One of my beta-readers, DeLynn, is a longtime family friend.
Life has taken her away from the area where I live; however, when she came back, to visit family and friends over the 4th of July, we visited.
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I meet with other writers from my area every week.
These writers have been meeting for nearly twenty years. I’ve only met with them for ten. The only time I don’t attend is when I’m out of state.
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I’m late posting this because I’ve been so busy, but I need to make the announcement.
I’ve retired.
No, I don’t spend the day in a hammock (well, not all of it) and I haven’t quit writing.
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Work began Titan Encounter audiobook in early March and now it is done.
We started by having Micah Hansen design a cover and moved on to listening to auditions. It didn’t take long to select actor Jeffrey Fellin to produce and narrate the novel. Jeffrey has extensive experience in both film and theater and the right voice for the book.
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Kyle Pratt meets Kyle Pratt in Eek Alaska.
A week ago Loni, the Eek School secretary, said, “I just met someone with your name.”
“My first name, Kyle?”
“No your whole name, Kyle Pratt,” she replied.
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When you live in a rural Alaskan village the post office becomes a lifeline.
Eek is hundreds of miles off the Alaska road system. There is only one dirt road in the village. It runs from the airport through the village to an old airport on the other side. It doesn’t connect to any other road. This rough and often muddy lane is used by ATVs, snowmobiles, and as a walking path.
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One definition of irony is an event that “seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.”
With that in mind, I submit this picture.
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Who is Kyle Pratt?
That’s the problem. How do I get people to know me and my writing? Well, this week has been a step in the right direction.
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We had a great response to the recent interview on ApartmentPrepper.com.
As part of the interview, we gave away copies of Through Many Fires in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook format.
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The cover design for A Time to Endure has been approved and released.
Because of the enthusiastic response to Through Many Fires, I immediately started writing the planned second book in the series. Titled, A Time to Endure, this next book is now my number one writing project. Click here to see a progress bar graph of the writing.
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Through Many Fires is featured in Backdoor Survival’s fifth Book Festival
About two weeks ago the website Backdoor Survival, one of the top five survival and prepping websites, announced that Through Many Fires would was selected to be part of their Spring 2014 Book Festival. Today, as part of the ongoing event my novel was featured. The editor also interviewed me and asked about upcoming books.
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Through Many Fires, my latest novel, received its 100th 5-star review today.
I am thrilled with the praise readers have showered upon the book. One recent review compared Through Many Fires to the New York Times bestselling novel Patriots, saying, “If you enjoyed James Wesley, Rawles ‘Patriots’ you will most likely love this….”
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A fan wants me to autograph Through Many Fires
Yesterday, after a long spring day of inattentive, restless, students the school secretary, Loni, brought me a torn cardboard mailer. It was addressed to my personal mailbox but delivered to the school. This often happens in the village, but this time I didn’t recognize the return address.
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Through Many Fires is being featured in Backdoor Survival’s fifth Book Festival
I didn’t plan it this way, but for the second time this month Through Many Fires has been featured on a prepping and survival website. This time the novel is part of Backdoor Survival’s book festival.
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Through Many Fires was featured on ApartmentPrepper.com, one of the top survival and readiness websites.
Over the last few years Apartment Prepper has featured significant books in the survival genre such as Expatriates, by James Wesley Rawles, and Apocalypse Drift by Joe Nobody. I’m pleased the editor, Bernie Carr, was willing to add Through Many Fires to that notable group.
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The ebook version of my debut science fiction novel, Titan Encounter, is on sale in Britain.
Actually the ebook is also on sale in the United States, but we are promoting it using a new service called eBookSoda.com. While they promote books worldwide I noticed that they are based in Britain and list prices for books in British Pounds and Euros as well as dollars.
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