Log Me Tender is here. (With pictures!)

Hello hello,

Log Me Tender is out, and I ordered myself some paper versions.

This is the most wonderful time to be alive in the history of humanity. When I first learned about the existence of print-on-demand, it felt like the first time I learned that I live in a country where indie publishing is as easy as the click of a few buttons—which means that I felt as if someone had rewritten the rules of physics in my favor. A new continent had risen from the ocean, and I had a passport just because.

Amazon has its problems, but just look at these things. They print these things one copy at a time. No wasted paper, no wasted space for storage, just utter simplicity.

Also, Vellum. It’s a tool that lets me export my book files in various digital formats, including various-sized PDFs. As Wynn Ray, I’m doing…

…with the click of a few buttons.

Oh, and the EPUB version, of course. Those are available at more stores…

…as well as public libraries through Overdrive, Bibliotheca, Baker & Taylor, and BorrowBox. Please ask your librarian for details.

Anyway, I got Vellum more than five years ago. I paid a one-time fee. It’s one of the best investments I’ve ever made. Without elegant technology like Vellum and POD, I might have kept my cushy corporate job but I would’ve died an early death. I would’ve been one of the walking dead, because I just would not have been telling stories in any shape or form. So, I thank the sweet fairies above that I do live in this era, that I have this thing called the internet, and that I choose to know, This is the most wonderful time to be alive.

Also, I would like to thank K.P. for ARC reviewing Log Me Tender. Oh my Gawsh, those five stars look so pretty! For Her Ears Only launched with one review and it’s doing fine, so I think Log Me Tender will also do fine.

Relative to zero, any positive number explodes to infinity. From nothing to one, the multiplier has no limit. Therefore, K.P., you are the explosion to infinity and the limitlessness!

And it’s just very nice that I can run ads and one of the creatives has a five-star review quote:

Yay! And from these ads and other things I do, Log Me Tender will do just fine.

The most important thing will be that I keep writing under this name. I am cautiously optimistic that the current WIP will survive. I will have a better idea in a month or so. 

For comparison, FHEO is 75,000 words long. LMT is 100,000 words long. I am 25,000 words into the current WIP. The thing is that I have, many times, abandoned projects where I was 50,000 words in.

50,000 words is when I really want a story to be at its midpoint. But sometimes, a story does not do that. At 50,000 words, sometimes it just keeps expanding like crazy. And I don’t write in series, so I know I’m not going to break up the book into multiple books. Series writing is one of the things I’ve tried under my previous pen name because “everyone does it.” Well, I tried to be everyone and did not like it. The best I could do was write separate stories in a connected universe. (I like those stories, but only because I ended up not doing what everyone supposedly does. 😂)

I think I don’t like writing in series, partly because I do not read in series. Basically, I write what I read. I am my first reader, inevitably.

Anyway, so, Log Me Tender is out in the world now. This writer is very happy that it was born into a world of limitless choices. That’s very on theme with Log Me Tender. Grab the book, if you like the combination of creativity, identity, and a little bit of horror. And I hope you enjoy it.

In the meantime, I shall keep doing my best to cast Wynn Ray’s web across the world.

Cheers,
Wynn