Having read your harem books and todays popular harem stories, I prefer yours. Valens legacy was good. In fact, almost all of your books are great. I've read some of the so-called popular harem stuff and it turns my stomach.
You must have been doing something right to make bank on it.
Like you, I grew up in a era where authors wrote interesting stories in multiple genres, and I appreciate your different characters and plotlines. Not a fan of the "paint by numbers" repetitive stories being written today.
I agree with both Mr. Weiss and Ms. Mines, I vastly prefer your style and mix of action and relationships with interesting MC evolution. I wish I could finance your whole creative zeal. Thank you for all of the hours of entertainment that you have shared.
I'd still like to finish Ghost Warrior book 3. I've been saving the chapters until the book is finished without readeing them. sigh
Keep posting too. Fastinating thoughts and issues.
Honest and clear, frankly I agree with you about the Harem stuff and am delighted to hear that PoI is back in your thoughts. For me your Sci Fi is best followed by the 'urban fantasy ' stuff, I think that there is life in the Hammer Commission still and would love more vignettes about Shadow. By the way, glad to hear that the contribution to your lawsuit was helpful. I know that you won (although I'm willing to bet you didn't get any money back) but has it made a difference?
The lawsuit made a huge difference to the legal world of IP rights. It is a landmark legal ruling. That's why the Chief Justice, the Library of Congress, and the Patent office were all involved (though I didn't know about that until a few months after the ruling).
All of the 'KISS' lawsuits against pirates, all of the recent huge wins against pirates, all of those were based on my win.
Now yes, the kid still owes me over $80K, and unfortunately he's got enough political allies in places like Canada, that state courts won't help when I try to reclaim any of that. So I've pretty much given up.
I've been told he's traveling overseas these days, and with his history of abusing women, I suspect he's going to eventually just disappear when he discovers that there's a lot less 'law' over there and his being a former Canadian politician isn't worth squat.
I have enjoyed all of your books I have read under both pens. I will continue to buy whatever you publish. I am really glad I got to read Ghost Warrior 3. I will continue to support on subscribestar, and hope you will consider posting some of you other unpublished works there.
I want to start this out by saying yes I am a huge fan. I love all of the books that you've written under both names. I'm pretty much at the point where I'll buy just about anything that you write. I don't understand the whole thing about people saying there are rules to certain types of books. When you're a writer, you write whatever the hell you want I don't see the point in trying to limit an author. I'm super psyched to hear about a new POI book! I would actually love to read another Ghost Warrior book, and Holy $hit a spaceship bordello book?!? that sounds absolutely freaking amazing! Not only would I buy that book I would be counting down the days till it's released! You keep writing them, I'll keep buying them!
While I am one of the non-fans of Ghost, I have been following pretty much everything else you are publishing as John Van Stry. I am *most* impressed with your productivity. That you are writing stuff you don't plan to publish, just because you want to, is not a surprise. Glad to hear more POI and SOC are in the works.
Your "Every book is pretty much the same plot with just some things changed. THAT’S FINE!!! And I am 100 percent AOK with that." comment is right on. Maybe not the example you had in mind, but it's L.E. Modesitt's work in a two sentences. He's got a formula, and he's sticking to it. And clearly it works for him. But looping back to an earlier article of yours, on pricing. He's got two books coming out soon, and they're being listed at nearly $20, for the Kindle version. I want to read those books, I'm invested in those series, but not that much. Not when I've a TBR pile in Kindle Unlimited that grows faster than I have the time to read it, and even most of the stuff I see that gets rave reviews that isn't on KU is going for $4.99, or less.
POI12? (heaves huge sigh of relief)
Having read your harem books and todays popular harem stories, I prefer yours. Valens legacy was good. In fact, almost all of your books are great. I've read some of the so-called popular harem stuff and it turns my stomach.
You must have been doing something right to make bank on it.
Keep up the good work.
Like you, I grew up in a era where authors wrote interesting stories in multiple genres, and I appreciate your different characters and plotlines. Not a fan of the "paint by numbers" repetitive stories being written today.
I agree with both Mr. Weiss and Ms. Mines, I vastly prefer your style and mix of action and relationships with interesting MC evolution. I wish I could finance your whole creative zeal. Thank you for all of the hours of entertainment that you have shared.
I'd still like to finish Ghost Warrior book 3. I've been saving the chapters until the book is finished without readeing them. sigh
Keep posting too. Fastinating thoughts and issues.
Thanks. And I'll try to wrap up book 3 at some point. I would like to get back to working on it.
Honest and clear, frankly I agree with you about the Harem stuff and am delighted to hear that PoI is back in your thoughts. For me your Sci Fi is best followed by the 'urban fantasy ' stuff, I think that there is life in the Hammer Commission still and would love more vignettes about Shadow. By the way, glad to hear that the contribution to your lawsuit was helpful. I know that you won (although I'm willing to bet you didn't get any money back) but has it made a difference?
The lawsuit made a huge difference to the legal world of IP rights. It is a landmark legal ruling. That's why the Chief Justice, the Library of Congress, and the Patent office were all involved (though I didn't know about that until a few months after the ruling).
All of the 'KISS' lawsuits against pirates, all of the recent huge wins against pirates, all of those were based on my win.
Now yes, the kid still owes me over $80K, and unfortunately he's got enough political allies in places like Canada, that state courts won't help when I try to reclaim any of that. So I've pretty much given up.
I've been told he's traveling overseas these days, and with his history of abusing women, I suspect he's going to eventually just disappear when he discovers that there's a lot less 'law' over there and his being a former Canadian politician isn't worth squat.
I have enjoyed all of your books I have read under both pens. I will continue to buy whatever you publish. I am really glad I got to read Ghost Warrior 3. I will continue to support on subscribestar, and hope you will consider posting some of you other unpublished works there.
I want to start this out by saying yes I am a huge fan. I love all of the books that you've written under both names. I'm pretty much at the point where I'll buy just about anything that you write. I don't understand the whole thing about people saying there are rules to certain types of books. When you're a writer, you write whatever the hell you want I don't see the point in trying to limit an author. I'm super psyched to hear about a new POI book! I would actually love to read another Ghost Warrior book, and Holy $hit a spaceship bordello book?!? that sounds absolutely freaking amazing! Not only would I buy that book I would be counting down the days till it's released! You keep writing them, I'll keep buying them!
While I am one of the non-fans of Ghost, I have been following pretty much everything else you are publishing as John Van Stry. I am *most* impressed with your productivity. That you are writing stuff you don't plan to publish, just because you want to, is not a surprise. Glad to hear more POI and SOC are in the works.
Your "Every book is pretty much the same plot with just some things changed. THAT’S FINE!!! And I am 100 percent AOK with that." comment is right on. Maybe not the example you had in mind, but it's L.E. Modesitt's work in a two sentences. He's got a formula, and he's sticking to it. And clearly it works for him. But looping back to an earlier article of yours, on pricing. He's got two books coming out soon, and they're being listed at nearly $20, for the Kindle version. I want to read those books, I'm invested in those series, but not that much. Not when I've a TBR pile in Kindle Unlimited that grows faster than I have the time to read it, and even most of the stuff I see that gets rave reviews that isn't on KU is going for $4.99, or less.
Somebody needs to send him a link to the post I did on pricing. $20 on kindle is dump. He’d make the same money at $9.99 and not piss people off.
Somebody is giving him bad advice.