CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Mack ‘n’ Me: Origins , the first novel in my science-fiction series, Mack ‘n’ Me ‘n’ Odyssey , released today on Smashwords , and will soon be available on Amazon, DriveThruFiction, and via Smashwords and Draft2Digital distribution. I ran away from home to find a better life—not be forced into one. You can call me picky, but a girl likes to be asked if she wants to work for you, not coerced—and Odyssey should know better. Now, I have to find a way to kick free—of Odyssey, and my trainer, Mack—without getting myself killed. Surviving the mission is just the first step. Getting out from under, that’s gonna take some doing.

Just to let you know that Dear Tiger: Help Me Find My Sisters , the sixth book, in my Dear Tiger series is now uploaded and available for pre-order on Smashwords and Amazon, and will soon be available on Kobo. It releases on April 20, next Friday. Simone and Tiger are almost within touching distance, when their lives take dramatically different directions, but Simone needs Tiger’s help, and he faces a difficult choice. Does he try to join her, as she races to rescue her sisters, or can he be of more help where he is? And will this be the mission that ends with them together? Or will they be torn apart… again? Dear Tiger: Help Me Find My Sisters is the sixth chapter book in the Letters Across Space series. It can also be found in The Dear Tiger Omnibus , which compiles the first six books in the series into a single volume.

I've decided I'll go ahead and make things available on Kobo . I'd already started, but then I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue, so I thought about it for a while, and decided I'd see how things went. Unfortunately, this means I have a lot of catching up to do, which is what I'm doing, now. I'll give a general update of what I add to the site each day, until I've caught up. At the same time, I'll be adding the new releases at the same time as I upload those to other sites. Here are the titles I've added so far this week - they may take a couple of days to appear, but they've been submitted:

The first novel in the Mack ‘n’ Me ‘n’ Odyssey series is now available for pre-order from Smashwords , and soon from Amazon. Book 1 will be released in April, and Book 2 should follow in May or June.   I ran away from home to find a better life—not be forced into one. You can call me picky, but a girl likes to be asked if she wants to work for you, not coerced—and Odyssey should know better. Now, I have to find a way to kick free—of Odyssey, and my trainer, Mack—without getting myself killed. Surviving the mission is just the first step. Getting out from under, that’s gonna take some doing.

Well, the first week of April went well, right up until the seventh, when my back tweaked, and set me, literally, on my back. From that time, right through to the end of the second week of April, things got tricky. I could only sit for limited lengths of time, so I had to triage what I could and couldn’t do. Projects of a lower priority were dropped, including the work I was doing for National Poetry Month, and both the poetry and flash fiction collections. I also dropped the 30 Days of Writing challenges by Shut Up & Write, but didn’t stop writing every day; I just had to be more focussed, so I could hit my publishing deadlines. I’m hoping to pick up some of the short fall in the third week of April, but we’ll see how we go. My back is still not a hundred per cent, so I’ll be pushing it, but very, very carefully. In the meantime, here’s what got done over the last two weeks. Progress: April 1-7, 2018 New words produced: 28,466 Outlines and Notes: 3,792 Words