deal with working for you. I’m out of here CHOAM, have those credits ready for transfer.” Seither answered as he walked off. He walked up the cargo ramp into his ship, closed the cargo bay door, sat into his pilot’s chair, and began the lift off procedures. Once he was done, he took off out of CHOAM’s secret asteroid base and headed in the direction of his destination, the system Eta Aquarii in the Asellus Australis quadrant.

mmm thanks - and thats a relief - its not like the really old one you posted :p (its improved alot) ;)

can you post your sales every so often...

Thanks. I went back and did a lot of revisions throughout. It has a much better flow and what not.


I guess i could, however, I must ask why you want me to?

I can think of two reasons. Either:

A) They want to see the book succeed and their curiosity is a natural reflection of that. Or,

B) They are secretly planning on killing you and stealing your identity. Every bit of knowledge you supply brings them closer to their goal.

d**n you must be spying on me its a bit of A and a bit of B

haha i thought ken was gunna force people 2 buy it if sales were going badly :D

I tentatively call that reason C.

Aww im glad that you guys think of me in that way.

Also flying through a asteroid field is easy as pie Seither there all generally in nice stable orbit from floating around for a few 100 million years. Calculating there orbits is easy and the seed they go at is constant unless two crash. However that does not happen due to the fact that the orbit will have stabilized over a few hundred millennia as I said. The only situation where it would be at all dangerous to fly through one would be if something had messed up the asteroids orbits. Like a space battle or something large moving close by that had a strong enough gravitational pull such as a rouge planet.

Just thought you want to know of any scientific inaccuracies in your book. I can also see a few things I see as issue with your pros that I will mention at a later date but then again what do I know about writing.

ya...I think I can safely say my book ignores scientific accuracy completely, lol. But thanks.

issues with my pros? uh, huh? not sure i'm understanding you there, lol. But thanks I think.

I'll post sales at the end of this month, and then once a month, though honestly, unless people spread the word, I dooubt sales will change much after the first 2-4 weeks.

Sorry writing prose i type to fast... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose

Hehe, an insult to poor seither

No his prose is decent for a PoD book but if he really wants to grab more people in to his writing it needs some improvement.

And some better advertising. Go on other forums, post links and what not in the sigs  :12:

all writers can improve, lol. I'm working with 1 editor who is not a professional and myself, I get a lot of slack I think, as all prose editing comes down to me, lol. Usually its the editor who makes the book's prose a lot better. I also didn't entirely rewrite the stories, so they're still partially in their original form of writing from during my highschool time. However, I do thank you for your input, as all useful criticism is accepted. At least you're not going, it could be better.


I'm one person, who's time is taken up by a girlfriend, a job, and trying to write more. There's only so much advertising I can do on my own, lol. The fans can pitch in a little, lol.

I'll help any way possible.

Thanks. Just, spread the word as much as possible, here, there, wherever. I have an author site http://www.dewarbooks.com/, and the site to buy the book is https://www.createspace.com/3370474. You can link them if you want to.

If you want you can make up banners/signature images, whatever.

I'm not picky about how i get help, as long as it comes, I'm happy. Atm my "advertising campagin" is telling the 200ish people i know on facebook about the book and tell them to buy it and spread the word....and posting here.

Willing to ship the books out? My brother owns a book store, he might be interested.

Yes, if he is interested, let me know via PM and I can get him a code that'll cut the costs of the books down by 30%. So he can order however many he wants from the site using the code, have them shipped to him, and then keep whatever profits he makes. Keeps the transaction process simple and clean, as I have no other way to accept money for orders right now.

Ok, I'll look into it. Got a picture of what the book looks like?

I have the full cover image, yes. The site should have a front cover picture up soon (they said it takes about 5 days or so for it to appear). Book's dimensions are 8"x5.25"x<1"

I apologize now for the epic size of the thing, photobucket refuses to make it smaller when i post the link >_<

(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a201/Tori_Valor/SpaceOdysseyCoverfinal.jpg)

Very nice. I'm liking it. How long is it?

its 376 pages, but it has double spacing (I had requests for it, as it makes it easier on the eyes to read.) the cover prints darker than the image sadly, so the cover text is hard to read at times and doesn't jump out like it should. It's in the process of being fixed, so really, just makes the 1st run more valuable.

Try making the text on the covers red perhaps?

red doesn't fit the scheme of the book right. I've got a friend who's savvy in computer image designing, he's going to help me with the text, so no worries.

Hope it works out. Looks good though. And you get 90% of the profit from this?

no, i wish, lol. I get somewhere between 40%-50%, which is more than your average starting author gets off their books with a publisher.

Ah well, money is money eh? I wish you good luck with this. Would hate for you to have wasted your time. :wounded1:

I'm not in it for the money really, I love writing and have always wanted to say I was a published author. now I am. Even if I only sell a single book, I'm happy. So no time wasted for me. Thanks for the luck though, and let me know what your brother says.

Ok, no problem  :wow:

Hey if you want I could redo the book cover for you so the planets aren't so stretched out and make the text more visible.

Seriously!!?!?! that'd be amazingly awesome!!!!!!!!

lol okay its needs to be the same size as the one you posted right? if not let me know and  I'll change the size or if you want anything else on it changed let me know.

(http://api.photoshop.com/home_f6c7dc7e692b4de1aa294456270ba582/adobe-px-assets/a6aa0499165e4988b6de0fb24709181e)

nice cover

and Qualopec, you fixed it- was going to point out you spelled something wrong :p

yes, it must be the same size, so no worries there. and dear god that is beautiful. I'll upload the file now and send it to the printer to see if it prints right, if not, i'll let you know what needs fixing Qualopec.

and what word was misspelled lammalord? I can't seem to find it.

By the by..your name's Andrew?  :wow:

Seither if you make a sequel you can use any of the images I have in the fan art section for cover/reverse art if you like.  :12:

yes it is, lol.


Thanks blak, I'll look at them and let you know.

Well, your name's awesomeness disguised now :wow:

Umm....ok? lol.

Don't like?  :P And its a topic about you, its not off topic  L:)

its more of I don't understand why its my name now.

I'm bored of Andrew  :D

Did you send Sir Emi a free Autographed copy of Shattering Fates? You better of its his fictional universe your using :12:

hehe, yeah that is true, emi deserve to have one free copy lol

An autographed copy... not just a sucky not doodled on copy

you should totally make your autograph a poorly drawn smily face.

lol. I probably will when i get the money.

How dare you not post how many copies you have sold Seither tell us now!!!!!

Edit: lol just saw this on the order page: "This title is still being prepared for sale and should be ready soon."

It's undergoing reprint for the 2nd edition, new cover, fixed the errors we found, should be back up soon. and I've sold 20 so far, yet not 1 to any SO players strangely enough.

Must kill all SpaceO players who did not buy this book. I would but it would cost me way to much in shipping as I'm in Canada that and I'm unemployed :p

lol 20 with no spaceo players.. that's funny.

How could u sell 20 and none b 2 spaceo players we all need 2 lock ourselves in closets

ima buy one after i buy my college books :12:

Hey, sorry for the lack of communication, I had a computer crash a month and a half ago, and got a new computer about 2 weeks ago, but i've been busy moving into my dorm and starting college.

I messaged Qualpec for the redone cover again, and as soon as he gets that to me and it gets the ok, the book will be back up. Hopefully super soon. i'll let you all know.

Ok, lots of crap happened, got in the way, but finally, SO: Shattering Fates is back up. New price is $9.99. first post in the thread has been updated to show proper price, and the link is still accurate, will take you right to the page where you can read the book's description and purchase.

So those of you who have been wanting to buy it, but didn't fr whatever reason now can.

glad to hear things are on track now i plan to buy the book soon but i'm in the middle of helping my son with some rl things right now

is their anything about space pirates in this book?

No I don't think anyone involved with space pirates is named (well, maybe 1, Lammalord, can't remember if he was ever a part of you guys or not). and I never named space pirates themselves, sorry. The book was written over a huge span of time, involving only a few select alliances that were top of the game at the time, or that had someone I communicated with regularly. There just wasn't enough plot for me to add in more alliances. Sorry.