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Jon May
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United States
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I've published my first novel, Method of Life. Buy it, read it, review it: [link]


The Synopsis:
In The Future:
There was no great war of nations, no thundering voice from the sky unleashing a rapture of judgment on the kneeling masses, and no great extinction level event of cataclysmic proportions. The Fall of Man came incrementally over half a century, in the form of economic and social decay, spiraling civilization into collapse without so much as a whimper.

At least that's the story people believed.

Many had tried throughout human history to control the world. Dictators had conquered half the globe and free men had seen their efforts squandered by the selfish masses. Never had either side done as much to unite humanity in common cause, as Jacob Morrison. Where they had failed, he succeeded, binding humanity in a single effort to halt his reign of destruction across the world.

Together, they repaid his treason with blindfolded gunfire. And after a time, all that remained of his legacy was a son that had never known his father and the broken world left to rebuild.

The Method of Life:
Caleb Johansen has spent his life hidden away from those who might wish to see him answer for his fathers crimes against the world. In an effort to to blame anyone for their poor lot in life, the past has finally caught up with him in the town of Rosa. A resettlement camp abandoned by the government and turned self sufficient community, Rosa is an island amid the wasteland that stretches out between the privately owned Districts, where a lucky few live lives of luxury.

As his ailing guardian prepares him for the next step in his life, Caleb must entrust his future to soldiers of fortune hired to ensure his protection. Harmon McCullough is such a man, though not without a conscience and the understanding of the larger stakes in play and the risks involved for the band of brothers standing with him and friends on the wrong side of his mission.

Creasy is one such friend, and must contend with the one obstacle Harmon presents, a currency not in great supply. Dispatched from the District New Haven to take Caleb into custody by any means necessary, Harmon and Creasy will meet for the last time in Rosa, both with the realization that nothing can stand in the way of completing their missions.

Caught in the middle of their everyday lives, Alaster and Veda Nelthrope must contend with being swept into the whirlwind of danger sweeping through Rosa. With problems of their own, their lives may never be the same as the interaction with events unfolding around them force resolutions from aspects of their lives they both had been afraid to face.

One night will change their lives forever and by the time the sun rises, their worlds will never be the same.
Interests
I still haven't decided how to release the first book.  I know the story that needs to be told, but the way it unfolds leaves a couple options open.  I could go with the way it is now and publish the first book.  The story works on it's own, even though the actual island and namesake of the series is never seen in that story.

For a while I thought about combining the first and second books into one larger work.  They flow together well and in the second book, New Haven is at finally seen first hand.

Now though I'm toying with the idea of serializing a large part, into individual chapters.  A new chapter or two would come out ever other week sort of like a comic book format and it would be up to you the reader to collect them all...at least until so actual collected edition was released.
I also like this idea, because it's not being done a great deal.  I've built up enough completed chapters of the first and second books that I could start releasing in the next couple weeks and continue releasing chapters for most of the rest of the year.  Also, working in shorter installments allows me to shift focus of the plot at times and in a larger sense, I don't have to wait until an entire book is done.  When I'm done with a new chapter, I can get it out as soon as it's done.

The problem is though that once I start putting chapters out there, that's it.  The story is set and there is no going back to change things if problems arise.  I'm far enough in at this point that I don't foresee that being a huge deal, but it does cause me a bit of hesitation.
I really like this idea though.
Let me know what you think.

The price for each installment would be .99 cents.  That's as low as you can go on amazon without being free and still earning a profit.  Also, in this case, I'd be inclined to make the first section a bit longer and maybe release it for free.
I think there is a way with premium content and the coin system here on DA, that I'll be able to release episodes here as well.

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~moth3R May 10, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
Jon-Michael, thank you for the watch! I hope you'll enjoy my future works as well! Cheers!
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Thank you so much for the WATCH! Always nice to have a new fan! :)
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Thanx a lot for the Watch=D
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You're welcome.
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You're welcome.
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