Huge shout out to UMBC Comic Con! It was a pleasure to join your passionate community! (You can read the full blog post about the awesome UMBC COMIC CON here!)
UMBC folks this is VERY important:
Many of you awesome UMBC folks have not yet claimed your credits via email and picked up your copy of RUNE. I am able to go to conventions like this (and cover booth/travel costs) due to book sales, so please check your email, claim your credits, and then snag your copy of RUNE OF THE APPRENTICE today! Please don't put it off, it helps me a lot, and allows me to continue to meet awesome people like you at other conventions! THANKS!
As I mentioned, these credits also EXPIRE, so don't wait! Your free copy of RUNE is just a few clicks away! Simply go into your email, "claim" your creds, and then order RUNE (here) for free! EZ Mid, EZ Life! (Yes, that is a Dota2 reference, find me on Twitch here!)
P.S. Below are some SNEAK PEEKS of my new cosplay for Halloween:
I will be in NYC figuring out more details about the super top secret new Convention I have been working on, and wanted to up my cosplay game for the meetings. I'm still working on the full set, and when it is done, it will be AWESOME! Stay tuned for more on Facebook! Also, if you want to hang in NYC for Halloween drop me a line @StoneJamison
Thanks again to everyone for all the support, it means the world to me! (Don't forget to spend those credits! And you can tell your friends they can get credits, too! All they have to do is create an account and follow RUNE OF THE APPRENTICE right here on Inkshares!)
NYCC - What an amazing time! Four full days of AWESOME! Here are some EPIC PICS!
TL;DR
(You can read my FULL blog post of NYCC here, below is just an excerpt!)
I want to give a HUGE shout out to all my “new” New York Comic Con Friends and welcome you to the RUNE OF THE APPRENTICE community! We are all pretty excited for the book to come out, but because it is months away from being in your hands, we are biding our time by playing video games, doing local D.C. / NYC meet ups, and hanging on Twitch, Facebook and Twitter where we talk and enjoy books/ comics/ videogames/ movies and all things related. Most importantly we are super happy to have you new folks join us! In that same vein, if you know of anyone else who loves EPIC Fantasy/Science-Fiction storytelling, ask them to get the book and join us, too—all for free!
YES I SAID EBOOK FOR FREE, because of you (and the epicness of Comic Con) your friends can get an e-book version of RUNE for FREE! Inkshares (my publisher) is really excited to spread the word about RUNE and (FOR A LIMITED TIME, SO HURRY) is still offering promotional credits to new community members via referral. Because of this, people can either get the RUNE e-book for free, or the hard cover for half off! Enjoy the credits while they last though, because word on the street says they will be going away VERY SOON (we are talking days here, people, so hustle!)
To get this SUPER DEEP discount all YOU need to do is share RUNE on FACEBOOK or TWITTER via the Inkshares website (Facebook/twitter/email thumbnail) and then tell your friends to click the link. Once on the Inkshares site, your friends just need to create a new Inkshares account and then click the “follow” button on either RUNE OF THE APPRENTICE or myself, the author Jamison Stone (that's me!) and then wait 10-15 min for the new credits to arrive.
After that, your friends will then have enough credits to be able to get the RUNE e-book for free! (If they want to get an additional $5 in credits then can then click the “recommend on Inkshares” button, too.) Also, once the credits are up, not only can then get the e-book, BUT YOU get $15 in Inkshares credits for referring them and you can spend said credits on another copy of RUNE or another of the great books on Inkshares. For suggestions check out CORA (SF) and BLOOD DAWN (Fantasy) both are great reads!
This is a great opportunity to get some really amazing storytelling at no charge and join a super passionate community, so don't pass it up! The publisher won't be doing this for much longer so HURRY PEOPLE and don't miss out!
ALSO, always feel free to drop me a line in the comments, and come visit on Inkshares. RUNE OF THE APPRENTICE is for you all to enjoy, and just because the book is not out yet, does not mean you can't get your RUNIC fix over at Inkshares, Twitch, Twitter, or Facebook!
Keep in touch with me and our community, not only to hang out and play games in person and via Twitch but also to get access to the insider scoop about new Cons (you will NOT want to miss out on the SECRET CON which is having its soft launch in March, see my full blog posting for more details about how you can win tickets!) Also, Twitch is the best way for us all to hang out because I am horribly addicted to video games, but also because we can actually hang out there via webcam, chat, and actually play games together! Just hit the "follow" button on my Twitch page, and you are good go!
Lastly, if you have extra Inkshares Credits to spend, I suggest taking a look at CORA (SF) and BLOOD DAWN (Fantasy) They are both great reads! Enjoy!
Remember, this was only an excerpt of my FULL blog post of NYCC which you can read HERE! I look forward to hearing from you all on Inkshares, Twitch, Twitter, or Facebook!
See you space cowboys/cowgirls!
Hello Everyone!
I have some great news! RUNE's schedule and publication date has just been finalized! Although there are many deliverables on RUNE's production timeline (publishing and marketing a book is a MASSIVE undertaking), the one readers will be most interested in is:
RUNE OF THE APPRENTICE will be published on November 1st, 2016!
Additional good news is that YOU will be getting your copies before this date AND we will also be able to have special early release copies for New York Comic-Con, too! We don’t know the exact date books will be shipped to you, but I’ll keep you posted!
Even though you will be getting you books before November, I know this is still a long way out. Reading this, I’m sure you are feeling the same emotion I initially felt upon hearing the news: disappointment that RUNE will not be published sooner like originally planned. Despite that initial feeling, as I work more closely with both Inkshares and Girl Friday Productions, and see the tremendous amount of work being put into RUNE, that disappointment has been transformed into appreciation and gratitude. While I know you do not see this hard work first hand, I will do my best to keep you updated on our progress so you can see all we are doing to polish RUNE into printed perfection—which will hopefully help curb your disappointment, even if only a little.
I can go on and on about this and am happy to answer any questions over at @StoneJamison, or down below in the comments, however, I want to keep this update quick so as to not fill up your inbox. Although there are MANY milestones ahead, the next important steps are Cover Design and Developmental Edits!
Cover: I have a call later today where the RUNE team will be solidifying our collective vision for the cover so the designer can begin to move forward with samples for review and selection. There are usually three rounds to this process. The early samples will focus on options of several different directions and the later rounds will polish that vision, bringing it into a finalized physical form. The designer’s previous work is fantastic and I am very excited to see what he produces. I will keep you all updated as we progress!
Developmental Edits: Editing a 500+ page Fantasy/Sci-Fi epic is no small feat. Although RUNE has already had several rounds of professional editing, there is always ways to make a novel of this magnitude more engaging, engrossing, and awe-inspiring! I have been tremendously pleased with the pre- Girl Friday Productions edits, and am now very excited to see their continued polish added to RUNE. The next round of Developmental edits should be done by the end of next month, and then wrapped up by the end of March with copy editing and proofreading to follow in the months to come.
As I said, there are many more milestones after that (I have not even gotten started on marketing!) but for now I’ll end this update. The road to publication is a long one, however, I am so very excited to have you all along for the ride. RUNE OF THE APPRENTICE is going to enliven the hearts and minds of readers across the globe, and it warms MY heart knowing that you all are here to partake in this EPIC journey!