Canister X – A.P. FuchsWriter, Artist, Creator
General announcements regarding A.P. Fuchs and his books and comics.
Machine Month Ends Today
I’m pleased to report that Machine Month comes to a close today. We’ve been logging major hours at the day job plus doing the creative work and keeping you entertained throughout the week here on this blog and elsewhere.
I’m tired.
Four-day weekend starting tomorrow. I plan to recharge and get a certain book out to you.
I have a plan.
Realm of Heroes and Monsters: Story Time with A.P. Fuchs Podcast Season One Finale Tomorrow!
Join me tomorrow morning for the Season One Finale of the Realm of Heroes and Monsters: Story Time with A.P. Fuchs podcast!
We’ve show, we’ve got not one but TWO stories, and more!
30 episodes complete after the finale airs. The plan is we’ll take a month break then come back with Season Two for more stories and a new, simple format. Easy listening, and easy viewing if you did the watch/listen version on YouTube.
Where can you tune in? Well, right here at the following:
See you there!
Winnipeg Comiccon 2024 Appearance
Winnipeg Comiccon 2024 Appearance
If you’re a reader of my newsletter you’ll know that I’m booked to table in Artist Alley at the Winnipeg Comiccon on October 25 to 27, 2024 at the RBC Convention Centre downtown. It’s a huge show and I’m excited to take a part in it after taking some breathing room from doing shows.
I also have a couple other conventions I’d like to lock down for this year but am still investigating. Some local book signings would be nice, too, but one thing at a time.
In the mean time, yeah, Winnipeg Comiccon 2024 appearance this fall.
See you there!
The Canister X Transmission: TinyLetter Archive About to be Gone
The Canister X Transmission: TinyLetter Archive About to be Gone
As you know, we had to change newsletter services about a month or so back since MailChimp decided to pull the plug on TinyLetter. This is the original blog post.
MailChimp sent out a reminder email the other day to everyone using the TinyLetter service that the archive and accessibility to one’s account is going up in flames at the end of February 2024 so a person had best get going on exporting their reader list otherwise you’d have to build from the ground-up again. Fortunately, we already took care of our newsletter problem and if you’d like to join us, you can do so here.
As for THE CANISTER X TRANSMISSION TinyLetter archive, this will only be avilable until the end of next month so if you’d like to read as many issues as you want (except for the past five or six newsletters as they were sent via MailerLite), you need to do so before then and can go here to read them. Enjoy.
Onward.
– APF
Hotwheels Twitter / X Video Feed
Hotwheels Twitter / X Video Feed
I started a kind of Twitter/X channel that focuses on my hotwheels shorts and reels. You get a video every hour on the hour from 6AM to 6PM CST, daily. It’s a bit of a social media experiment that could lead to other efforts marketing my books and comics. Experimenting is good. Remember the rule: Keep what works, discard what doesn’t.
I hope you join this new Hotwheels Twitter / X Video Feed and follow along. You can also subscribe to regular Hotwheels shorts and reels directly on my YouTube channel.
We’re gonna cover a lot of cars.
Join us. Thousands there already.
Conventions and Book Signings 2024
Conventions and Book Signings 2024
Things are already underway in terms of 2024’s event schedule. Winnipeg Comic Con is on the list and I’m going to look into FanQuest. As well, plans are slowly in motion for an out-of-town convention in Saskatchewan. I need to consult with my SK creators as to what show(s) they’re doing and which would be the best one to table at.
I might attempt a couple local book signings at the old bookshop but those won’t be for a bit yet. It’s been a long while since I signed at a bookstore.
Announcements will be made as things are locked down. So right we’re in the planning stages for conventions and book signings 2024.
Confirmed events will be listed here.
Stay tuned.
Realm of Heroes and Monsters YouTube Playlist Index
Realm of Heroes and Monsters YouTube Playlist Index
As you might have guessed–because I’ve been blatantly obvious–I spent a good chunk of 2023 beefing up my YouTube channel in an effort to 1) Play in another medium 2) Put some eyeballs on my books and comics 3) Entertain or inform you as best as I am able.
We did not bad and had growing stats week by week. Sure, there were some dips in the analytics but you can’t hit the ball out of the park every time.
Below is a newly-curated list of my playlists on YouTube. It’d be really great if you subscribed to one that strikes your fancy. Part of the goal with this whole YouTube thing is to use it as a funding channel–which costs my viewers nothing other than 2 seconds to click subscribe–so I can more easily bring you more books and comics and other entertainment. If you haven’t already subscribed to the channel, please do so. It really does help out an independent creator like me make ends meet.
Here are the playlists on my channel in no particular order as we embark into 2024.
Enjoy!
Realm of Heroes and Monsters YouTube Playlist Index:
A.P. Fuchs – vLog Shorts and Reels
Collectibles Shorts and Reels Master Playlist
Action Figure Shorts and Reels
Funny Videos, Goofiness, and Nonsense
Collections and Collectibles Videos Master Playlist
REALM OF HEROES AND MONSTERS: STORY TIME with A.P. FUCHS Season 1
Superman Collectible Shorts and Reels
A.P. Fuchs Book and Comic Spotlight Series
Hot Wheels Batman Batmobile Playlist
Unboxings – Canister X Mailbag
A.P. Fuchs’s Books, Art, and Comics
A.P. Fuchs Cartoons and Animation
Shorts and Reels Compilation Videos
A.P. Fuchs Elsewhere on YouTube
Thank you for tuning in. Lots of content available via the above playlists and lots more to come so stay tuned!
Peace.
– APF
2024 Broad-and-Loose Publishing Plans
2024 Broad-and-Loose Publishing Plans
If you’ve read my newsletter, it was revealed that in terms of publishing focus regarding 2024, my current plan is to first see 2023 through to the end in terms of content releases and year-end fiscal wrap-up. In short, do some fun stuff and conduct some actions on the business side of things so come midnight, December 31st, 2023 will be done business-wise. So that’s where my headspace is at: 2023 see-through then, in my mind’s eye, a division line then on the other side of that line, 2024.
2024 is currently planned publication-wise in broad blocks.
Here’s where the headspace and planning is at as of this writing:
Fiction:
Late January/early February – AXIOM-MAN/CRIMSON CLOAK: SCARLET SYNERGY teamup novella release.
Approx. June/July – AXIOM-MAN: BATTLE OF POWER TRILOGY, the final arc within the series that wraps up the first act of the overall AXIOM-MAN SAGA. These books are created back-to-back with a planned three-part cover image so when you put the books in a row, you get a full, cool image that compliments the story. At the same time, each cover of the three-part image will stand on its own.
Non-fiction:
March – CAUGHT IN BLACK HEADLIGHTS
Late April or May – THE CANISTER X TRANSMISSION: THE VERY LONG YEAR SIX
The following titles are either done or nearing completion so their specific release windows aren’t known until I analyze where each project is at and then can time it from there.
CANADIAN SCRIBBLER: COLLECTED LETTERS OF AN UNDERGROUND WRITER Vol. 2
GETTING DOWN AND DIGITAL: HOW TO SELF-PUBLISH YOUR BOOK 2nd Edition (updated and revised since the 1st edition’s info has become stale-dated over the years)
Comics:
Fall 2024 – FREDRIKUS Nos. 1 and 2 in print and eComic
Regarding the above non-fiction, and since my focus will be 90% on fiction, the above non-fiction titles are presently “floater titles” in my head therefore to be released/peppered throughout the year. If it turns out my blocked-out timing is off or life happens in a way that legitimately alters the above plans, then all of the above non-fiction releases are subject to change release-wise, with perhaps a title or two saved for 2025.
In short, fiction first, non-fiction second, the fiction releases being the priority.
Since I’m such a planner-aheader, and can only think in so much detail about said ahead plans, as of right now, the loose release block schedule above is the best I can offer at this time. Timing and more concrete info will be announced once things begin to lock down.
Lastly, the fiction focus for 2024 is superhero stuff. My last couple releases (ZOMTROPOLIS: A RECORD OF LIFE IN A DEAD CITY and GIGANTI-GATOR DEATH MACHINE: TRIPLE FEATURE) have been monsters so we’re getting back into the heroes side of this whole REALM OF HEROES AND MONSTERS thing.
There may or may night be a couple of surprises. I have something quick planned but it involves another person and in this game, when it comes to working with others, certain allowances need to be made because sometimes things happen beyond your control and you just have to wait it out so no official announcement or projection regarding this possible project(s) until things are more solidified.
2024 should be a good year.
Self-publishing: Playing the Long Game
Self-publishing: Playing the Long Game
2023 has been about me making broadstroke creation moves, playing the long game the key component behind each stroke.
There is a reason I’ve been regularly posting videos to this site despite it being about a writer/artist amlnd books and comics.
There’s a reason behind setting myself up and creating content for various platforms.
There is a reason behind why I constructed Patreon 2.0 as I did.
The list goes on.
What you’ve been seeing on this site over the past year are groundwork foundation-laying moves that will aid 2024. You can’t build a house on sand. You need concrete.
This is PROJECT REBUILD 2.0 and it’s working.
Every action I take, and as I’ve mention in my newsletter, are meant to help Future Me along with Future Works which, in turn, help Future You, dear reader.
A lot of PROJECT REBUILD 1.0 was more theory-based and planning-based versus actual execution of the theory. PROJECT REBUILD 2.0 has been the execution of 1.0.
As I state in the below video, there is method to the madness.
2024 is looking to be a fairly big year self-publishing-wise. Lots of titles, so at present I’m mentally mapping out the year in terms of how to release everything and when.
But that’s 2024 and we’re not there yet.
2023 will continue, and finish, as it has been thus far.
A new content schedule will be created for 2024, but as of now, this schedule will remain.
Thanks for tuning in this year.
More to come.
Peace.
– APF
Goodbye TinyLetter; Hello MailerLite
Goodbye TinyLetter; Hello MailerLite
Well, MailChimp pulled the plug on TinyLetter, the newsletter engine I’ve using to send THE CANISTER X TRANSMISSION for about eight years. It was a great platform because it had a simple and direct, user-friendly interface and was perfect for a text-based newsletter like mine. But, alas, all good things must come to an end, I suppose, so thanks to fellow author Bobby Nash, he turned me on to MailerLite and from there I’ll be able to continue to send out new issues of the newsletter week after week. This change, of course, will involve some link adjusting and some web design stuff since all my sites have the TinyLetter subscribe box.
Either way, we now have a new provider and there should be no interupption in service.
You’ll also receive a free thriller novelette upon subscribing. Goes out Saturdays.
Goodbye, Tinyletter. Thank you for your service.
If you’d like to be a part of THE CANISTER X TRANSMISSION while I finish getting things all set up, please email me and I’ll add you to the subscriber list. You can also use the form above. The email-me option is there in case of glitches.
Thanks.
– APF
