28-Jun 2011:
- There is a new interview up featuring me at Free Book Reviews! Stay posted as always for further developments.
14-Jun 2011:
18-May 2011:
- Time really does skip by too quickly. I just wanted to take a moment and link in the final cover for the sequel to Frozen Prospects. Big thanks to Katie Murray for putting this together. Please stay tuned for additional announcements about Thawed Fortunes in the next week or two.
29-Apr 2011:
- I've added Amazon & Economics to behind the curtain. It should help soothe some of the worries I've heard expressed by some indie authors lately.
- Great news, Scent of Tears and I'rone are both selling well enough now over at Amazon to occasionally pop up on top 100 lists!
- Still hard at work on the sequel to Frozen Prospects. We've got a preliminary concept cover live-I'll try and get a copy posted with my next update for comments-and editing is proceeding faster than expected.
- Big thanks to everyone that is spreading the word about my work. It seems like positive reviews are a big deal for people deciding to purchase or not. I'd really appreciate it if you all would take a few moments and post a review for the stories you've read. If you e-mail me the review right after you post it, I'd happily send you a free copy of another of my stories. I may not do this indefinitely, but for now it would be an easy way to get my complete works and only have to purchase one of them.
- Quick note for reviewers, I'm happy to provide free review copies of my work to you, just send an e-mail with the requested story and format, and a link to your site where you'll be posting your review.
5-Apr 2011:
- All 6 stories currently available for sale are also now available at Smashwords-check out the Product Page for links.
- The Indie Book Blog is having a huge month coming up soon with tons of free giveaways, interviews, and reviews. Stay tuned for more information.
- Time is running away from me once again, and I can't blame some of you for wondering what I've been up to for the last couple of months. The short answer is that the day job has been especially hectic. The long answer is I've still
been working on my writing, but given how pressed for time I've been I've had to be very selective regarding which projects I focus on. Getting all seven offerings formatted and up on Smashwords has eaten up a fair amount of
time, but it's been time well spent because Smashwords will get me distribution to Sony, Kobo, Diesel and Apple, as well as on the Smashwords site. Once files are uploaded it still takes a few weeks before the books ship to those
other stores, but it represents a way to dramatically increase my distribution which will lead to a larger fan base and ultimately the ability for me to focus all of my time on writing, which should make everyone happy because more
time means more great stories. Above and beyond getting everything I've got finished so far up on Smashwords, I've also been focusing on the last editing pass for the sequel to Frozen Prospects. Please be patient, things should
slow down soon at work giving me enough time once again to get additional content up on the site.
28-Feb 2011:
17-Jan 2011:
- I've added the full novel Frozen Prospects to the product page. It's available at Amazon or Barnes and Noble for the low price of just $.99.
- I've also started a running set of notes on how to convert a word file to something that will upload cleanly to Amazon.
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27-Dec 2010:
- I'm running behind on the 'free' content update this month, but have added a product page listing the places you can go to purchase some of my more recent short stories. It's a great way to support DOF and get access to some great new stories at a very reasonable price. Currently everything is $.99 each.
6-Dec 2010:
- I added Excited to Behind the Curtain.
18-Nov 2010:
17-Nov 2010:
- I'rone, a never before available book set in the same world as The Trial, is now availabe on Amazon.
- Please spread the word.
16-Nov 2010:
- Absence is now availabe on Amazon.
- It's availabe on DOF for free, but for $.99 you can help support DOF and have it in a convenient format you can bring along on your phone or Kindle. I'll be adding additional stories and even full novels in the coming weeks.
15-Nov 2010:
- I added That Which We Measure to Behind the Curtain.
- Stay tuned for an exciting announcement in the next few days!
26-Oct 2010:
- Many aplogies for the late post this time. Yesterday was an especially hectic day. I added That Which We Control to Behind the Curtain. Is there anything specifically that someone would like me to talk about with regards to writing?
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2-Aug 2010:
- I added Time to Behind the Curtain.
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21-June 2010:
- I added Passive to Behind the Curtain.
31-May 2010:
- I added Market Trends to Behind the Curtain.
- I've pulled The Trial from Smashwords, but the first six chapters are still available here on DOF. I hope everyone enjoys them.
10-May 2010:
19-April 2010:
- With the addition of Chapter 31 of The Greater Darkness, the full book is now available here at DOF for free. If you've enjoyed the first volume of Geoffry's tale, please consider contributing to DOF. The next time you're in your paypal account you could send a donation to dean.l.murray(a)(t)hotmail.com (replace the (a)(t) with an @), or in a month or so I'll have this same full version of the text up in a variety of e-book reader formats for the low fee of $2.50 on Smashwords.com. Every contribution is greatly appreciated and puts me that much closer to being able to do this full time.
- Please note that I'm currently in the process of finishing up Broken & Torn and consequently have less time to devote to maintaining and updating DOF. I'll continue to add new content-in all three sections of the site, but will be moving to a schedule where I update once every three weeks, so the next update will occur on or around May 10th. Remember, the more you spread the word about DOF and convince your friends to buy novels or donate to the cause, the more time I'll be able to dedicate to producing more fiction for everyone.
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4-January 2010:
- I've added Chapter 16 of The Greater Darkness.
- The site seems to be displaying oddly in IE 8.06. Thanks for your patience as I continue to try and track down the cause.
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26-November 2009:
- I'm very sorry for the extended nature of the wait, but we finally have the complete version of The Trial up on Smashbooks.com. I went ahead and made the first 50% of the book available for free, so you can read more than just the first 6 chapters currently available on DOF.
- In the spirit of the season, I've added next week's installment of The Greater Darkness, a couple of days early. I hope everyone enjoys Chapter 11.
23-November 2009:
16-November 2009:
9-November 2009:
- I've added Chapter 8.
- For everyone currently waiting anxiously for the remaining portion of The Trial, I'm afraid I have to report a bit of a setback. I've finished the editing process, but am not fully satisfied with ifiction, which is what I was planning on using to distribute the actual files. I'm investigating other alternatives, but for now am leaning towards smashbooks. If anyone has other recommendations please send me an e-mail, I'm anxious to arrive at a good solution.
2-November 2009:
26-October 2009:
16-October 2009:
- It's looking fairly certain that I won't be able to post the next installment of the Greater Darkness per the normal Monday schedule. Instead I've added Chapter 5 today so that nobody will have to wait longer than normal to get their fix.
12-October 2009:
5-October 2009:
- I've added Chapter 3 of The Greater Darkness. It's been incredibly fun to go back through TGD and see how the various plot elements come together. I hope you are all enjoying Geoffry's story as much as I enjoyed writing it.
- I've seen an increase in traffic coming off of GMAIL and Yahoo mail. I appreciate all of you that are trying to spread the word about DoF to your friends. With no real marketing budget, DoF will continue to rise or fall largely depending on that kind of positive word. Once again, thanks to you all.
26-September 2009:
- I found a few sections of the site that needed updating, so I went ahead and added Monday's content today. I hope everyone enjoys the early present as it were.
- I've added Chapter 2 of The Greater Darkness.
- I also want to send out thanks to Tim over at Be The Story He's done a bit of a brief review of Absence and linked back to DoF. If you haven't ever stopped by his site it's a worthwhile trip. Particularly, I've been astonished at the parallels between some of the things he's got up on his site and some of the pieces I've been putting together for Behind the Curtain. Specifically I like his assertion that the better we understand people and the way they think, the better writers we'll tend to be. Look for a new subsection to show up some point down the road incorporating some of my ideas in this area.
22-September 2009:
- I realized I hadn't done the formatting for Chapter 1 of the Greater Darkness. The file has been updated with the appropriate html tags, sorry to all of you that read through it before I made the correction.
21-September 2009:
- I've finished the rewrite of Chapter 15. It needs to sit for a bit and then I'll post it to I-fiction.
- In the meantime, I've posted Chapter 1 of The Greater Darkness. I'll continue to post the book one chapter each week until the whole story is up. I hope you all enjoy Geoffry's tale.
14-September 2009:
- Done with the last editing pass for The Trial...but...I've decided one of the later chapters needs a re-write. Honestly I'd expected to have the full book finished and posted on Ifiction by about now, but my day job is a little more hectic than normal right now. In the meantime I've finished posting The Glossary.
7-September 2009:
- I'm still not quite finished with editing the last 80% of The Trial. To help tide everyone over I've added the first part of the The Trial-Glossary. I designed the book to be readable without the glossary, but tried to weave some interesting tidbits from all of the background material floating around in my head.
3-September 2009:
- Corrected The Trial-Chapter 6. I forgot to add italics to the HTML to reflect the internal dialog. My apologies all for the omission
2-September 2009:
- Updated the landing page to try and drive people further into the site. I'm still seeing greater bounce rates from organic searches than I'd like.
- Big surprise, DOF is on the first page of Google for 'Online Original Fiction Romance'!
31-August 2009:
29-August 2009: I wanted to share some quick stats on where the site's at right now:
- Holding in at 35 on Google under 'Online Fiction'.
- Coming in at 36 on Google under 'Online Fiction Serial'.
- Currently at 33 on AOL under 'Online Fiction' and 'Online Fictin Serial' both.
- Showing up at 13 on AOL under 'Online Fiction Romance'.
- Nothing there that's going to drive hordes of the traffic to the site yet, but I am starting to see people come in on searches. More importantly, I'm starting to see new traffic that can only be word of mouth. Thanks again everyone that's telling their friends and family about DOF.
26-August 2009:
- Fixed the Sneaky Tricks link that it turns out has been broken pretty much since the site when up. Enjoy the newish content
- Exciting news! DOF just hit 22 on Google for the search terms 'Online Fiction'. It looks like people have been bookmarking the site quite a bit. Thanks everyone and please keep spreading the word.
24-August 2009:
- Added The Trial-Chapter 5
- Made a few slight changes to Chapters 1 and 2 of the Trial based on reader feedback.
- Exciting news! DOF just hit 34 on Google for the search terms 'Online Fiction'. Please keep linking, bookmarking and telling your friends about us.
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4-August 2009:
- Added a Link Page
. It is still mostly just a skeleton but it should grow over time as I shake loose some time to update the links.
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