The Earth Dwellers Release!

It's with excitement and relief and joy to tell you all that The Earth Dwellers, the 7th and final book in the COMBINED Dwellers/Country Sagas is now OUT on Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, and Amazon paperback!!! (other ebook distributors such as iBooks, Kobo, and Sony to follow soon.)

This journey has taken me almost two years, more than 600,000 words, and countless hours of time to complete, but I'd NEVER have made it without all of you by my side. I wrote this series, but it's the readers that made it something special. Thank you all for your incredible support and I hope you enjoy the final chapter in Adele's, Tristan's, Siena's, Dazz's, and all the rest of my characters' story! Here are links to get your copy today!

THE EARTH DWELLERS
Links to Buy The Earth Dwellers
Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, Amazon Print

Click here to add The Earth Dwellers to your Goodreads "To Read" List

And if you haven't started either the Dwellers or the Country Saga, why not start today? Get your copy of each and join the conversation!

THE MOON DWELLERS
Links to Buy The Moon Dwellers
Kindle, Amazon Print

Click here to add The Moon Dwellers to your Goodreads "To Read" List

FIRE COUNTRY
Links to Buy Fire Country
Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, Amazon Print

Click here to add Fire Country to your Goodreads "To Read" List

The Earth Dwellers Synopsis

The Earth Dwellers is the 4th book in BOTH The Dwellers Saga and The Country Saga. The author recommends that BOTH series are read in their entirety before reading this book (The Moon Dwellers, The Star Dwellers, The Sun Dwellers, Fire Country, Ice Country, Water & Storm Country).

Your favorite Dwellers and Country Saga characters come together in this epic seventh book!

As President Borg Lecter threatens to annihilate the Country tribes in order to expand his glass-domed empire, Adele ventures into the belly of the beast. Her only hope of survival is the consolidation of Dwellers and Country power before it’s too late.

Former demagogue President Nailin is eliminated, yet civil unrest infects every alliance. To save Adele, President Tristan faces his greatest challenge yet: unifying unfriendly Dwellers in the Tri-Realms to raise an army against Lecter. Meanwhile, Dazz must convince the Ice Country leaders to march with Siena and the Tri-Tribes on the gates of the Glass City.

The world sits on the edge of a knife. Will Adele, Tristan, Dazz, and Siena defeat Lecter and his army of killers before the Glassies wipe them off the face of the Earth?

THANK YOU!!!
As usual, I have too many people to thank that I can't possibly list them all here, but I have to thank my wife, Adele, for being my biggest supporter and for believing in me even when I don't.

I also want to thank all the readers out there who have taken a chance on an known author and sent the Dwellers and Country books into the Amazon Kindle genre bestseller lists! You all have changed my life in all the best kinds of ways. In particular, the 1,700+ members of my Goodreads Fan Group, which has grown by another 400 since the last book I released! You all are AMAZEBALLS!!

My beta reading team rocked once again, challenging me to make my book WAY better than it would have been. There are THREE EXTRA points of view in the last chapter because of your feedback! And to my Street Team, particularly our fearless leader, Kelly, WOW! Just WOW! You all have made a GINORMOUS difference in the last few months, getting my books out to so many bloggers and new fans. Without you I'd be writing for no one but myself.

A big thank you to Tony Wilson at Winkipop Design for one again creating a remarkably perfect cover for a Dwellers book. The four books together are amazing and I constantly get positive feedback on them. You're an ARTIST!

Finally, to ALL 75 bloggers (biggest blog tour yet!) who are participating in The Earth Dwellers Blog Blast, THANK YOU!! You people are so freaking cool I'm in awe that I even know you. Keep on blogging the way you do!

That's it, I hope you all enjoy final chapter in the Dwellers/Country 7 book saga, The Earth Dwellers. And don't forget to tell your friends all about the series, I'm always looking for some new readers and friends!

HAPPY READING!!

David Estes

How to Read the Dwellers and Country Sagas

As the release of the 7th and final book, The Earth Dwellers, in my combined Dwellers/Country Sagas looms closer, I'm getting tons of questions on how to read the combined series. Do you read all three Dwellers books, and then the Country Saga? Or can you read the Country Saga first, and then the Dwellers series? Or, if you're feeling particularly crazy, can you alternate reading a book in each series until you get to the end?

The Answer: Those are all valid options!

The way it works is that the Dwellers and Country Sagas are sister series, which means that they take place in the same overall world (sort of) and time (mostly), but that the characters, settings, and plotlines are completely different. They're different series, so to speak.

HOWEVER...

At some point THE TWO SERIES COME TOGETHER! That's right, the characters meet, the plots merge, the action of both series becomes one book, called The Earth Dwellers, which comes out on September 5th everywhere ebooks are sold and in print on Amazon.com.

So the short answer is that you can read the books in any order that you want, and they won't spoil each other. There's no real benefit to reading either one of the series first. So just pick the first one that looks interesting, and get reading! And don't stop until you've read all six books in the two series and you're ready for the release of The Earth Dwellers. Trust me, it's going to be epic!!

Here's a full list of the books you need to read to catch up:

 

The Dwellers Saga:

1- The Moon Dwellers

2- The Star Dwellers

3- The Sun Dwellers

 

The Country Saga:

1- Fire Country

2- Ice Country

3- Water & Storm Country

ENJOY and I can't wait to see your reviews of each book on Goodreads and Amazon.com!!!

My Literary Agent Story!

I’ve got HUGE news today, the BIGGEST NEWS yet for my three-year-old writing career. Today, on August 6^th of 2013, I’ve got an agent! *double happy dance with an ill-advised attempt at a breakdancing move*

I am now a client of Andrea Hurst& Associates, an awesome and experienced literary agency that I’ve been stalking…ahem, I mean querying for over two years. Well, all the hard work paid off when I accepted Andrea’s offer of representation TODAY!

Andrea Hurst is an amazing author and incredible literary agent with tons of experience finding publishers for her author clients. She’ll be working with me to expand the audience for the combined Dwellers/Country Sagas (all seven books), developmentally revise the books, and land a publisher to take my career to the next level. So first I just want to say THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU to Andrea for believing in me enough to take a chance on me and my books.

Next, for those interested, I’d love to tell the story of how I landed my first ever literary agent. Here goes…

It all started on a cold and rainy night many years ago…wait, sorry, wrong story. Bad author habit…

No, it started two and half years ago on a sunny day in Sydney, Australia. I’d recently written my first ever YA trilogy and the first book in my Nikki Powergloves children’s series, and I was full of confidence and energy. I was going to be the next bestselling author! No one could stop me!

So I started querying every last YA literary agent I could find. Surely one of them would like my ideas, my writing, my stories……right? Uh, not exactly. The rejections came in swiftly and knee-deep. Each one was like a stab to the gut, leaving me exhausted and frustrated. Those agents wouldn’t even take the time to write out a personalized rejection! They were form letters!

My confidence waned.

Enter Andrea Hurst, who might just be the female version of Clark Kent. Literary agent by day and superhero by night! She agreed to read Nikki Powergloves and provide me with feedback, even if she was unable to offer me representation for my children’s books. She read my book and loved it! We had a Skype call and she said super nice things about my writing style and the raw talent I had that just needed to be honed (like really really honed). She gave me barrels of tips and advice and sent me on my way.

I soaked her advice up like a sponge, and worked on my craft, churning out a new book every couple of months. I ceaselessly queried and watched as the rejections from literary agents and publishers piled up, climbing well over fifty. I received a couple of full manuscript requests only to have them rejected in the final rounds. My skin grew thicker. I should have been frustrated, but I wasn’t…because Andrea said I had talent; she was the only agent to give me the time of day.

I wrote the Dwellers Saga, then the Country Saga, and after months of giving away free books, promoting the heck out of them, and getting a whole lot of generous and selfless support from my growing group of readers, the series started to sell. Like really sell. TheMoon Dwellers began hitting the top ten on many lists of favorite dystopian books and books to read if you like The Hunger Games. Things were about as good as I could expect them to be without an agent. But they were about to get better.

Three things happened that pushed my books to higher highs:

First, a Buzzfeed article was published that listed 15 Series to Read if you Enjoyed The Hunger Games, and guess what? The Dwellers Saga was number 15! The other 14 were awesome bestselling series by big published YA authors. This did wonders for my sales and visibility.

Second, The Moon Dwellers began consistently being listed on the Kindle bestseller lists for YA dystopian, action and adventure, swords and magic, and science fiction books.

Third, Andrea Hurst was contacted by a film production company who was interested in the film option for The Moon Dwellers and who thought she was my literary agent! Of course, she wasn’t; at least, not yet.

Andrea contacted me to tell me about the inquiry and we restarted a two-year-old dialogue about possible representation. I filled her in on everything I’d been doing, my small successes, how I’d grown my social networking platform and Goodreads Fan Group (shout out to the 1,600+ awesome people I chat with every day!), and she was impressed.

What felt like two seconds later, she offered me full representation for my Dwellers and Country Sagas woot woot! Best. Day. Ever. Adele and I celebrated and laughed and hugged and a lot of silliness ensued, and then, when we’d calmed down, we read through the contract and agreed to it! So now, almost three years and more than 1.1 million words later, I’ve got a literary agent!!

I couldn’t be happier having Andrea and her team as my agents. I have no doubt that together we’re going to create something special. Thank you to everyone who has stood by me and supported me as I’ve grown as an author and person. I consider each and every one of you my friends, and I’m so glad to be sharing this journey with you.

I can’t wait to see what the future holds!

David Estes