Hey, happy weekend everyone!

I have an actual update for you on Rise!  I finished the proofread of the manuscript last night a little after midnight my time and sent it back to Girl Friday.  It was a good thing I had that opportunity because I noticed a continuity error that was going to figure large once you start reading Fall.  Needless, to say, I’m very glad to have caught it.  Someone I work with stated the detail I fixed seemed a very minor thing to be focused on.  But, it’s the little details like that I think that matter the most in a grand tale.  Sure, I could have left it and altered the story the rest of the way.  But I couldn’t.  Those details are going to explain a lot when you put them all together later in the series.

So, Rise is back in the production team’s hands for now.  Monday they’ll go over my responses and hopefully start making those changes right off.  Assuming I got it all right, I shouldn’t see Rise again in any form I can touch to alter it.

We’re just over three months from release.  Stay tuned for more news on how you can help make Rise’s release a fireworks show of epic proportions!

Howdy! Howdy! 

I know I’ve been quiet for the last week and it must be killing you to know what I’ve been up to. I’ll come clean, I’ve been moving. That’s right, I picked up and headed out of the proverbial Dodge. In so doing, I managed to digitally strand myself for the last few days. 

After a long day of packing, I didn’t rest. I carried on writing because I knew we needed to collectively find the reason for the strange similarities between historic human figures and the people surrounding Hero Shard. I have several partial chapters, written in broken sentences and incomplete thoughts. 

I would say more but my time is limited. The chapters will be incoming soon! The connection here is unstable... I have to cut this short. We will be seeing more of our heroes soon. Until next time, thanks for reading.

 

It’s been a long time, but I honestly didn’t have much to say beyond "still hammering at a keyboard!" With my pre-order restart date not coming up for a while, I kept writing updates and never posting, feeling guilty about the lack of real content. So this time, I’m writing this as I go and forget thinking ahead.

There are some minor changes to the main Blurred Weaponry content. I uploaded "the version I’m going to send to an editor" for Chapters 1 (both separated scenes) and Chapter 2. Plus I uploaded Chapter 3 and sent it out ahead of time! 

I like the direction of this introduction to the story, as the tragedy at the very start seemed sadly understated in the old manuscript. If you haven’t read that stuff, please do.Tell me what you think, highlight excerpts, and so on. At most I’ll upload two more chapters, especially since Chapter 5 features one of my favorite conversations in the whole book, so I gotta put that out somewhere.

I’ve also been working on tons of extras that I’ll reveal soon. To put some heat under my butt to get it done and stop being lazy about it, I’ll post a small schedule now!

June 17th: Some Artwork!

July 1st: More Artwork!

July 15th: Sending the manuscript to my editor (finally!) Also, new YouTube clip. Also, going to do more work on a prequel novella and my next project, Sinopia Property Management.

August 5th: Either some artwork from a talented artist or a new YouTube clip.

There, now I have to do all that. I’ll also announce a date for the pre-order restart as soon as I can, but my plans include having a lot of money saved up, so that date could go a week ahead or late, and announcing it now would be a hassle. It’s a comin’, though, for sure.

Thanks so much to those that follow, and I promise to be way more involved in paying attention to Inkshares updates and stuff from now on!

-Michael Valdez

PS: And thanks to Amanda Orneck for sending a copy of Shadow of the Owl (click that title to order from Amazon!) as a raffle prize for ordering her Inkshares project Deus Hex Machina. Congrats on the Quill numbers :)