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Vatican Championship Wrestling Campaign is Live!

VCW is live and funding! Head on over there and get yourself a copy, help us reach our goal and get this book produced! Link

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Upcoming Release Schedule

Vatican Championship Wrestling: After a potentially demonic incident at the largest professional wrestling event of the year, the Vatican...

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Social Media Censorship And What It Means For Indie Creators

When I first started out trying to get my book published I created several social media accounts. This wasn't something I wanted to do, a...

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Mailing List is live!

Hey all, Hope you're doing well, I thought I'd update to let you all know that I have a mailing list for readers to get updates on all my...

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Overdue Update, June 2020

It's been a while since I've written one of these, but I thought it would be good to outline just what it is I've been working on these p...

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Now Available

My first book, The Crimson Spark is now available, thank you for all your support! I could write a really long post about how this all ca...

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Paperback available to order!

While the digital launch of The Crimson Spark is this friday, I know a lot of people were hoping to get the physical edition at the same ...

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Review copies are out! File is Uploaded!

Everything is finally done with The Crimson Spark, it's been submitted both to amazon and to the many wonderful people who've accepted re...

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The Crimson Spark (Preview)

The ship rocked back and forth in the churning sea, carried up one wave and hurled down upon another, creating a sickening rhythm even in...

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What indie authors can learn from indie comics

There's been a recent explosion in indie comics, and I don't mean comics from non-Marvel or DC publishers. I mean actually independently ...

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Regression

It's a term we used back when I was a teacher. The idea is that at the end of the year, students who struggle with change will start to r...

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We're in the Endgame now

With a date placed on the release of Spark and pre-orders opened for the ebook, things have never felt more real. It's at this point wher...

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Logo

Beautiful new logo for the website designed by Raven Monroe, please go give her a follow @raven_m_illus on twitter. Very talented and a d...

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Blurble Blurble

Writing a blurb to summarize your novel is very tricky, especially when you know it's going to be on the back of every single copy. The r...

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The Crank Philosophy

First drafts are bad. Every single one of them. It's a difficult thing to accept when you're finishing a polished manuscript. You think y...

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Map Reveal

Finally got the map for The Crimson Spark back from the incredibly talented https://thefantasymapsforge.pb.design/ How this is going to w...

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Striking the balance

Today was tricky. For the first time in ages I was caught up with my edits. I figured I'd get some more work done in on The Opal Embers, ...

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The Crimson Spark

The Crimson Spark is the first in a currently nameless series of YA Novels set in The Kengean Archipelago. A mysterious and fragmented la...

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Well here we are

Hello traveler. Welcome to my website. Here I share info on my books, the writing process and more. My name is Will Hastings and my first...

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