Help me get to

Alright, here goes. This is a little scary to me, in all candor, but I am doing it anyway. One of my greatest hopes is that my stories will be made into TV series or films. A lot of research has told me that the best way to get noticed is to grow your reader-base to 50,000 or more. My first book has passed 4,000 readers. What I want, more than making a few dollars from my readers, is to spread the word about the story and get more readers. As such, starting today, the entire series of "Saga of Mystics" (Age of Mystics / Fear of Mystics / Blood of Mystics) will be available for free on Smashwords and other sites which get their distribution of my work from SW. The link below will take you to my main Smashwords page. So, download and read the whole saga to your heart's content. But, please tell your friends to grab copies as well, as this will help me reach my goal.

This will take some time, I know that. But, I believe in the work and can't wait to see my characters on screen. Also, just to help out, I will be putting up a tip jar on here and on my Facebook page in case anyone enjoys the entertainment enough to throw me a bone. It is not necessary, but definitely appreciated!

Grab a copy here:

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ChrisWalters

And please consider leaving a review if you liked it!

Full list of books

Hello, friends and readers!

It has come to my attention that some people have been struggling to find my books, so let me link them all here. Some are available on Amazon only that are awaiting their exclusivity contract stage running out. I prefer Smashwords because it gets to all distribution chains (retailers), including Amazon. Eventually, I will publish through SW with all of my work, but it will show up from there on Nook, Kindle, Google reader, iBooks, etc.

The Saga of Mystics series is a trilogy:

Age of Mystics


This is my first book and is absolutely free for digital download every day. It is my way of thanking the readers and fans alike. If you have not read any of my work, I suggest starting with the no cost option. It is low risk and big reward!








Fear of Mystics

The second book in the series, currently priced at $3.99 for the digital copy. Save the trees, go digital!








Blood of Mystics

The final book of the trilogy is listed at $4.99. It never goes on sale, it just costs $4.99. So, you can get the full trilogy for $8.98. What a deal!







Other books by me, not currently a series:

Kelvin the Elven

Only available right now on Amazon for $3.99. It will e $4.99 when it moves to other platforms (has to do with royalty rates, sorry)






3 Moons and a Stranger

The same as Kelvin, it is available for $3.99 on Amazon, but will go up to $4.99 when it changes to a wider distribution.








For now, those are my listings. I have a couple of short stories out there as well, and another novel in process. I hope you enjoy them all!

Age of Mystics is always free!

Hey everyone! The second edition of Age of Mystics is available free on Smashwords now http://bit.ly/2LBcNVZ. New title, fixed some proofing errors, added more interesting words at random places, you'll love it! Anyway, it is now available for Nook, iBooks, Kobo, etc. Amazon doesn't let you put things permanently free, unless people ask them to price match. So, on that site it is 99 cents. Feel free to ask them to price match, if you want. Otherwise, you can follow the link and download your copy. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Surprise drop!

I am an impatient person. It is just something I have had to learn to live with. As such, keeping this a secret has been so damn hard! I am excited to announce that I am doing a surprise release of my 5th novel (and 7th work), "3 Moons and a Stranger"!! I have been working hard on this and many other things, and to be candid, I wasn't sure which I would finish first. I am really happy to bring this story to you, because it is darker than some of my other work, but also because it isn't contemporary fantasy. CF is my genre of choice, and that with which I am most comfortable. This is my first attempt at World-Building, and I sincerely hope you like it!

It can be purchased for your kindle, kindle app, or google reader at Amazon for only $2.99.

Keep your eyes peeled!

Something exciting is coming soon....

Re-writes

I am in the throes of rewrites for my 5th novel. It is amazing how one can finish with a sense of accomplishment, then slip into depression and dismay as they are reading through that accomplishment. I will admit that I like it, and will eventually publish it. I have found the voice, and purpose of this book, its intention and its obstacles. But, I will also admit that I spend most of my time thinking, "this is pure shit!" I hope to have dusted that excrement off, and polished it to a fine sheen before I release it. I am so sorry for the delays.

Incidentally, I should note, it is not the 4th Mystics book. That one is giving me problems of direction. It is also not the 2nd Kelvin book, that one only has an idea and vague outline. I don't have a story for that yet. This is something new, something unusual for me. It is not contemporary fantasy, it is just regular fantasy. I tried my hand at world-building and I think it is pretty good (if I may say so myself).

Lastly, if you are an author, you should really read Stephen King's "On Writing: a memoir of the craft". I have been reading it again, and it is soul-affirming.  This isn't a very interesting blog post, but my head is foggy from rewrites, and I just wanted to reach out and say, "I am still here!"

Love you all! Hope you like the work when it is finished!

~ C ~

The Last Freebie

Alas, my friends, the summer of free comes to an end this week with the final free download. This week (8/21-25) is Plague of Mystics, Book 3 in the Saga of Mystics. It has been a great joy to make all of my works available for free this summer for one week each. To ensure everyone had a chance to get one or more, I split them up by 2 weeks each as the summer went by, but now my Kindle promotions are over for the time being as I have used them all up. Please take the opportunity to download this novel: Plague of Mystics and perhaps leave a review (Book three is very short on reviews).

On another note, go ahead an comment on an indie author you like who you wish more people knew about. It is a great way to help out authors and get more people into the work you like!

I hope you downloaded a copy of each of my 6 works this summer, and I certainly hope you have enjoyed those you did. Please don't forget to leave a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads. You are the best!

Summer of Free continues

I am excited to announce that "Kelvin the Elven" will be listed free this week for the first time ever. For those who have only read my Saga of Mystics series, I hope you will download this book. It is dear to my heart for a number of reasons and I know you will enjoy it. It is free to download on Kindle from 8/7-8/11/17, and you can find it here:

http://amzn.to/2fL2ezZ

#ReadReviewRepeat

Fear of Mystics free to download for a week!

Four weeks ago, Book 1 in the Saga of Mystics was available for a free Kindle download. This week, from 7/24-28, you can download the second book in the series "Fear of Mystics" for free. The summer of Freebies continues!!

http://amzn.to/290ySOQ

Have a click, have a read, and please: #ReadReviewRepeat

Love you all! You are the best readers any author could ever want!

Interview

Hey everyone!

I got interviewed by Fiona McVie for her blog. If you want to take a gander at it, you can find it here:

https://authorsinterviews.wordpress.com/2017/07/19/here-is-my-interview-with-chris-walters/

It was super fun!

For the record, in the process of thinking on my feet, I forgot to mention an author whose work I would like others to discover. Daccari Buchelli has a site of his own, at http://www.fantasybooks411.com check out this fantastic author's work.

And just as a reminder:

Being a story-teller

I have been a storyteller all of my life. I love it. I was thinking this week about how our culture has changed. Authors bitch all the time about how, "No one reads anymore". To be candid, I sometimes bitch about that myself. But, it isn't true. People read, but their habits, patience, and acceptance of new ideas have changed. Everyone and their sister read the Harry Potter books. It wasn't just the few of us book nerds who were able to buy 450 million books which JK Rowling has written. But, what do we find if we look at her story in particular?

JK Rowling suffered for a long time in the same rut many authors find themselves in today. Her stories were not accepted, until they were. What is that magical spark which changed her from languishing in her writing to being a successful author? I guess if I could tell you that, I would already have sold a lot more books. She is a brilliant writer. But, even she struggled when she got away from the Harry Potter universe. She had good sales because her name was on the cover, but not the kind of sales she was used to. Is this because she can only write about wizarding kids?  I don't think so. It is because we, as readers, tend to gravitate to stories which have tickled our brains before. We like characters we know, places we know. This is why Fan Fiction is one of the most popular forms of writing these days.

So, what does this all mean for me? Why am I writing about this? It is basically to let you all know that I am still writing. For most authors, a 7 month span between books is simply not a big deal. But I can write a novel in about 6 weeks, and after a year where I put 4 books and 2 short stories on Amazon, I have this year put nothing out there. I am considering other mediums, other venues for the stories I tell. I will still write novels, because that is what I do. But, I have tried my hand in a pilot script this year (hopefully I will have more to tell you on that soon); I have been toying with comic books to get some of the stories out there; I have played with the idea of different forms of publishing. 2017 seems to be my year of exploring connection with readers and fans of the characters. So, tell me, which would you rather see? New stories, in new universes, with new characters? Or would you rather see new mediums which flesh out the characters you already know? What would tickle that part of your brain and bring you enjoyment?