Hya folks.

A) Thanks for whoever provided feedback/recommendations/reviews - it is really motivating to see that people (rather than my mom) are interested. And in the same breath - thanks to whoever is following!

B) A week later than promised I uploaded a new chapter. It is essentially chapter 10 (out of currently 24 written chapters), so you can see how the plot is thickening. it also introduces two new characters (I hope this doesn’t disappoint anyone).

C) Since I am off on a well earned week and a half holiday at the end of Feb, the schedule would be to finish the novel then. If i manage to do that, I’ll start funding ~mid March, hoping to have a website and even more supporters by then, I will also upload another chapter to keep you all interested, but it may be the last one - buy the book...! ;-)

Many thanks to you all!

Jon[(i)athan] Dital

Announcing Blood Dawn Risk!

Coming soon, to see the Blood Dawn funding campaign to an end, I will be hosting a game! 

I wanted to take a moment today to discuss some of the features of the upcoming game, its purpose, and how you can personally get involved. 

Blood Dawn Risk will see God-Kings and Dragons competing for control of territory in the world of Blood Dawn.  Those who have achieved official God-King or Dragon status as of today — by pre-ordering three or seven copies of Blood Dawn, respectively — will be prime competitors on the map.  Did you only order one copy?  Or did you miss your chance to be a God-King or a Dragon in time for the game?  There’s still a role for you in the game!  If anything, you’ll be courted by other God-Kings and Dragons, hoping to get you to ally with their forces.

In the set-up of the game, laid out on the official Blood Dawn map, God-Kings will have Houses assigned to a territory.  Houses want to gain control of as much territory as possible, by expanding into neighbouring territory.  There are rules in place, though, so Houses can’t just rampage across the land, doing what they want!  A house must have a troop strength equal to or higher than that of the territory they wish to claim.

Houses may wish to overtake territory already claimed by another house!  If this happens, then the Houses will move to the game’s built-in dice combat system to battle against each other.  The winner will claim the strength of the House they’ve overpowered.  Houses may also form alliances with each other, if they choose to get along.

But this is the world of Blood Dawn, where nothing is easy.

Hidden covertly in unclaimed territory will be the Dragons.  If a House tries to claim territory that a Dragon is inhabiting, the House must battle the Dragon, using the dice combat system.  If the House wins, it adds the strength of the Dragon to its troops.  But if the House loses, then the Dragon can start roving the land, leaving death and destruction in its wake!

Houses and Dragons can add to their troop strength by pulling their friends in to pre-order a copy of Blood Dawn.  Each pre-order equals one boost in strength for a House’s troops or hit points for a Dragon.  So, to win, you or your alliance, must bring your fantasy-loving friends into the fold, selling them on Blood Dawn!

And with this game, there are lots of fantastic prizes.  While some of the prizes are yet to be determined, the grand prize, awarded to the Dragon or House that emerges triumphant, is one to make any Blood Dawn fan envious!  The winner (or winning alliance) will receive a one-hour Skype conversation with me to discuss the formation of a unique nation that will then be worked into the next revision of Blood Dawn!  That’s right — the winner of this game gets to help craft the novel!

Through this game, we will achieve a boost in pre-orders of Blood Dawn.  If we can hit 750 pre-orders, Blood Dawn will qualify for the full Inkshares publishing imprint, which includes comprehensive editing, full publication, wide distribution, and promotion by Inkshares.  So, by helping to win this game, you’re helping Blood Dawn reach many more readers.

The official rules, game web page (complete with dice combat and a chat terminal), and your place in the game, will all be announced soon!  Houses and Dragons will have a chance to amass allies shortly before the game is officially launched.

I want to take a moment to thank the amazing people that are helping see this game from vision to reality.  Joseph Terzieva, author of The Lost Generation, is writing all of the game code and compiling all of the programming.  Cara Weston, author of She Is The End, helped craft the initial idea and really pushed me to see it through to completion.  And John Anderson, my artist, has coloured my map and is creating custom emblems for Houses, Dragons, and other game components.  If you haven’t already pre-ordered Joseph or Cara’s books, please click on the links above to pre-order their books and show your appreciation for the incredible work they’ve done.

I will be contacting all of the God-Kings and Dragons soon to get them started on preparing for the game — so if you’re one of these people, keep an eye on your inbox for an email from me.  And if you’re not one of these individuals, still keep an eye on your inbox for the email announcing the start of the game — you can check out the webpage and follow along, and perhaps pre-order a copy and ally your strength with a Dragon or House! 

Thank you so much for your time. 

John Robin

Greetings and salutations!

I just wanted to post a quick update before I head off to the sun, the desert and a place where I might actually be able to wear shorts and a T-shirt because it’s appropriate...not out of spite like I usually do.

Much like "One does not simply walk into Mordor." One does not move to Sweden for the weather (or climate).

A quick, but very sincere, Thank You to Faith, Kurt, John, Howard and Hesse for supporting Transilience. I highly recommend you checking out their pages. Faith has written a mystery novel that oozes pulp fiction (I mean the genre not the film). Hesse has provided an interesting spin on the CIA, a hitman and small town America.

So I will be away until Feb 23rd, but time and Transilience’s campaign will not be taking a wee holiday. I’ll be checking up on the site probably daily and hopefully some fun updates in the process. I mean I will have access to the Internet. It’s everywhere!

everywhere.....

I’ll sign off with a little something I drew instead of being productive. I think it’s pretty awesome and says a lot about the story....

I promise the actual sketch I’m giving away will be better than this, but again I quite like it.

Have a great weekend everyone!

And tell everyone you know about this little project of mine. Interest is picking up and if we can get it to snowball then publication is achievable!

Cheers!

Kev

Hi, all.

good morning fellow readers backers and followers,

We are at 3 pre order away from the first draw of a signed copy of The Life Engineered . Yes that’s right !!! 

You guys are amazing , 

Thank you so much for all helps and support you provide me so far in this campaign .

André 

4 feet of butcher paper, 10 scribbled upon pieces of scrap paper during work, and 2 weeks of intense brainstorming, sibling discussions about world-building, and hypothetical ramblings... Project Human’s plot is pretty solid, I have both mental and physical pictures of the two driving protagonists, AND some pretty epic ideas for the antagonist character(s).

I have also been trolling Pinterest for hours as a part of my storyboarding technique, read numerous speculative articles, working my way through a list of both movies and books about a speculative future involving robots (Ex Machina is awesome until the last 10 minutes, upon which both my eyebrows were raised and I had a mental mantra of "what the heck...what?" Still, excellent AI movie... if but a bit disturbing and abstract.) to both make sure I won’t unintentionally copy ideas/storylines, as well feed the creative monster a steady diet of sci-fi to prepare for my writing marathon that will be the writing of this first draft.

A blurb will probably be ready in a week or so, and I’m really excited to share that with you! And as a sneak peek, I’m going to drop the two protagonist’s names...

As the voice of the story (first person; present tense - a perspective I adore) we have Hailey, an almost-18 year old android mechanic. The android prototype is PH-S1 (Project Human, Subject 1) that is an experimental, first-of-its-kind design. I really can’t say more about the android without dropping MAJOR spoilers, but needless to say this character is where the I-Robot references come heavily into play... sort of.

Anyway, that’s it for now. If you’d like to discuss a speculative future with me (please! The more ideas, the merrier!) email me at tcbbcfangirl@gmail.com

Cheers!

Tabi