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    Souls of Astraeus has been submitted to SPFBO 3

    Posted on May 7, 2017 by Jeramy Goble

    Souls of Astraeus is in SPFBO 3!

    The Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off (SPFBO), started and hosted by Mark Lawrence, has been an absolute blast to watch unfold during its first two years. The effort and enthusiasm exhibited by Mark, authors, and all involved bloggers, is more than appreciated by the entire reader and self-published author community.

    It’s no secret to independent authors, and fans of independent authors, that exposure and opportunity are some of the hardest things to come by when going it alone. This graciously sponsored and executed competition not only helps bridge the gap between legacy publishing and independent publishing, but also allows readers the chance to read quality work. Work from people who haven’t hit the lottery, (yet), with landing a connected agent and publisher. Sometimes, that’s part of an independent author’s plan, sometimes not, but there is no denying that here is still a stigma and exposure vacuum for self publishers. The SPFBO has helped to erase those stigmas, however, by allowing a standard to evolve with realistic expectations from the independent community.

    With that said, I luckily caught the announcement of SPFBO 3 in time, and was able to get my first book, Souls of Astraeus, submitted, and included in the initial round of competition. I of course have no expectations. I’m looking forward to the process, getting in touch with some new friends and their books, and that’s it. If I actually had any expectations, it would be that it won’t make it all that far, because Souls of Astraeus and the rest of the Akallian Tales Trilogy, isn’t traditional high, epic, or dark fantasy, but more of a space fantasy. But even then, the main protagonists in the book have access to their millions of past lives via “active reincarnation,” and the magic system essentially consists of thousands of different skills that are simply the inherent abilities of a particular race. So, who knows? We’ll see! Regardless, SPFBO 3 is already fun!

    If at any point any blogger, reader, fan of the competition, whoever, reads anything of mine, drop me a line! I’d love to know what you think!

    Souls of Astraeus is in SPFBO 3

    – Jeramy

    Main website: http://www.jeramygoble.com

    Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JeramyGoble

    Twitter: @JeramyGoble

    Posted in Book Industry, Jeramy's Books, Other Folks' Books | Tags: #amwritingfantasy, 2017, astraeus, blog, blog-off, fantasy, Goble, Jeramy, off, published, self, self-published, souls, souls of astraeus, SPFBO, SPFBO3 | Leave a comment |

    Another unintended hiatus

    Posted on October 26, 2014 by Jeramy Goble

    Hey all,

    I haven’t blogged since 9/11. It’s been a rough time since then. In addition to the regular stuff, like family, house, pets, day job, etc., I’ve also had a death in the family. I lost my aunt Sandra. She was an amazing soul full of kindness and love. So, in addition to traveling for that, it’s just absolutely been chaotic.

    The good news is, is that I seem to be coming down from this most recent hilltop of non-writing obligations and distractions and hope to spend a great deal of time on the follow-up to Souls of Astraeus.

    I should be blogging before Halloween, but I wanted to share the BIG spider my wife and I made and hung on our house!  Ha ha!

    Another unintended hiatus

    Holy spider, Batman!

    – Jeramy

    Main website: http://www.jeramygoble.com

    Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JeramyGoble

    Twitter: @JeramyGoble

    Posted in Not book related | Tags: blog, blogging, decoration, decorations, halloween, hiatus, spider | Leave a comment |

    Website tweaks

    Posted on September 5, 2014 by Jeramy Goble

    So, I knew all along that I’d need to do some re-branding and website tweaks after I finished Souls of Astraeus, but it came along a bit quicker than I expected. I realized shortly after I had launched the book that I’d want to point all future web traffic to a consolidated domain that represented me *and* all of my books, rather than a separate domain *and* website for each book.

    Website tweaks

    Pardon our mess. Well, actually, everything’s finished.

    I already had the jeramygoble.com domain, (obviously, as it’s where this blog lives), so I just changed my graphics and such to direct folks to jeramygoble.com.  I’ve tweaked my main website to reflect the new focus, (away from soulsofastraeus.com), changed some links and such, and I’m all set!  Also, I simply set soulsofastraeus.com to redirect to jeramygoble.com, so, the tweaks and changes should be seamless and slick!

    Sweet!

    – Jeramy

    Main website: http://www.soulsofastraeus.com

    Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JeramyGoble

    Twitter: @JeramyGoble

    Posted in Website & Blog Info. | Tags: astraeus, blog, Goble, Jeramy, jeramygoble.com, souls, website | Leave a comment |

    Schedule craziness

    Posted on July 18, 2014 by Jeramy Goble

    Whew! This schedule craziness has been driving me insane. I literally feel like I have had to fight to get to my blog tonight to provide an update.  After being VERY good with my previously announced posting schedule of Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, I haven’t been able to post in almost a month.  I truuuuuuuuly plan on not letting such a long lapse again.

    For some general good news, my wife and I have had mostly a fun and busy past month.  We had a big July 4th shindig with my family, and then we had some old college buddies come and hang out.  It was great to spend time with them, catch up, and we even went tubing while they were here.  So, so, fun…

    Continue reading →

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    Beefing up blog optimization

    Posted on April 25, 2014 by Jeramy Goble

    I spent some time considering blog optimization and have been researching and downloading a few WordPress plug-ins over the past few days.  I grabbed a few plug-ins to help with search engine optimization, so folks searching for various things might stumble upon something relevant.  There are some other things to help folks share posts they like, and some other back-end stuff such as automated database back-ups and page caching to help things move and load quicker!

    Wooooo!  It’s mostly boring stuff, but fun stuff for me behind the scenes.  And, and if the blog ever gets any kind of meaningful traffic, it’ll all help!

    – Jeramy

    Main website: http://www.soulsofastraeus.com

    Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JeramyGoble

    Twitter: @JeramyGoble

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    Posting schedule

    Posted on April 18, 2014 by Jeramy Goble

    I’ve been thinking about whether or not I should try and stick to a regular posting schedule.  Attempting to post daily doesn’t seem very realistic, and probably isn’t necessary.  If I try to do that, I might end up posting about what my wife and I had for dinner on some random day…

    So, I think I’m going to start off with attempting a Sunday, Wednesday and Friday posting schedule and add or subtract from there.

    Here we go!

    – Jeramy

    Main website: http://www.soulsofastraeus.com

    Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JeramyGoble

    Twitter: @JeramyGoble

    Posted in Website & Blog Info. | Tags: blog, posting, schedule, website | 1 Comment |

    Well, that didn’t take long…

    Posted on April 11, 2014 by Jeramy Goble

    I decided to go ahead and get rid of the forums, (linked to originally from the main website, like this blog is).  When I was making the forums, I was working too hard to come up with topics for it anyway.  All I really wanted was a way to talk with folks, to share things, and interact, about just a few different topics… Books, music, and technology, generally.  I can always add forums back to the website down the road, but for now, I think this will do, splendidly.

    – Jeramy

    Main website: http://www.soulsofastraeus.com

    Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JeramyGoble

    Twitter: @JeramyGoble

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    What? A website, forum, AND a blog?

    Posted on April 9, 2014 by Jeramy Goble

    Well yeah, for now.  I already set up and installed a forum on the website a while back, but I’m thinking of getting rid of that in lieu of this blog.  It’s quicker and slicker.  I don’t know.  We’ll see.

    – Jeramy

    Main website: http://www.soulsofastraeus.com

    Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JeramyGoble

    Twitter: @JeramyGoble

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