There was a great thread in the Kurtherian Fans group offering names and planets and races, with the accompanying background data. I have these suggestions already copied over and will be using more of them. Thank you to everyone who dropped a few lines for me.
I hope everyone enjoyed this story. It was fun to write in a way that I found most relaxing.
Peace, fellow humans.
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That’s it—break’s over, back to writing the next book. Peace, fellow humans.
Author Notes - Michael Anderle
August 8, 2018
THANK YOU for reading this story, and our author notes in the back!
“Rivka can’t live and have a future without you.”
So, that sentence above was something I was going to tack on to the first paragraph when it hit me how true it is. We (the bigger ‘we’ of Indie Authors in general) only have so much time in our lives. Some of us are independently wealthy. (Not me, but I hear there is at least one Indie Author who is independently wealthy. I imagine they have a Unicorn that is twelve inches tall for a pet, or maybe a tiny dragon.)
However, most of us work for our living whether that is work full time in writing and publishing (me) or they work at another job and write part-time (many, many others.)
Either way, our time is limited, and we have to decide where that time is going to go. For some authors, our favorite character was accepted by fans and became a way for us to both feed our families and write about who we want. For others, we have so many characters that we can only choose the characters that resonate with the fans.
Why? Well, in a word, income.
If it takes anywhere from two weeks to three months to write a book, that book needs to be contributing to our income as much as possible. So, characters that resonate and pull in the fans who WANT to read the next book become a very important aspect of choosing what (or who) to write about next.
This isn’t always true, of course. Sometimes characters’ scream to get out of our heads and for some writers, they MUST get that out of their heads before moving on. Brownstone, for example, was a character that I really, really wanted to write about but the fans wanted more Bethany Anne.
So, I delivered.
Not only to please the fans (thank you so much for pushing me along!) but also because Bethany Anne stories sold.
There, I said it. I admitted that income was a driving factor.
Once I completed my twenty-one books for Bethany Anne, I took a three-month sabbatical to get out other stories that I had wanted to see the light of day (Protected by the Damned (Michael Todd) and The Unbelievable Mr. Brownstone.)
Now to explain how that affects Rivka.
Craig has MULTIPLE series he works on. He is a beast when it comes to writing (seriously, I’m not joking. Check out the story he wrote in a weekend one-time at Gary-Con.) But even Craig has to make decisions on which series to move forward, next.
Rivka’s story usurped the next Terry Henry Bad Company story in the queue (and I’m happy to admit as a fan, I helped push my own character back a release.) Craig was going to write Bad Company, then Rivka 2… But, after some cajoling, Rivka 2 became the first, with Bad Company becoming the second.
However, Craig didn’t want to let down the Bad Company fans, so he made sure there were some scenes with our lovable T.H. in this story.
As an author, we have our favorite characters we wish to write about. Then, we have the characters our fans want us to write about, and somewhere in the middle, we meet.
For any authors you follow and read, ‘vote’ with your reviews and messages on Facebook or other places to encourage your favorite characters to get their next story. Admittedly, that can be a challenge if five thousand fans want the next book in a series, and you plus one other person want the next one in another of your author’s series. (If that happens, I suggest premeditated begging, or offering ways to make it happen. That will have to be the subject of another author note sometime.)
So, for Rivka to continue living and existing, feel free to pester the shit out of Craig to write more of her. I did my job and moved her from #2 in the queue, to #1, and now we have her book right here, right now. It’s your turn to turn up the heat for book 03.
“Rivka can’t live and have a future without you.”
Ad Aeternitatem,
Michael Anderle
Books by Craig Martelle
Craig Martelle’s other books (listed by series)
Terry Henry Walton Chronicles (co-written with Michael Anderle) – a post-apocalyptic paranormal adventure
Gateway to the Universe (co-written with Justin Sloan & Michael Anderle) – this book transitions the characters from the Terry Henry Walton Chronicles to The Bad Company
The Bad Company (co-written with Michael Anderle) – a military science fiction space opera
End Times Alaska (also available in audio) – a Permuted Press publication – a post-apocalyptic survivalist adventure
The Free Trader – a Young Adult Science Fiction Action Adventure
Cygnus Space Opera – A Young Adult Space Opera (set in the Free Trader universe)
Darklanding (co-written with Scott Moon) – a Space Western
Judge, Jury, & Executioner – a space opera adventure legal thriller
Rick Banik – Spy & Terrorism Action Adventure
Become a Successful Indie Author – a non-fiction work
Metamorphosis Alpha – stories from the world’s first science fiction RPG
The Expanding Universe – science fiction anthologies
Shadow Vanguard – a Tom Dublin series
Uprise Saga – an Amy DuBoff series
Enemy of my Enemy (co-written with Tim Marquitz) – A galactic alien military space opera (coming late summer of 2018)
Superdreadnought (co-written with Tim Marquitz) – a military space opera (coming fall of 2018)
Books By Michael Anderle
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