Yay, over 2K!!!

It’s Halloween time! The best time of the year, let’s all get drawn in by the hypnotic allure of the undead, pumpkin spice, and endlessly singing "This is Halloween" for the next 11 months. 

So here is my plan. Starting next weekend, I’m going to do one weekly update regarding Samhain lore and history leading up till the special event I’m hosting on 11/5 in Chicagoland set in the Seventh Age world. If you are interested in attending, find me on facebook for a one night LARP. 

Now, in other book news... there is actual news: 

1. I’ve been writing articles for Geek & Sundry for a while now. Mostly focused on gaming, rpging and storytelling. You can find them all located HERE. 
2. The Seventh Age has gotten an offer for an AudioBook! It’s going to be so weird hearing someone else read the lines that I wrote. I’ve got no real details at the moment. But more to come!
3. After watching Voltron the new Animated Show, I’ve decided that I’m perfectly okay with Aliens kidnapping me, knocking me out, and me waking up with white hair, an awesome scar of some kind, and a bad-ass cybernetic arm. 
4. As for my Sequel Dystopia, I’m going to let the funding on that run out I believe at this moment. The campaign page was designed for a contest and I’m just going to chill on that for now and keep writing. 
5. Release date is still 01/17/2017. If you haven’t read some of the sample chapters or picked up a copy... no better time than this month. 

Now, some Samhain News:

It’s celebrated from Sunset of October 31st to Sunrise on November 1st. So you’ve all got to update your trick-or-treating stuff. None of this "in by nighttime nonsense". Claim the night like proper monsters. 

Remember, on this night, it’s because Demons and Faeries roam the wild and the veil of the living and dead is thin. So you leave out food and wine and treats to placate them and leave your house alone. This is also why you dress up, lest you be kidnapped and dragged off into the forests. 

I’ve been seeing a lot of candy, and sometimes some food. But I’m not finding a lot of offerings of wine being left out. Again, for you Chicagoans. I drink Red Wine. 

Until next week!

Update time! So I’ve got some more news and some more artwork for everyone!

It’s been brought to my attention recently that my book is pretty damn Metal and brutal.

I’m okay with this. :) To celebrate this, I’ve got some new artwork from Phil Rood and his favorite character in the book Gabriel DeAngelo. 

I present you with some unnecessary violence!

Happy Labor Day everyone!

Here is an awesome picture by Phil Rood to celebrate a day off work, some tasty demon hearts, and the workers that brought us this holiday!

Greetings! Time for an update! Wizard World 2016 Wrap up!

Last weekend I had my first booth at Wizard World in Chicago, and I’d like to give a thanks to everyone who was a part of that. Particularly BaconMooseComics for allowing me to share half our corner booth. 

If you want to see all our pictures of the amazing cosplay we found and our booth set up, go ahead and click :Here: go ahead and hit "like" on that page if you want. 

In other news, Inkshares has been hard at work figuring out the best date to release the book, and that means things got changed. 

The book’s official release date is now 1/17/17. If there were 17 months in a year, I really would of tried to get it there.. 

Either way, this extra time allows me to conjure up some more conventions, articles, and start writing the sequel, Dystopia. 

Until next week!

Today, with this update, I need your assistance. Fans of the Seventh Age, I need you to rally and click buttons!

There are three buttons we are after:

1. Author Facebook Page: Click Here
   
2. Amazon Author Page: Click Here
3. Seventh Age: Dystopia: Click Here

By clicking "like, or follow," on any of these, it helps a ton in getting off the ground. Feel free to be interactive, ask questions, post things to my walls. Distract me from writing short stories about vampires who hunt and stalk internet trolls for food!

Plus... I’m going to start putting artwork up at all these places where it’s a bit easier to organize. For the sequel: Dystopia. I hear-by promise I shall not spam thee. I will only update either Dawn, or Dystopia once a week, on alternating weeks. You’ll get mail from me, but I dare not send you two messages within the same week, after this week. 

Lastly: I’ve got my next artist piece from The Art of Rachel Perciphone. Here is the Council of Death Lords, leaders of the Unification.

 

Care for a demon heart?

                        I’m just going to open with the final cover for The Seventh Age:

I want to thank all of you, the people who have supported me, in helping pick directions, refine options and taking the time to vote. 

Ashley Marie Witter, the Illustrator, who crammed me into her intensely busy schedule of Squarriors. You can check out more of her artwork and rabid apocalyptic rodents by clicking HERE.

Scott over at Cyantype Covers. They did a fantastic job making different options and helping pull everything together for the final version you see today. My finest metal (\m/ >;;salute goes to the work that they have done. 

Lastly, to Emily, Avalon, and everyone at the joint Girl Friday / Inkshares production team for helping take the very nebulous concept of a cover into something this badass. 

My sincerest thank you to everyone involved,

~Rick Heinz. 

I’ve got a quick update this week for everyone. First news of important dates: 

• I’ll be at Wizard World in Chicago on August 18th thru 21st. You can find updates and follow me on twitter @CrankyBolt. I’ll have signed Advanced Reader Copies to give away, art prints, and preorders ready to go. Plus, a contest will be afoot to "spot the signs of the Illuminati". I’ll have to come up with a better name for that.
  
• The book gets officially published on 11/1/2016. If you are in the Naperville area, that weekend on 11/5/2016 will have events! Either from bookstore launches to a special 1 night Seventh Age live action game. 
• Midwinter Gaming Convention in Milwaukee is the next convention after that. January 19th is the date for that!

Besides dates and places to meet up! What would an update of mine be without pictures?! I bring you the final cover illustration for the Front Cover!

Hey Rick.  Love the content of your last update! I’ve studied a lot of things about the occult.  Many may not know that the seal you used is a representation of the Philosophers Stone.  Some say the formulae for discovering the famed Stone is hidden in the sigil itself.  The first letters spell the word "VITRIOL" something many folk have seen in masonic chambers of reflection as well as some newer movies.  The latin translates to "Visit the interior parts of the earth and by rectification thou shalt find the hidden stone".  Hermeticism is very interesting and tied in with multiple religious systems.

I actually wrote a book that touches on this called Be Ye Therefore Wise as Serpents and it’s available on Amazon (though I recommend the paperback as Amazon mutilated the Kindle version on formatting).  I have a rather interesting theory that Constantine the Great was an initiate of the mystery religions, and how that affected the major religions of the world.  I could part with a copy, if you’d like, and all I might ask in return is an honest review on Amazon.

Let me know.  Thanks!