“No Man an Island” is complete. I wanted to say thank you to all the readers who have visited my story world. I hope you found it worthwhile. A big thank you to commenters, I learned a lot from each of you. A bigger thank you to people who are buying the book on Lulu.com, and who have made donations to support a writer’s creativity. I am honoured and grateful to all of you.
Now that the story is complete, I’d appreciate anyone who wants to do a review over at Pages Unbound. I encourage everyone to check out this site for more reading, there are tons of great authors. If you want more from me, there’s still The Samaritan Project which I will begin new chapters for if there is interest (which means COMMENTS 🙂 ) and The Surprising Life and Death of Diggory Franklin.
Because Pages Unbound is getting bigger and bigger, I don’t want to put up “Diggory” too soon, and have it be lost in the shuffle. I’m going to submit it after about 10 chapters are up. There are currently four or five. But, I would like volunteers to do reviews first, so that we can build some momentum. Anyone interested? Because the more momentum will equal more fans and comments, which makes me a better writer. Then you get better stuff to read. Plus, more fans equals hopefully more donations, which means I can write more often. It’s win-win-win-win. I think. 😉 Also, you can always buy a Lulu edition and show support that way.
I’m basically saying, NMAI might be complete, but I’m just getting started. There’ll be more from me to come, and I hope you all come along for the ride. It’s been a pleasure, ladies and gentlemen.
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June 7, 2008 at 7:09 pm
nomananisland
YAYYYYYYYY!!
I sold 8 books on Lulu, doubling what was there before. Thank you thank you thank you to everyone!
June 8, 2008 at 3:42 am
Allan T Michaels
You’re very welcome. I look forward to reading the print edition.
And thank you. The pleasure has been ours.
June 8, 2008 at 9:17 pm
srsuleski
I’ll review Diggory when you put it up. 🙂
And I’m going to rewrite my NMAI review once I’ve finished the book.
June 8, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Suzanne Francis
Congratulations on your mammoth effort! I hope you sell lots of books. Any thoughts on the next one?
June 8, 2008 at 10:24 pm
nomananisland
Thanks Sarah, sounds perfect!
Thanks Suzanne: Up above there’s a link for my current web-novel, The Surprising Life and Death of Diggory Franklin. It’s funnier and less intellectual than No Man an Island, and so far a lot of fun to write. I’m doing very little planning, and letting it take an organic path of its own.
In the meantime, I’m hard at work in my secret (writing) laboratory, concocting a sequel to NMAI. It will tie together some loose ends from this story — not really loose plot threads, but more emotional ones caused by the journey of this story.
I think it will have plenty of surprises for everyone.
June 8, 2008 at 11:55 pm
sonjanitschke
I’ll review Diggory of course.
June 9, 2008 at 12:24 am
nomananisland
THank you Sonja. 🙂
June 10, 2008 at 7:55 pm
sonjanitschke
Dude….
I been thinking that when you get started on the sequel you might want to set up some forums, if the sequel is going to be as in depth and intricate as NMAI. I think the Invision ones are free or whatever they’re called.
June 10, 2008 at 8:15 pm
nomananisland
HMmmmmm.
I’ve been wondering about that myself. Do people have an interest? I’ve noticed we tend to start interesting conversations on chapters, and then they don’t continue into the next very often: maybe a forum would keep you all talking 😉 .
I don’t think I can avoid being intricate (I have a twisted mind) but I don’t know how the sequel will turn out: I’m not spending a decade on this one. Then again, I learned a lot about speeding up the process doing NMAI: some of my best chapters were written in the past year. Basically all the bonus stories and everything from the Rewind onward.
June 11, 2008 at 9:53 am
Katie
Lemme know what changes need to be made.
Also: http://www.forumotion.com/forum-free.htm
June 11, 2008 at 12:06 pm
nomananisland
Thanks Katie! Super job on the Astarte picture ( I have my first fan-art, how cool is that?)
And that’s two votes for a forum, so I’m totally looking into it.
June 11, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Katie
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii151/katiet518/astartecopy.jpg slightly changed. 🙂
June 13, 2008 at 10:21 am
nomananisland
Just a reminder: we need 2 volunteers for a Pages Unbound Review for The Surprising Life and Death of Diggory Franklin. We have 3 but the goal is 5. I would really like this story to start strong over there, and not get lost in the crowd.
June 17, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Allan T Michaels
I’ll do a review of Diggory.
Also, just got my copy of NMAI from Lulu. It looks really good!
June 17, 2008 at 9:53 pm
nomananisland
Thanks Allan, that’s four! Check out an important announcement on Diggory on Thursday or Friday!
July 30, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Teresa
I think I started in the middle so I’m going have to back up. I love what I read and can’t wait to read more.