Orders, Faoii! Listen up!

To my Sweet Harvest faithful, I do apologize for the lack of recent updates.  I began playing with a scene for book five in the Vow Unbroken series (book one, A Vow Unbroken, is presently in the process of becoming print) and became a little obsessed with the twin chapters.  This Friday, however, I should have another chapter up and perhaps I may begin the process of hard editing for inconsistent or unconvincing scenes and such.

My background does not include much exposure to law enforcement practices so I’ll likely be limiting these to a large degree.  If anyone has specific things they expect to see at a precinct, even a strange one from a reality with were-animals (thiriothropes) running amok, please give me a heads up.  If this is not something fun for y’all, don’t tax yourselves.  This is meant to be just for fun, and I’ll have a better post in the future-times with little blurbs about all y’all.

In the meantime, I wish all a safe and wonderful bit of adventure, something to bring a sparkle to the eye. 

Sincerely and joyously,

Kendra Namednil (Lindemann)

Witherfist is now in the Geek & Sundry contest top 10. This is a huge milestone, as it’s the first time since the beginning of the contest back in August that the book has broken into the top 10.  In a contest with over 380 entrants, it’s a real honour to be up there and in the company of so many other brilliant authors and their books.

How did this happen? Over this past weekend, Inkshares syndicates - groups of like-minded readers who band together to support books - began choosing their monthly picks. Witherfist was fortunate enough to be nominated and chosen by the members of the ’Break the Bechdel’ syndicate, whose support added a whopping 32 new preorders to the preorder total. A massive thank you goes to Tahani Nelson, author of The Last Faoii, for putting Witherfist forward and for all of the syndicate members who voted to make this possible.

What does that mean?  If you visit the contest page, you’ll  now see the Witherfist cover listed along with the rest of the top 10 entries. This will give the book extra visibility to contest visitors and, should it be fortunate enough to stay in the top 10, this ranking will remain frozen in place once the contest ends on November 1st.

Does this mean Witherfist will be published?  It certainly helps towards that goal! We are now 50% of the way to the 250 copies needed for publication and being in the top 10 puts Witherfist one step closer to the top 3 (who are all guaranteed a full publishing deal). Although the Geek & Sundry contest ends at the beginning of next month, Witherfist has until December 31st to reach the big 250.

We’re now halfway there. 

We can do this.

~ Jenny

The Skyfolk of Empyrea were believed to be one of the exiled tribes of Adam. They came to the realm of Tír na nÓg during the month of the Willow in the year, 3097 B.C.E. Very little is known about where the Empyrean Exiles came from, but there are rumors that they hail from the Realm of Tír nam Beo, the Land of the Living. 

The Skyfolk descended from the heavens in great flaming ships. Their zealotry is known throughout the realm, although little is known about their way of life within the walls of their city erected in the neck of the Great Expanse. For ninety-five years the Empyrean people have lived in isolation. They bore strange markings across all of their body, tattoos that some in the realm of Tír na nÓg believe to be the words of Adam’s followers in the First Age. Over the past twenty years, there have been a number of reports of deserters who have abandoned the Articles of Conviction in defiance of the Ensí Ubara Tutu and his iron rule.

Hello Readers, Followers, and Lurkers!

Quick update today: Christopher Lee (author of The Lore of the Aos Sí) made a book trailer for Fae Child! It is complete, and here it is (you can also view it on the Fae Child main page):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MDVWv88J4w

I just love it. Thank you again, Christopher! As a reminder, he is running a promotion where if you preorder his book and review/recommend it he will make you a book trailer. If you’re in need of some fancy multimedia to help promote your book you should jump on it!

~ Jane-Holly

We’ve passed into the double digits! As of right now, we’re at 97 orders to go. We’ve almost caught up to where we were before we lost all the orders. Keep sharing and spreading the word. The time for the final push is here!

Also, I absolutely couldn’t wait to share this: Kaytalin Platt, author of The Living God, has made this amazing Tantalus Depths poster! Feel free to share it anywhere.

 

The Mermen, The House of the Spilling Seas, hang their banner with the House of Starlight. Commonly called the Mere Folk, Mermen, or Salters. The Mermen hail from The Sea of Mere. Though the seat of their power resides in Formene, the Mermen themselves live in The Castle at the End of the World.They are led by the MerKing Enki who pays tribute to King Dagda Starlight. The MerFolk are an aggressive people, who patrol the open oceans. They are a capricious, wild people whose ferocity far supersedes the other folk. The MerFolk were born of the waves to cleanse the sin of the world. The Sigil of the Spilling Seas is a cascading waterfall.

The Merefolk are one of shifting races of Tír na nÓg. Although they can take human form, the Merefolk prefer their beast form. They take the form of their beast when in the water and revert only to human form when taking to the land.

Orders, Faoii! Listen up!

We’re getting close, Faoii. We’re only 40 or so pre-orders away from Quill and select publication. If nothing else, we can earn that victory.

It’s a little more sobering to realize that we’re 100 unique readers away from the top 3 in the Geek and Sundry contest. That hill is more challenging-- but I think we can make it, too. I know I keep telling you that I want our banner on that hill-- but it’s more than that. I want to be able to put The Last Faoii in the hands of girls across the nation. I want to give them a heroine that’s worthy of being emulated-- who’s more than a pretty face looking for a husband. Who’s strong and fierce and wearing armor that covers all of her vital organs. I want young LGBT people to have someone whose main characteristics isn’t that they’re LGBT. Kaiya is a warrior, a woman, a faoii-- she’s more than "just" a lesbian, and I want people to be okay with that.  And I think a lot of you do, too.

Prove it. Get this book out there, to as many people as you can. I want to win that contest because I want Kaiya to help us change the face of fantasy literature and heroines. We can do that. We are faoii.

-Faoii Tahani

Seismic Girls has reached 5% of its pre-order goal. To celebrate, I added Chapter Three, wherein we meet Zed, a tech wiz with a (very) old soul. Thanks for your support, and enjoy!

FROM THE BLOG DIARY OF EMILY HUNTER

Entry #9: August 10, 2013

In an effort to continue this mental purging, I’m going to write my entry today instead of next week.

So I didn’t hurt Dr. Harper’s feelings saying that I missed Dr. Winchcombe.  She actually suggested I talk more about him.  I’m not sure how much I can say, or how much I want to say, but I’ll let you know he was awesome.  My parents disagree, but they don’t really know him.  Plus they’re quick to blame what happened on him, and his inability to "fix" me.  It’s not his fault.

I started seeing Dr. Emil Winchcombe when I was a teenager.  Like 15 I think.  It was mandatory that I saw him at first because I really did try to kill myself.  (That was the longest sentence I’ve ever typed. It’s hard to look at.)  

This might be the first time I cried about it.  I’ve been lying on the floor for the last half an hour.  I know you’re reading this.  I’m so sorry.

I get why you didn’t want me to see Dr. Winchcombe.  I’m sure you were scared.  You just cared about me.  I can’t fault you for that.  I’m so sorry I put you through that.  But you have to admit, Dr. Winchcombe figured out I was on the wrong meds.  And I’ve told you until I was blue in the face, I wasn’t trying to kill myself the second time.  It was an accident.  But I digress.  We don’t need to rehash that.  It’s in the past now.

I love you.  Both of you. Thank you for putting up with such a screwed up daughter.

Okay, I’m exhausted.  That’s enough.

-Emily  

Entry #10: August 25, 2013

I hope no one was alarmed by my absence.  Although, the two people who read this blog both know exactly where I’ve been, so it doesn’t matter much. 

In case anyone else is reading this, I’ve spent the last ten days up north with my family.  My mom just dropped me off at home about 30 minutes ago, I just unpacked, and now I’m going to hit the hay.  I have an overnight to work tonight. So that’s fun.

I was going to write an entry up there, but to be honest, I just never felt it.  It was vacation. Sue me.  I promise though, I’ll be back on track here now that I’m going to sink back into my normal rotation.  My good ol’ boring ass normal rotation.  I have some stuff I might have to catch you up on.  Maybe.  If I feel like talking about it.

Goodnight,
E  

Entry #11: August 26, 2013

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