CHRISTMAS/2010: Heres your new 2011 calendar I hope youll use one bookmark to mark your current read and remind you of my series, then give the extras to friends or family members. Be sure to also download the first quarter 2011 desktop calendar from the gifts page. Merry Christmas from R.J. and Marty.
DEC/2010: Are you an Indie Bookseller? Wed like to promote your store on Twitter, especially during the Holidays. To qualify for our Buy Local page and Twitter tweet, simply offer our novels online at any small discount, then let us know.
NOV/2010: PARALLEL OPS desktop calendar, final
installment. The NOV-DEC 2010 calendars are ready for free download (PDFs) from the Parallel Ops website.
Visit » ParallelOps.com and look for "What's New".
SEPT-OCT/2010: I’ll be in Portland, OR, Seattle and Chicago
Order Tractrix, Tsubute and Triangle » here and I’ll personally sign and ship them out while in the U.S. Place your orders any time after Aug 31. Click here to » request special dedications.
AUG/2010: Its new! Now you can take Seeds anywhere!
TRACTRIX
Beach read: paperback 9780977910908 (Ingram)
Travel read: Kindle B003WJRHC0 (Amazon)
TSUBUTE
Beach read: paperback 9780977910915 (Ingram)
Travel read: Kindle B003ZYEVQC(Amazon)
TRIANGLE
Beach read: paperback 9780977910939 (Ingram)
Travel read: Kindle B00466H8TU(Amazon)
If you dont have the device, you can download the free reader for your computer or phone! Just click the link.
JULY/2010: Author-signed novels available soon
From May 2009 until Aug 2010, the only way to receive signed copies of Tractrix, Tsubute and Triangle has been to visit two local independent bookstores near Los Cabos in Baja California Sur:
El Tecolote Libros in Todos Santos and Allende Books in La Paz. Now, for a limited time, youll be able to order them » here and Ill personally sign and ship them out
while in Portland from mid-Sept through mid-Oct. Order them any time after August 31. Be sure to let me know about special dedications to » comments.
JUNE/2010: News from south Bimini
After months of little or
no news about the research around Bimini, today Dr. Greg Little notified me of several new findings and some great photos he posted to his website, which I immediately made available from
» TheMegaBlog.com. As most of you know, this blog is where my fiction and actual science meet. I started it before I wrote TRIANGLE as a kind of research project for my writing. Has my fictional sea floor anomaly proved to be true?
And how do these findings relate to the Lost City of Cuba? Stay tuned!
MAY/2010: A charity give-away turned out to be alot of fun APR/2010:
Event writing and other time off MAR/2010:
Social Marketing and Blogs! No time to write! FEB/2010: Can you believe two months of 2010 have gone by? JAN/2010: Enjoying La Paz and retirement in Baja
I always had the idea that retirement would provide me more time to write, and in some ways it has. But I seem to find myself as busy (or busier) here in Baja than I ever was back home in Portland, Oregon.
However, when you consider Im more than a third of the way into three novels, its about the same as completing one novel. If youre patient, I think youre going to enjoy reading three parallel-timeline novels together or separately. Itll be your choice. Copyright 2010 © R.J. Archer, La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico All rights reserved
I was asked to attend the Raise The Roof La Paz Orphanage Auction Saturday night at Ciudad de los Ninos y Ninas (Boys Town) www.lapazchildrenshome.org It was my pleasure to donate a set of signed novels for the silent auction. My wife and I were happy to be part of a large turnout by the American and Canadian communities. Plus, the tamales and beer were great and the live entertainment
featured singing, folkloric and Arabic dance. Good job, Everyone!
Its good for authors to keep practice with blogs and other writing, and Im no exception. This month I contributed texts to the program articles for the » First Annual Cabo Marine Show, to be held in Cabo San Lucas April 16-18. You’ll find me there if youre in Los Cabos for this high-season closer. But I’m also making good progress with the next set of Parallel Ops chapters. Keeping you updated by Facebook and Twitter. #amwriting The Informants.
While Marty keeps half of the social marketing up, Ive been creating a new blog that hopefully will take less time away from writing my new sreies, Parallel Ops.
Im calling it My Morning Coffee because Im limiting my time for blogging to just that.
And it has allowed me to get back to work on the lastest chapter of The Guardians and still stay in touch with you.
Ive been working hard on the Parallel Ops series, three novels
at a time!
If you follow me on Twitter or follow Marty on FaceBook, you know all about our latest research trip up into the mountains of southern Baja. But thats for Parallel Ops and this site is for Seeds of Civilization. So, you might ask
what Im doing now that Seeds is publishedthe answer is developing individual Fan pages on FaceBook for Tractrix, Tsubute and Triangle. Some of the notes will now appear as tweets on Twitter, too.
These pages could use FANS, so please, stop by and show your support. I promise to do my part with some fresh content.
In January I did some exploring of the neighboring pueblos around La Paz, one of which is the beach town of La Ventana. My wife, son and I went twiceonce to make our acquaintance with the windsurfing capital of Mexico, and then again to watch part of the La Ventana Classic,
a contest in which kiteboarders and wind surfers from Oregon, Mexico and other parts compete for a cash prize of $1,000 each (men & women) for being first across to La Ventana from the island of Cerralvo in the Sea of Cortez. I wrote a front page article for The Baja Citizen with a recap of the event.
Other writing included key updates for my BajaDivers.com website and new content for my blog titled, The Mega Blog which paved the way for the writing of Triangle. I like to refer to it as The science behind the fiction. I hope youll stop by to find out about real underwater discoveries in Bimini and off the coast of Cuba.