"Story Release Updates!" or "The Return: The Revenge: Part 2: The Prequel"

Welcome to the third and final homecoming post of 2013.

Today, I wanted to get everyone on the same page about my stories and their various futures.

On the fan fiction front, new chapters of both Spiderman: Revenge and Mass Effect: Babel are finished, and they will be going up within the next week. My hope is to continue a monthly release schedule for these on an ongoing basis. I’m particularly sorry for this delay because it came when both stories were on rather unfortunate cliffhangers.

I will also begin teasing a new fanfic, followed by a formal announcement, and the first chapter - all taking place in the near future. After the positive response I’ve gotten from Avengers: The Hangover, I’ve decided to try my hand at a more long form comedy fic.

Warm Stone exists in a slightly different space though. With NaNoWriMo come and gone, I’ve taken a step back and looked at what I want to do with this story. I intend to continue it. I also intend to make it available for free, as well. But without that “50,000 word” goal, I can make the story as long and complex as I see fit. This means spending a little more time thinking about the directions that each story strand will take. I will be posting Chapter 7 before the end of January, but Warm Stone will also be moving to a “monthly” update schedule.

That said, here are the exact release dates for all of my upcoming stories!

Mass Effect: Babel - Chapter 4
Wednesday January 23rd

Spiderman: Revenge - Chapter 5
Monday January 28th

Warm Stone - Chapter 7
Wednesday January 30th

I hope you all come back, and recommend these stories to your friends! The more readers I get, the more content I can bring to you! There will be a giveaway once my Facebook page makes it to 100 followers, so spread the word and get people to subscribe.

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Warm Stone - Chapter 6

The adventures of Alyssa continue in this chapter! She’s one of my favorite pieces of this story to write, even though we’re still in the early inception stages of her plot branch. There are a lot of exciting turns to be taken with her.

With the links to previous chapters fixed, I hope you all can actually begin reading again. Let me know your thoughts! Writers are creatures of attention. We crave it. So let your opinions, both positive and negative, be known!

Warm Stone
Chapter 1 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?o137wpyg673zvod
Chapter 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?7lrt03dcgai8gtm
Chapter 3 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?75mwrf7fcx0zamb
Chapter 4 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?874fd9cgds520oo
Chapter 6 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?y4e652ufh22j505

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Warm Stone - Chapter 5

This chapter was a long time coming, and I’m sorry about that. I’ll save you all the details of my personal life and just leave it at this - apartment hunting consumes a lot of time and energy. But I’ve found an apartment, don’t have to deal with moving until the end of December, and am going on vacation soon! This means my mind will be freed up from all those everyday worries, which will result in a lot of writing.

Here’s the fifth chapter of Warm Stone, wherein an even more random set of characters are introduced. I’d like to state, for the record, that I absolutely know what the endgame of this novel looks like. So while it may all seem chaotic now, I promise the strands will come together in a manner that is (hopefully) very cohesive when all is said and done!

Warm Stone Chapter 1 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?o137wpyg673zvod
Warm Stone Chapter 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?7lrt03dcgai8gtm
Warm Stone Chapter 3 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?7lrt03dcgai8gtm
Warm Stone Chapter 4 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?874fd9cgds520oo

Warm Stone Chapter 5 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?8hfeakawvq3wdmq

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Warm Stone - Chapter 4

Admittedly, progress has been a little slower on Warm Stone than I expected. I'm going on a trip, visiting home, in a little over a week. On top of that I am apartment hunting, and trying to make time for people. Basically my writing has taken a significant hit.

That said, I am still fully committed to getting 50,000 words down by the end of November. That's 13 days! So if I manage to achieve my goal, there should be more Warm Stone soon, and at a very rapid pace.

Warm Stone Chapter 1 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?o137wpyg673zvod
Warm Stone Chapter 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?7lrt03dcgai8gtm
Warm Stone Chapter 3 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?7lrt03dcgai8gtm
Warm Stone Chapter 4 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?874fd9cgds520oo

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Official Author Page - http://www.facebook.com/julliangmortimer

Mass Effect Giveaway

To celebrate the impending launch of Mass Effect: Babel, it’s time for another contest! Starting today (November 15th) and going until the end of the month (the deadline will be December 1st), see how many of your friends you can get to subscribe to my official Facebook page (a link to which can be found at the bottom of the page)!

Do you know people who love fan fiction? Then sell them on Spiderman: Revenge and Mass Effect: Babel!

Or maybe your friends are the types who like to read dramatic books? Well, tell them about Warm Stone, my half-finished novel following the parallel lives of a ranch hand and the characters he creates through writing.

There will also be original science fiction coming sometime in 2013, along with blogs that are (hopefully) fun to read. Basically, there are tons of reasons to get someone involved! Lots of ways to sell!

And what prizes are involved this time?

The Mass Effect Trilogy box set, for the system of your choosing (Playstation 3, X-Box 360, or PC). One of the greatest sci-fi epics in gaming, and you’ll get the whole thing for free!

 Also, a Mass Effect poster created by Henry William design (link: http://www.etsy.com/shop/WilliamHenryDesign).

These will be yours, and all you need to do is get your friends to subscribe. Just like the Avengers contest, the person who brings the most new subscribers to the page will win. Be sure to have them tell me that you sent them, otherwise you won’t be able to get proper credit.

But there’s more! If we get over 100 page likes by the end of the contest, then a runner-up will also win a copy of the box set! If we get over 120 page likes, the person in third place will receive a copy of the poster from Henry William design.

Thank you all for your support! Let’s see if we can’t get the page beyond 100 subscribers before the end of the year!

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Official Author Page - http://www.facebook.com/julliangmortimer

Warm Stone - Chapter 3

Here is the first of two story uploads for the day (the second will be Spiderman: Revenge chapter 3, sometime later on tonight).

As this chapter will make clear, I am definitely juggling a lot of balls in Warm Stone. Just go into it knowing that I have a very definitive ending in mind, which means it’s all leading somewhere. This includes the oddness that was chapter 2.

Chapter 3 brings us back to a more traditional storytelling structure. From here, you can also see a fair amount of what to expect from the novel. It is, in fact, told from a number of narrative perspectives. How they are all relevant to one another will become a bit more clear on each rotation of characters, although the complete picture won’t be formed until the very last few chapters. Still, hopefully you’re willing to go along for the ride, because it will only be getting stranger from here.

I’ll see you later on, with more Spiderman: Revenge!

Warm Stone Chapter 1 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?o137wpyg673zvod
Warm Stone Chapter 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?7lrt03dcgai8gtm
Warm Stone Chapter 3 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?7lrt03dcgai8gtm

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Warm Stone - Chapter 2

Apologies for the slightly late upload. I promise it shall not happen again anytime soon!

Here is chapter 2 of Warm Stone, my NaNoWriMo novel. It’s a little on the short side, but with it comes the first traces of what makes this novel simultaneously unique and very strange. Chapter 3 shows how it all gets even weirder, as well.

Speaking of which, Chapter 3 will be going up on Friday! To find out exactly when, follow my official author page (linked below)!

Thank you for the continued support, and happy NaNoWriMo!

Warm Stone Chapter 1 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?o137wpyg673zvod
Warm Stone Chapter 2 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?7lrt03dcgai8gtm

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Warm Stone - Chapter 1

Here it is, Warm Stone’s first chapter!

I will be uploading several chapters each week, depending on my progress on the novel. This is very rough shape. I’ve only taken a cursory glance towards editing it, and it has not been to visit my actual editor. That said, I’m quite proud of the work I’ve done on this book so far. While my original goal (to avoid this piece being anything except a drama) has gone up in smoke, I can still honestly say that I’ve never written anything like this before.

Chapter 2 will be going up sometime on Wednesday, and Chapter 3 will be hopping onto the internet Friday. The odds are you won’t see the full shape the novel shall take for a while. The story hops around a lot, and the first few chapters barely scratch the surface of what I’m doing. Still, the writing feels solid, and I have a firm grasp of the characters.

Be sure to let me know your thoughts! You can reach me via my official author blog, linked below.

Warm Stone Chapter 1 - http://www.mediafire.com/view/?o137wpyg673zvod

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Official Author Page - http://www.facebook.com/julliangmortimer