Labor Day Weekend?

Now while I am typing this I do actually have a physical calender behind me and there are a variety of digital calenders that are at times around my general sphere of perception, but due to whatever sort of fog of war that specifically targets dates I did not realize that this was Labor Day Weekend! I feel like I should have known, but that I suppose says more about my lack of attention rather than the lack of having the means to actually have known. Perhaps I was just distracted by the awesome return of the Colbert Report and The Daily Show (love those guys), or my recent Orphan Black binges but for whatever reason I really did not know it was Labor Day Weekend.

I feel now like I should be doing something special, or important, or life changing, or world changing! But the what and how are slipping my mind, so I will simply say Happy Labor Day Weekend peoples of the USA and the parts of the world that have any idea what I am on about!

The Free Sale

So yeah, today the 2nd episode of Tales of a Fable Star is free on the Amazon kindle store, and will be free from today through the 1st of September. Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LXO0WW8

Tomorrow the 1st episode of Tales of a Fable Star will be free on the Amazon kindle store, and that will continue until the 2nd of September. Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KKQSNHG

On the 1st of September the 3rd episode of Tales of a Fable Star will go on sale, although Amazon has it up for pre-order so there is that. Link:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MWBXMNC


Now you might be wondering why the 2nd episode is on the 'Free Sale' before the 1st episode, and I will tell you why. Orphan Black. Was so busy watching that show that I missed the midnight deadline which pushed the first episode's sale into tomorrow rather than today. So lesson for today people, don't start watching Orphan Black until you have ten solid hours to commit to it and watch the entire season in one go. But yeah, those sales are going on/will go on, and here is a picture of the wonderful new cover art for the third episode.

Orphan Black Binge

I hate Orphan Black. By that I mean I can't stop watching Orphan Black! It probably isn't serious, I mean it was 6 PM when I started watching the show and its only what... yeah it is 2 AM. Curse this show and all of its unbearably awesome goodness! There are clones, there are very strange staring sessions, dialogue that is just priceless, a riveting plot that leaves you wanting more until you have been watching it until 2 AM and debating whether or not you really have to sleep at night.

  While I won't mention any spoilers *cough* forget about that clones comment *cough*, I do have to say that people seem to get stabbed, nail-gunned, shot and otherwise hole-put-in-places-there-shouldn't-be-holes-ed all throughout the show. And it leaves me wondering how so many people survive all of this stuff, now while sure this is the least of the fringe sort of thing that makes this sci-fi-ish show good, I have noticed that I don't mind it. Normally if you watch someone get shot, hit by a car, a piece of rebar stabbed into them and so on, you would think "Oh that is so unrealistic, I am done watching!" But after watching this show I find myself believing it all and wanting more. If nothing else than to figure out what a fish with wings has to do with anything, you know minor stuff like that.

  I just finished the second episode of the second season after powering through the last half of the first season. So perhaps it does get explained why fish with wings matter, or why no one wants to involve the police in anything that the police should probably be involved in, or why scientists have enough money/power to have seemingly endless men-in-black minions who have no problem doing some pretty messed up stuff, or how a single actress can play so many different roles and sell each role so very well. Hats off to Tatiana Maslany for having such amazing skills, but dang it I just don't want to go to sleep before watching another episode!

The Mun Moon

So I have been playing Kerbal Space Program a lot lately. If you didn't know, it is a game where you are in charge of a NASA-like group and have to build rockets and go to try (and usually fail) to get to the game's version of the Moon and Mars and such. It is rather addictive, though I am not entirely all that good at it. It is very much a simulator, so so you have pay attention to very minor details that will eventually radically change things later on. But hey, who has the time for that? I sure don't! Who cares if I have over a dozen space ship crews stranded on the moon? They love it up there!

Ah, I should probably get back to writing. So if you just so happen to read about a bunch of little green men repeatedly crash spaceships into a planet and get stranded without any hope to return to where ever they came from... I so totally had nothing to do with that. Nope, not at all. Heh.

Pre-Pre-orders

Nothing like writing until your eyes refuse to work. I did a rather lot of writing today, largely edits and such to Episode 3 of the Fable Star series (Oh yeah that is up for pre-order https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MWBXMNC ) but also some 'test' writing for some other concepts I am working on.

I have had ideas for a variety of book concepts set inside the, as I like to call it, 'Fableverse'. Though I am having trouble getting certain characters just right. I won't lie I am a white guy, or as I like to call it 'Khaki' or possibly beige, and so I sometimes find it difficult to write characters that are not white guys. I personally like stories, in text or otherwise, that have a large variety of characters of all shapes, sizes, and colors. Primarily because I already know what it is like being me and living my life, and want to know what its like to be anyone else and live their life. Though I now have a new found respect for people who are able to create such varied characters, because let me tell you it is not easy.

What is particularly interesting is if you take into consideration aliens. If you include them among the varied characters list, than most writers are terrible at varied characters because just about all aliens are written like one group of humans or another. Though if they were truly alien then they wouldn't act anything like how a human would act, but they also seem to anyway. And I have to admit that I am guilty of writing aliens to be a bit too human. Although I do still want to write up an alien species that has a built-in top hat and monocle, if nothing else than to write up another species with fingerless gloves and sunglasses to have the end all in inter-species warfare.

First!

I hate editing. Sure, proper spelling and all of that is important. But I just dislike going through lines of text over and over again to spot one misplaced period, though I suppose finding that you accidentally put chapter 9 between chapters 6 and 7 is important enough to keep me going. Not that I have ever done that of course. Oh yeah this is my first blog post. Should probably be more proper. *Ahem*

My name is Jon Kole (As if you couldn't tell already), and I am an aspiring author. Currently writing a science fiction space opera series. I hear they are up on Amazon, and are called The Tales of the Fable Star, but all I hear are lies and slander. Oh hey look its a book cover! No wait, its two of them! Now, what were the chances of that?