Wonderful Wednesday to all you Ghosts and Guardians!

I am happy to announce that I have a new cover design from the amazingly multitalented Kaytalin Platt, author of The Living God, which is currently funding on InkShares. Check it out!

And, *drumroll*, here it is!

Pretty cunning, donchya think?

Please continue to read and comment, share and support. November 15 will be here sooner than we know and I need at least 220 more pre-orders before then.

Thank you all!

Hey everyone,
Writing to you all again real quick to show of the books fresh new look! Kaytalin Platt was generous enough to do a cover for me and now I look all official! I really like it :) Check it out below.

If you haven’t checked out her book The Living God you really should. 

Please continue to spread the word about The Spark Internal as much as you can and order if you haven’t yet.

As always thanks again for your support!.

-Jacob

Greetings, Faoii

This has nothing to do with the book.

Yesterday was suicide prevention day. I just wanted to say that if you’ve ever considered or attempted suicide-- you’re not alone. I’m glad you’re still here. I’m glad I’m still here. I’m glad that we have each other. I’m glad that people and society are breaking down the stigma of depression. I’m glad there’s light at the end of the tunnel even when we can’t see it.

The suicide hotline number is 1-800-273-8255. There are good people on the other side of it. You matter. I matter. Life has the potential to be good. And you are loved. 
I promise to return to my regular updates tomorrow. But... statistically speaking, a lot of writers suffer from depression. So I thought it couldn’t hurt to reach out here.

Take care of yourselves. Shields up.

T

Hello, all! A quick Monday update to share that we’re now at 57 preorders! In just 6 orders time, we will be 25% funded and a quarter of the way to Witherfist being published.

At the time of writing this, Witherfist is currently a nominee for the Epic Fantasy Syndicate’s monthly pick. The syndicate supports "Grand epic fantasy with magic, a fully immersive secondary world, and series potential -- stuff that will make Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and Wheel of Time fans tingle with excitement."

It’s a real honour to be considered for the syndicate’s support and especially when there are so many brilliant fantasy books funding at the moment. I’ll write to you later this week to let you know what the outcome was!

~ Jenny

Happy Monday, dear readers!

We are sitting at 38 copies sold, which is amazing, and we’re (as best as I can figure) right in 25th place in the Geek & Sundry contest. This is great - but we can do better! Spread the word about Fae Child, and email a friend you know likes books, or share it on Facebook. Every little bit helps. If you’re following the project and haven’t ordered your own copy, it would mean the world to me if you did.

The meat of this update is an exclusive scene where Dan, Abbie’s father, is meeting with the mysterious Cat. He called her at the end of Chapter 3, and gets a face to face with her later on in the book.

*****

The Cat sat sideways in her chair as Dan approached, legs crossed and toes artfully pointed. A pair of lime green heels lay haphazardly on the wood floor where they’d fallen. “I have to say, I did not expect to hear from you.” Her voice was a throaty purr, and she tossed her long purple hair over her shoulder as she sat up.

“You know why I’m here.” He stood firm a few feet away from her chair. One could better describe the piece of furniture the Cat reclined upon as a ‘throne,’ but he didn’t want to give her the satisfaction.

“Indeed I do. My secretary is quite good,” the Cat said, amber eyes focusing on him. The pupils were vertical slits, and she smiled suddenly. “You should see your face, Wodan. Imagine, you, so worried about a mere child. I never thought I’d see the day that you cared about something more than yourself. Or that there existed something the Hunter could not find.”

She lifted a manicured hand, and a file folder floated off of a side table toward her. Plucking it from the air, the Cat flipped it open. “And a wife as well.” The female made a noise in her throat that Dan realized belatedly was a chuckle. “To risk your exile by exposing,” that rancid laugh again, “yourself like this - your time here in the world has changed you more than I thought possible.”

“I’m not here to talk about me.” Dan crossed his arms across his broad chest, his legs a pace apart for balance. “I want to know what you’ve heard about my daughter.”

“No need to be rude,” the Cat said sharply. “You are the one here for a favor. It costs you nothing to indulge me, and yet you want to push past all the fun.”

He raised an eyebrow. “Felines tend to play with their food. Forgive me if I refuse to be toyed with.”

“Wonderful creatures, aren’t they,” the Cat mused, ignoring the latter part of his comment.

“A little smaller than a dragon,” he said, staring at her, and she laughed.

“One makes their allowances to live among the humans. You have hidden your ears, and apparently your spine, while I…” the Cat gestured down at her slim, feminine body. “Your girl is not the first who’s found themselves in the Otherworld, and she won’t be the last. I don’t do housecalls anymore, though, if you want her out, you’re going to have to get her yourself.”

He clung to hope. “So she’s alive?”

The Cat smiled, an ugly expression on her beautiful face. “I have my people looking into it. With Gate travel outlawed, you understand it takes more than a wish on a star to discover what it is you want to know.”

****

Hope you enjoyed this sneak peek! Until next time!

Jane-Holly

Good morning everyone! 

A monster had been unleashed and he felt it would return soon. 

It’s Monday, Ghosts and Guardians!

For those of you who follow multiple books on Inkshares, this may be just one of many updates in your email. I promise it’s a good one. For those of you who follow only me, thanks for sticking with me. ;-)

This week I want to introduce you to Will, who appears in Chapter 5 "A Wolf in Man’s Clothing". Will is the character that has changed the most since his inception over fifteen years ago. His name and his lycanthropy are the only two constants about him over the years. Initially, he was the plucky comic relief (a la Wash from Firefly) but he has become a somber, spiritually centered young man whose morality is at constant odds with his nature. In one draft, Will served as the "everyman" (despite his werewolf-ness) and to an extant, he still serves in that role here, although he is introduced much later in the story. 

(More trivia: Maninder/Frank was the original "everyman", the first to be introduced. Now he is the last to be introduced, and, arguably, the hardest to empathize with.)

So, let’s get to it. Who is Will?

Man 

Werewolf 

Catholic 

Writer 

Alone 

Quiet 

Novice Chef 

Empathetic 

Diplomatic 

Anxious 

Inhibited 

Gracious 

Forsaken Son 

Adopted Brother 

Noble Friend 

Shepherd of Devotion 

Neutral Good 

Champion