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Endless Seas: Waits For No Man

March 30, 2023 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

First story Captain’s report: Sailing through contested waters, we are headed to the free port of Koto for repairs to the keel damage sustained meeting the El-Fax.  Our lookout has sighted a Gegmun sloop, which has moved to intercept us.  Although the small vessel is no threat to an Inquisition class ship like the Phoenix, […]

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Friendship Magician

March 28, 2023 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

I’ve released my next book, Friendship Magician. This is the sequel to my cozy urban fantasy book Merchant Magician. Self-exiled from her family of traders in mystical goods and services on her 23rd birthday, the Friendship Magician must make her way in the world: meeting a Scandinavian werewolf, a business-minded minotaur, an air elemental with a […]

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Endless Seas: Never Meet Your Idols

March 23, 2023 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

Captain’s report:  We have embarked on our maiden tour and are en route to meet the El-Fax, a friendly culture being considered for acceptance into the Pantheon.  This voyage will also serve as the shake-down cruise for our ship the ‘Phoenix’.  Three days’ sail out of Mytertown, the voyage has been mostly uneventful to this […]

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Endless Seas: Never Meet Your Idols

February 9, 2023 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

I’ve released my next book, Endless Seas: Never Meet Your Idols which is set for release on February 28th. This is my second fiction book and my first full length novel. It’s a nautical, high-fantasy, action-adventure. For the narrative structure, it’s set up as a series of short stories (11 in total), which follow the […]

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The Problem With Amazon Vella

December 20, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

Like many writers, I was excited when Amazon’s Kindle Vella debuted. I had been writing serial fiction, had tried the major platforms, and was disappointed with each of them. Amazon has smart people and tons of money, so I (along with others) hoped they’d get it right. Vella For Readers Sadly, what they released is […]

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Marketing Your Indie Book Via Online Forums

November 25, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

Online forums exist for every imaginable interest. From entertainment options, like fantasy, sci-fi, or romance, to self-help to personal finance, like stock or real estate investing. In the earliest days of the internet, these took the form of Usenet newsgroups and in modern times they take the form of subreddits, forums attached to a blog, […]

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Marketing With BookCrossing

November 23, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

A while back, the paperback version of my urban fantasy novella “Merchant Magician” went on sale for cheaper than what it cost me to buy author copies. I grabbed 30 copies for $3.79 per copy. I didn’t know what I’d do with them when I ordered them, but I figured there’d be something I could […]

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Wacky Writing Idea #16: Monster Orphanage

November 21, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to do […]

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Wacky Writing Idea #15: Everyone In The World Started Having Visions Of The Same Person

November 18, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

For this, and any other Wacky Writing Ideas, I happily release them into the wild for anyone to use. If you like the idea and want to write it up, do so with my blessing! If you want to change it or use it for something else, have at it! If you really want to do […]

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Recorded My First Audiobook

November 16, 2022 by John Champaign Leave a Comment

This week (on Monday, November 14th) I launched the audiobook version of my non-fiction book “Negotiating After Getting A Job Offer“. I’m not much of an audiobook “reader” myself. Almost all my reading is done electronically on an iPad, with a tiny amount of print reading on the side. I keep encountering the fact that […]

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