Hail Bards, Ovydds, and Druids!

I am checking in to inform you of some changes to the page!

First of all, given a considerable amount of feedback, I have chosen to modify the title of the book. I have stripped the Man’s Damnation clause and left the Series name as the title for the first book. I think it flows just fine. 

Secondly, I have updated the Book Cover design, obvious, isn’t it? New name, need a new cover. Tell me what you think!

Next order of business, given the poor reception of the last introduction video that I produced, I went back to the drawing board and came up with a new concept for the video. I have placed in on the Pre-Order Page and I will link it here. 

NEW TRAILER FOR THE LORE OF THE AOS SÍ

Lastly, I want to reach out to all of you following. All 137 of you! You are following this project for a reason, either because I harassed you enough, or you find it intriguing. I know there are a lot of projects here on Inkshares, many of which are yours. I need your help! 

1. Talk to me! Your feedback is INVALUABLE. I am writing this thing for many reasons, but the primary reason is because people have expressed interest. I need to know what you like, and what you don’t like if I am going to succeed.

2. Some of you have clicked that magical little button called Pre-Order. In fact 42 of 137. Not too bad really, in fact its AWESOME. Tell me what is holding the additional 95 back? Do I need to do something incredibly drastic? I’ll make a video of me singing the backstreet boys if it’ll sell copies! (Seriously, you have no idea the measures to which I will go. Dignity left me a long, long time ago)

Well? What do I have to do to get you to click Pre-Order this weekend? Tell me, and I swear to you I will do it....

Oh no...what have I done....

Cheers!

Christopher Lee

Happy Friday!

I don’t know about you, but this week was exhausting. I’d say I’m happy for the weekend, but I’ve got to work on Saturday (part-time wedding photographer/videographer). It’s time to rally and keep pushing, both with this campaign and staying awake while interacting with humans. I find that when I get this rundown, I just got to focus on putting one foot in front of the other. I think that’s a good solution for a lot of things in life. 

Campaign Update: We are 64 orders from making Quill! That is super exciting! We are still 5th in the contest. Help me out by recommending the book on Inkshares. It’s that cool black Recommend button next to those colorful social media icons at the top of The Living God page. While you’re there, why don’t you share on your social media as well? 

And, this is really important! If you haven’t already, why don’t you leave a review? Its as easy as clicking the link right there and typing, "This book is really interesting! Check it out!" 

Book Cover promotion is still going strong. If you haven’t yet placed a pre-order, and happen to need a flashy cover designed by a professional cover artist, a cover that isn’t pixilated or potentially going to get you sued for copyright infringement, I’m your girl. Here is just a PSA about copyright infringement. I point out the copyright thing because many authors don’t know that taking images from Google and using them in their promotions, whether as a book cover, a poster, or banner ad is illegal and it can really get you into trouble with copyright laws. I am part of a number of author web and Facebook groups and I can’t tell you the number of times I see copyrighted content being used by an author. This includes artwork found on Deviant Art (or any artist’s website). You have to have written permission (often a contract) to use artwork from an artist, and it often includes payment upfront or commission from book sales. Unless the artist is a friend, and then that is between you guys. Memes or GIFs are totally different and not included in this PSA, just images taken and passed off as belonging to some you or related to a work that you created, when in fact it was created for someone and something else. If you need imagery for your book or promotions I highly recommend stock photography websites. There are some free and some paid. My favorite free one is, I kid you not, Free Images.com.  My favorite paid one is Deposit Photos.com, it is reasonably priced. Okay, end of PSA and sorry, that made this update got pretty long, but I thought it was something that would be helpful to you guys in the future. 

Aleira Ritan

Aleira grew up in Adrid, on its border with Mavahan. When she was five her family tried to flee the poverty and civil war in Adrid as refugees, her family was slaughtered and she was captured during a border skirmish with Mavhan forces. Aleira was sold as a slave to a small facility that specified in training Champions and Challengers. Since she was small and frail, she was branded with the mark of a Sparring slave, and never meant to be anything other than disposable practice meat. But, Aleira did not die. She fought, she killed, she lived. She survived to become the reigning champion of the female Challengers and was later bought by the royal family and given to Xalen as a wife. She did not know Xalen’s kindness at the time, but saught to show him that she was no man’s property. She beat him senseless on his wedding night, which earned his respect as well as his admiration. They grew to love each other. After losing her child, Aleira vowed that she would make Mavahan pay and that, when the time came, every slave would taste freedom.

Hello readers,

So...sorry for accidentally maintaining a radio silence for three months. I had meant to post an update on how the Remains is going and keep the good folks here up to date on these things. But I guess being bad at keeping up with self-made promises is one of the reasons I’m slightly overweight and are writing a novel instead being a blogger. Well...I’m not gonna make any promises here that I think I will accidentally break, so let’s move on.

The Remains is chugging along at a steady pace...and I shall now unveil The Remains of Civilization V2.0! 

Here’s a slightly more typo-free, 200% more humorous, and punchier chapters of the book! I promise this time the revision I made to the chapter will make rereading them be like adding sprinkles on a vanilla-flavored ice-cream on a hot, sunny day instead of a reptitive task. I would be interested in hearing your feedback on the story so far and your opinions on it. The reader’s voice is essentially the lifeblood of writers, we REALLY can’t live without ’em.

Chapter 0

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Other than that, I can now also officially announce that I will finish this draft before or during NaNoWriMo and also had finished planning and writing down the ending for the story. Funny how the ending was almost completely different from how I had finished the first draft, but that was never meant to be the real ending anyway, the ending to the first draft served as a placeholder for when I thought of a better ending and a reminder that if you don’t plan...eh things can really become a mess really quickly. At the end, the current draft is more a rewrite than an edit, really.

Well, that’s unfortunately all. I’ll probably post another update next month. Until then.

-Yicheng Liu

Hello Knightmares!

My campaign ends in 24 hours! If you still want to grab a book before all the perks end, do so today! They’ll be gone tomorrow!

Updates to come as I enter into the next phase of publishing The Knightmares. 

In the meantime, check out my other project, VEXED!

Thanks again to everyone who helped me reach my goal. I can’t thank you enough!