Nov 24, 2018
Dear readers,
In 2016 more than 500 of you followed my book Blood Dawn. I left the Inkshares platform and continued to work on this book under a different publishing arrangement.
This has now led to the publication of the first part of Blood Dawn, a novel called A Thousand Roads. After more than 2 years of production, 5 editors, and 7 drafts, it is now available as an ebook for early readers. The print book will be out in January, including maps and custom interior illustrations.
Note that I am not funding anything through Inkshares -- this is just a courtesy update for Blood Dawn fans since I did promise to keep you posted when the story eventually was ready for publication.
Here is the blurb, including buy links below. Please share!
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Azzadul, the god-king, the Lord of Light revered by many. When the darkness corrupted him, he became the Dark Lord, feared the world over. His magic, once a gateway to immortality for his people, delved instead into horrors as he sought ever deeper levels of mastery. Children were stolen from their beds, coveted for his blood-rites. When he vanished, it all ended, and the people of the world tried to forget, to move on…
Jak Fuller has always wanted a home. An orphan born ten years after Azzadul’s disappearance, he has wandered far and wide, trying to forget the memory of a burning woman. When he comes to Fort Lasthall, on the outskirts of the Dark Lord’s former kingdom, he hopes to finally settle into a peaceful life. Instead, he finds himself unnaturally compelled by a dark, terrible voice, a voice that knows him, calls to him. A sense of destiny that fills him with fear.
New powers are rising in the dark places of the world. A master of fire-rites called Talamus the Red, arch-foe of Azzadul, seeks to enslave the world with a magic he has been developing for the many centuries of his life. Ready at last, there is only one weakness in his plan, an obstacle he is determined to remove: a boy, bound to an old magic that just might resurrect the power of Azzadul.
The very power bound to Jak, before he was even born…
A Thousand Roads is the beginning of a grand fantasy epic told in the tradition of my favorite fantasy authors – J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Jordan, and George R.R. Martin – think Game of Thrones set in a more modern time with a fair helping of magic and Tolkien-esque myth-building. Originally known on Inkshares as Blood Dawn, back in 2015-2016, A Thousand Roads is the first part of the story to emerge from the revisions.
It is now available as an ebook:
Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Roads-John-Robin-ebook/dp/B07G5PSXZV
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-thousand-roads-john-robin/1127355539
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-thousand-roads-1
iBooks: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/a-thousand-roads/id1305228059
Print book will be available in January. I will update you at that time.