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New Release: Final Frontier

Oct 10, 2012

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in aliens, indie author, novels, science fiction

Final Frontier is the sequel to the novel I published last year, New Frontier. Currently available for $2.99 on Kindle(ASIN: B009ORP5U0), Smashwords, Nook, and Kobo. Also, Times of Trouble is currently going for $.99 on Kindle (ASIN:B0075CNFFI) (but is available in paperback and on other e-book platforms), and Out of Time, my time travel novel is…

Sales for the year so far

Jun 1, 2012

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Cliff Ball

in books, christian fiction, indie author, novels, Promotion, science fiction, self publishing, writing

Now that it’s June, here are my sales numbers for the year so far, from regular sales to when one of my novels was in KDP Select to free giveaways. These are all from mostly just promoting online on Twitter, Facebook, and a bunch of message boards. The novels are listed in order of publication,…

New Frontier, new novel coming in early 2012

Dec 15, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in books, indie author, novels, science fiction, self publishing, writing

I’m currently working on the last couple of chapters of my new speculative fiction novel, which I call New Frontier. I’m expecting to be done sometime between the end of December to the end of January, barring unforseen circumstances of course. The story originally started off with a prologue with the whole speech given by…

My sales for year so far

Sep 21, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in books, indie author, novels, science fiction, self publishing, writing

When I started self-publishing in 2008, I didn’t really have any kind of goals on how big of a number I wanted to reach. When I hit 100 sold by the end of 2009 without any promoting except for Facebook, I thought that was cool. When I managed to get a little over 500 sold…

Voyager and the Aliens FREE short story

Sep 15, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in indie author, science fiction, writing

My $.99 ebook sale.

Aug 23, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in aliens, Area 51, books, indie author, novels, science fiction, self publishing, writing

Until September 19th, all four of my novels in e-book format are on sale for $.99 each. THE USURPER: a political thriller Gary Jackson is raised to hate. Hate the United States, its people, and everything they have ever stood for. His mission is to destroy the country from within, allying himself with the worst…

#SampleSunday-Shattered Earth excerpt

Feb 26, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in indie author, novels, science fiction, writing

For Sample Sunday, this is an excerpt from Shattered Earth, one of my science fiction novels. Once you read the excerpt, buy links are at the end, or click on the picture to take you to Smashwords for all e-book formats. Chapter Five Around this period, two very rich Terran adventurers had decided to hitch…

Chapter 1-Out of Time-SampleSunday

Jan 8, 2011

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Cliff Ball

in science fiction, writing

This is the first half of Chapter 1 in my time travel novella, Out of Time. Follow the link to take you to the buy links for paperback and ebook. They had to escape from this period in time. The people they were visiting in the 1600’s definitely thought they were witches, and the spawn…

Announcing Shattered Earth, a science fiction novel

Oct 28, 2010

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Cliff Ball

in science fiction

Shattered Earth is my fourth novel. What it’s about: Advanced humans, called Terrans, leave Earth when its threatened by a massive meteor. The remaining humans on Earth fall back into primitiveness. The advanced humans, and a group of aliens, the Ragnor, involve Earth in an interstellar war. Thousands of years later, the humans of Earth…

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