25 Apr 2012, Posted by caburkes in 40 To Go, Butta, Butta worldwide, Coming Soon, DesktopEpics, Meagan Good as Butta', 0 Comments Tagged Butta Worldwide, LOL, Mac Mini

Progressive and Rotating Facebook Covers

With the release of Butta‘:Worldwide rapidly approaching, marketing has begun at least on the Facebook fan pages with what I’m calling progressive covers. This is inspired by an old Back to The Future III poster campaign I saw years back where every few weeks they updated the poster with a little bit more of an image. First it was the horses being pulled into the scene. Then a little bit more of the horses pulling the Delorian until the title was revealed.

The Butta: Worldwide covers start with the tip of a motorcycle. Side note: the reason it’s doing a wheelie is primarily because the way Facebook covers are designed, I can’t remove the headshot profile box in the bottom left corner. LOL…so the wheelie is lifted above the box and turned out to be a nice image to continue with moving forward.

Each week, leading up to the release date, there will be a little bit more of the scene which is taken directly from the sequel.

Each cover will also have a quote from either the first book or the sequel. ‘finally’ is exactly how I feel about it. I came a long way from 2007. I can’t thank Ebony and Neil Phillips enough for starting this brake-less rocket and it’s been an adventure.

Also …

40 To Go stumbled but has a strong following that seems to be waiting. So, to clear the air and any confusion, 40 To Go will be a series of enhanced ebooks for the iPad. Armed with my Mac Mini, iPad and months of HTML5 experience, it’s on. Same rules apply, just different and all the actors you kow and love will still be portraying the characters that they were assigned … just different. Similar to the sample version I posted online, the novel will interject audio and video in sections with clips of animation.

Not motion comic animation.

Animation. Thus the need for slight character redesign, also. The cover for 40 To Go is not progressive, but rotating. Showcaseing every character in the series until the book releases.

Date? Don’t hold me to one, please. LOL … but you know it’s almost there when you hear me talking about recording schedule’s with the actors and we run through all 17 characters in the covers.

First up … Julissa:

17 Mar 2012, Posted by caburkes in Amazon, Butta, Butta worldwide, Random Crap, 0 Comments Tagged Amazon, High School, Kindle Store, Personal Summary

Bragging Rights – Butta’ Amazon Ranking

Did you know …?

• My first book EVER, Butta’ and the Tower of Bling, was written in 2007. It was discontinued in 2009.
• The physical book is currently ranked at #4,574,862 in Books on Amazon for a book no longer in print.
• Butta‘:Worldwide, the next book in the series, was written in 2009 but never published.
• January 2012, I re-issued the first novel as an EBook on Amazon.com for the first time (January 18th 2012) with a new title (Butta‘), new cover and cleaner edit.
• On January 29th 2012, Butta‘ was at it’s lowest rank at #238,091 and never saw it that low again.

On January 31st 2012, Butta‘ did a ONE DAY ONLY Free Promotion on Amazon. By mid-day, Butta‘ was ranked #13 in Thrillers (Free). By the end of the day:

• February 1st 2012, Butta‘ the eBook has ranked consistently between #14,727 and #26,780.
• As of this writing, 5:56pm 3/17/2012 – “This format of “Butta‘” is currently ranked #19,973 out of over one million books in the Kindle Store.”

Personal Summary:

I’m not someone who has a lot of wins to show or brag about. While I did sell a script once in my life, I have no trophies. No diplomas. Did not graduate High School and I can only do one thing without thinking about it, writing/storytelling (and a little bit of animation and film work), and I still can’t get a good job in that field since I don’t have a degree. Tomorrow, on the three-month anniversary of my decision to take my stalled career and make it work; and watching over 100 ebooks sold in 17 days and counting … only doing ONE free day promotion for that particular ebook since January … and the utter failure of my Kickstarter.com attempt last year … I say the following to no one but myself with a hearty pat on my own back:

I FUCKING earned this and I am proud of me.

I’m getting a drink cause my name is Burkes and it’s Irish! Happy St. Patty’s Day!

05 Mar 2012, Posted by caburkes in Butta worldwide, DesktopEpics, 0 Comments Tagged Butta Worldwide, Donna Swan

Butta: Worldwide Release date – Monday May 21st Midnight

I never had a release date for Butta: Worldwide because I wasn’t sure when the editing would be done. I knew May was the cut off, but now I’m sure especially with review copies being dispersed to various locations.

Donna Swan, my brilliant first-reader and truth teller (as she’ll be the first to tell me a story sucks provided I give it to her to read) has informed me she liked it better than the first novel and spent a day yelling at me about characters and why they did this and why they did that and when the third novel was coming out to resolve her anxiety.

So that tells me it’s a winner.

Lot’s of action and thrills. Until then, Butta’: Worldwide sample excerpt can be found on Smashwords

Oh and yes…. Meagan Good is Butta‘ … lol

31 Jan 2012, Posted by caburkes in Butta, Butta worldwide, Smashwords, 0 Comments Tagged Butta Worldwide, LOL

Butta’:Worldwide Sample Chapters

I wanted to give a breakdown of what the heck went on yesterday, but not before I post the availability of the sample chapters of Butta‘: Worldwide while the gettin’ good. LOL. It’ll be out May 2012. One of the few things I can say with 100% certainty because the book is done! I’m just fielding early reviews.

Until then, the sample chapters are available at Smashwords.