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Coming this May: Divided We Fall

Published by Adam on March 22, 2014

Okay, so a lot has been happening behind the scenes on my new novel, Divided We Fall.

But let’s start with the release date: May 10, 2014. As in, less than two months from now. Get hyped.

What’s that? How should you get hyped? Well, a good place to start might be the brand-spanking-new website for the novel! If you didn’t already click the link above, here it is again: www.wethedivided.com.

Preorders for the eBook will open soon at select online book stores including Apple iTunes, Barnes & Noble Nook and Kobo. On release day, you’ll be able to buy the paperback and eBook from Amazon.

For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, let me take a step back. Divided We Fall is a dystopian love story about surveillance. An elite agent of the Guard finds out that her fiancé has become an Underground revolutionary and tries to win him back. Complications ensue.

It’s also a sequel to my first novel, We, The Watched. Should you read We, The Watched before Divided We Fall? Well, of course you should, but you don’t have to. I’ve written the new book so you won’t get lost without reading the first. You will gain a more full experience reading both, but really, I don’t mind about the order.

A sneak peak at Chapter One of Divided We Fall.

Anyway, we’re almost there, people. The cover and book layout is complete for both the eBook and the paperback. I’ll soon be getting the paperback proof in the mail (UPDATE: It’s here! See above photo) and will just have to do a check to make sure everything looks all right. Then it’s just a matter of getting it into the stores!

One more thing! Remember that time I invited you to submit pictures of surveillance cameras to my Facebook page? Well, I’ve just moved all of that to Tumblr, which I think is a far more effective place for that kind of thing. So, please follow my Tumblr page and submit your own pics!

Keep your eyes on this blog for more updates on Divided We Fall. Between now and release day I should have a fun surprise for you…

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Revealed: Divided We Fall cover

Published by Adam on February 11, 2014

It’s here! The cover for my new novel, Divided We Fall, coming this spring!

Divided We Fall is the sequel to We, The Watched. The manuscript was a quarter-finalist in last year’s Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards and received a great review by Publishers Weekly.

Belinda Pepper, who designed the cover for We, The Watched, has returned to do Divided We Fall with brilliant results! Please let me know what you think in the comments.

Divided We Fall by Adam Bender. Coming this spring.

Quick status update: With the cover finished and the book fully edited, we’re nearly there! I’ve still got to get the interior text formatted for the print and eBook versions. Then it’s pretty much just a matter of clicking “Publish.” Keep your eye on this blog for more updates!

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Watched and Printed

Published by Adam on August 13, 2013

It's real! It's in my hands! — It’s real! It’s in my hands!

The day has finally arrived — my first novel We, The Watched is now available as a paperback!

It’s had a long history. After working on the novel during college, I self-released We, The Watched on my website chapter by chapter.

Later, I found out about Smashwords, an e-publishing platform that let me sell the book through a variety of popular eBook stores includes Barnes & Noble, Apple and Sony. After about a year, I added We, The Watched to the Amazon Kindle store.

I avoided print for years, not because I was on a crusade for eBooks or anything, but because I knew there was a lot more formatting and appearance details to consider.

Finally, this year, I decided to go ahead and pay a few professionals to help me with that. It turned out not to be as expensive as I thought, and the result is amazing! Much thanks to Belinda Pepper for the cover design and Lis Sowerbutts for interior formatting.

But don’t take my word for it, as LeVar Burton would say. Buy a copy for yourself at Amazon.com for $9.99 (Amazon might even sell it to you for less) or Barnes & Noble. If you’re more of an eBook person, you can still of course grab the digital version for $2.99 on Kindle, Smashwords and other popular eBook stores.

If you’re looking to get even more hyped up about the paperback release, check out my official press release announcing the print version right here.

Brilliant new cover for We, The Watched

Published by Adam on July 10, 2013

I’ve got a pretty exciting update. We, The Watched is getting a brand new cover. And this time it’s professional.

The new cover was designed by Belinda Pepper over at Red Swallow Design. The basic design is a modification of the previous cover, but instead of the CCTV camera, it features the fire-eyed graffiti tag of the secret rebel organization known as the Underground.

For those of you keeping track, this is now the third cover for We, The Watched since it was first published a few years ago. However, the more important thing to remember is that it’s the coolest. By far.

“But that’s not all!”

There was a very important reason for designing a new cover: We, The Watched is finally getting a print version! This freshly revised edition will be sold through CreateSpace and available on Amazon from the start. There’s still a little more work to do before it’s up for sale (these things take time), but I’m shooting to have it ready for purchase in the next several weeks. Stay tuned to this blog for the announcement.

But don’t worry, eBook fans, I have not forgotten you. I have also gone ahead and updated the eBook version to include the new cover, more eye-catching formatting and minor revisions made for the print edition. You can get the Kindle version on Amazon or the ePub version (for all other eReaders) on Smashwords right now!

The latest eBook will be rolling out to Apple, Sony, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers over the next few weeks. If you have already purchased We, The Watched online, depending on the store you should be able to download the new version for free (if not, please contact me).

Watched in the real world

Published by Adam on June 12, 2013

The current debate over the National Security Agency’s surveillance program, PRISM, highlights a great conundrum for citizens of any country: How much personal privacy should one give up in exchange for better national security?

When I wrote my novel We, The Watched and its upcoming sequel Divided We Fall, I imagined a dystopian nation in which the government had used national security as an excuse to take all privacy rights from the people. That’s not the case today, but it’s one possible outcome if the balance swings too far in one direction.

With every call, social media update or credit card transaction, people leave behind a long trail of data that can potentially be stored and analyzed by businesses and the government. The digitization of video and an increasing number of surveillance cameras potentially adds even more data to mix.

Evolving tools for big data analysis provide an ability to parse and make sense of all this information like never before. This technology can be used for good and keep people safe, but like any great power it can be abused without the right privacy checks in place.

Tag: dystopian

Coming this May: Divided We Fall

Revealed: Divided We Fall cover

Watched and Printed

Brilliant new cover for We, The Watched

Watched in the real world

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