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Yesterday, I was asked if REPEAT is still coming out this month. The short answer is “yes!” I won’t bore you with the long answer . . .

Those of you who are already on my mailing list—and yes, the March newsletter is late, but it’ll be worth it, I promise—have already read the prologue of REPEAT, so you have an idea where this is going.

Oh, and if you aren’t on the mailing list, here’s your chance to sign up. Look to the right . . . there you go, at the top of the sidebar. Click and sign up to join the Tribe—you can get free stuff, sneak peeks, and more. All you have to do is (well, yes, sign up!) talk about the Reduced Series. That’s it.

So, back to REPEAT:

Jules and David and EJ are on their way West. David, if you’ll recall, took a long, solo journey out there several years back, but he never talked much about what he found. So there’s that. Plus, naturally, there are a few glitches on the way: for instance, right now, the gang is somewhere around Fort Leonard Wood. Or what used to be the military base. Or maybe it still is, kinda/sorta . . . Anyway, they’re in the middle of a run-in with some, er, unsavory types.

Next week, I’ll update you on where everyone is and what they’re doing, and, SPECIAL BONUS ALERT—if you’re following me here, YOU can submit a sub-story idea in the comments! AND, you’ll get a character named after you!

Naturally, the first thing I did after finishing REDUCED was to send it to a few beta readers. I also queried half a dozen agents. And heard zip.

So, after making a few tweaks as per my readers’ suggestions, I simply published the book.

I really had no plan. I wrote it, yay, I wrote A BOOK! And I was done. I used CreateSpace, picked a cover template (but used my own photo), and I was good to go!

And then someone said, well, great, but what happened next?

Next? How should *I* know??

So I sat down to write REUSED. But this time, I had a plan. Sort of.

A couple days in, I got stuck. And then more stuck (stucker?). So I gazed around my office, trying to find something to do to avoid writing this book.

And then it hit me—I’d publish OTHER people’s books! Really, how hard could it be? I’d fielded so many questions about my CS experience, so yeah, that’s it. Start a publishing house.

So I did. Rocking Horse Publishing.

I planned to release 6 books in 2013, including the one I was writing and was stuck on—I wasn’t even sure I’d get any submissions.

I got one. Then another. Then a virtual flood of manuscripts.

RHP published 12 books that year; we did 17 this year, and have 14 scheduled for 2015, so far.

REUSED? Oh, yeah—after I got done with the flurry of starting the publishing house, I sat down and wrote non-stop for four weeks. REUSED came out in December 2012.

And then someone said, well, great, but what happened next?

Crap.

So I scheduled RECYCLED to come out in March 2013. I had nothin’. Zip. Postponed the launch.

July arrived, suddenly and without warning somehow, and I had promised my fans, er, fan, or well, something like that, that the book would ABSOLUTELY be available in July.

Finally, I sat down to write. Three weeks later, RECYCLED saw the light of day.

Whew. A trilogy. I DID IT!

And then someone said, well, great, but what happened next?

Darn. Repeat. Oh, yeah—REPEAT! That’s it!

Coming in March 2015 . . .