Follow Kole Kates, an avid gamer who was suddenly thrown into the vast and beautiful video game world of Venoria, as he levels up and learns new skills, to use them to end the war between two groups, the Tech Warlords and the Glory Hunters.
Greetings, all! Behold: Resistance Rising update the first!
I want to extend my thanks to all of you, whether you have already done me the honor of purchasing a pre-order or are considering doing so.
More chapters will be posted soon, but, in the meantime, I wanted to share with you a special update. I recently sat down with book reviewer & blogger Barbara Brutt to shed some further insight on the novel: what it’s all really about (plot, characters, themes) and what makes it special, why I’ve chosen to crowdfund through Inkshares and the evolution of the Genre Wars story from online filmmaking contest to indie web series and, now, to novel.
Embodiments of genres all living in one space as co-existing cultures ignited my imagination. Yet, that concept wasn’t the narrative. The story is how the characters deal with losing their world structure and facing reawakened cultural tensions.
You’ll also find, included in the article, a link to an audiobook sample of the Prologue, narrated by Benjamin Cairns.
Thank you again for your support and interest. If you’re still on the fence about this book, then I hope that this interview will help convince to make that pre-order! If you’ve already pre-ordered, you can still help by leaving a review.
Cheers!
Robin C. Farrell
Editor & Writer
DUO Media Productions
robin.c.farrell@gmail.com
***Note: photos taken by Jenna Miller of Jenna M. Miller Photography.
Happy Monday, y’all!
First off, A Beast Requires is clinging to 10th Place in the Geek & Sundry Fantasy Contest, with 85 backers. Yea, it’s getting to that part of the campaign where every backer matters, so if you haven’t had the opportunity to back A Beast Requires yet, now is definitely the time. At 107 pre-orders, we’re almost halfway to the Quill goal, which is nice.
So, dragons.
I count myself lucky that so many of you following me are writers. We all know The Struggle. It doesn’t matter how many books you’ve written, or what sort of genre you write, all of our work starts with that first glimmer of an idea. We all cultivate that glimmer, scribbling in notebooks or banging away at a keyboard. We draft, and draft again, searching for beta readers, grammar checkers, and if we’re lucky, an editor.
While we are all at different places in our writing, we all remember that first book we poured our souls in. Mine was an absolute train wreck of a fantasy adventure, involving a book, a dog, and an angry teenage wizard. I loved it so much, but twenty years later I can look back and say with absolute certainty, it was a complete pile of words. We get better with every story. Hells, we get better with every draft, and we all know the joy that comes from finishing that final edit. But it’s not our final edit, and we all know the frustration and sadness that looms off in the distant horizon.
I like writers. Actually, I like content creators, but I’m particularly biased towards writers. And cooks, but that’s an entirely different story. It’s why I’m so thankful so many writers follow me on Inkshares, and how I absolutely lose my shit when another writer backs A Beast Requires. We all know how rough it is, especially how rough an Inkshares campaign is, so it comes as a welcoming comfort every time one of likes the thing I struggled for. I will always try to back as many writers as I’m financially able to. Support means everything to a writer, especially when you’re just starting out. There will always be The Struggle, and there will always be dragons, but none of us are ever truly going through all this alone.
