Hello everyone!

It's been awhile since my last update, but I just wanted to throw a few items of interest out there.

First, I added a new book trailer earlier this week to the Inkshares page. I'm pretty happy with it, so please check it out if you haven't already.

I gained a few more orders this past week from some generous people, which I greatly appreciate, as always. You guys make this crazy ride worthwhile for me and energize me every time I see enthusiasm for my writing.

After hemming and hawing over the idea, I decided to jump on the raffle bandwagon. I'm not going to start drawing names until I get some of my wares in the mail that I plan to raffle, though. When those arrive, I will raffle items at every 10 readers. Each reader will have their name in the drawing. Anyone who ordered the eBook (Inhabitant level) will get one entry. Anyone who ordered the eBook & hard copy (Dreamer level) will get two entries. Anyone who ordered multiple copies (Narcoleptic level) will get as many entries as the number of books they ordered. No one can win more than one prize, though, so multiple entries just increases your chances of winning (which is still a victory!). So, by that estimation, I owe you 4 raffle drawings at this moment.

Here's the weirdest item I wanted to discuss. I had a vivid dream last night that actually inspired a new character (actually even a group) and plot line for the novel. I am currently brainstorming on how to integrate them, and I have a few ideas of how to do so. I'm really excited about this! It's one of those stranger-than-fiction scenarios that was hard to ignore: An idea via a dream for a dream-based novel. Hmm. It goes to show that my brain never takes a rest from writing.

I hope your miscellaneous holidays were wonderful, and you're enjoying your first two days of 2016.

Good night, and happy dreaming!

We're at only 20 days to go before the 1/22 funding end date.  At 257 followers and only 63 of those who've ordered(for a total of 67 books ordered) the Quill goal of 250 is easily within reach, but only if those of you who haven't ordered go ahead and do so.  If you're reading this just take a moment to check and see if you've ordered, and if you haven't then place your order as soon as possible.  Take the advice given on episode 9 of the Writebrain podcast by J.F. Dubeau and Paul Inman.  My thanks go with you.

I was also inspired by that episode of the podcast to give a little bit of a pronunciation guide here.  The first thing to remember when trying to pronounce a name in my books is to do it however you want to, I'm not gonna complain.  For those of you who are curious about how I pronounce some of the names though, I'll post up 6 here.

Magus:  may'Gus(as in the oh so manly name)

Buscidia:  Boo'sid'eee'ah, or Boo'sid'ya when I'm feeling my southern roots more.  Also, this name was created as an alteration of Boudicae, the Celtic queen who gave the Romans a bit to fear for their crimes against her and her family.  To reflect Buscidia's Zaltruscan heritage though I made it a point to somewhat Roman-ify her name, though, since the Roman empire is one of my chief inspirations for the Zaltruscans.

Quelzhumi Taehls:  kwell'zoo'me tay-ells

D'naeshira:  duh'nie'sheer'ah or sometimes duh'na'uh'sheer'ah

Kitden Zutden:  kit'den zoot'den... probably didn't need to bother with that one, but I love my wild gnome prankster.

Laohna:  lay'oe'nah  (similarly Tesuna is tee'soo'nah, sneaky number 7 there)

It is a Saturday update, so that means mentioning the new content I'm posting up.  This week we get to leave book 2(Exile, Hunted) and return to Exile, Magus.  This time I'll be posting up section 1 of Chapter 6, so a bit of the cliffhanger ending of Chapter 5 gets alleviated.  This is one of my "nonstop action" chapters though, giving insight into the characters through the pressure cooker that is their 3-pronged raid on a Zaltruscan slaver camp.  As such its really trading one cliffhanger for another as the raid plays out over the first 4 sections of this Chapter.  Anyway, enough of my rambling on it.  Enjoy getting to watch some Wilder Elves, Buscidia, as well as Pentaz and his fellow students from Laohna's magic Academy get a real test of their skills.

That's all I've got for this update.  If you haven't ordered, go ahead and do so because I really want this book in all of your hands, whether its in paperback or on e-reader.  Thanks for your time and support, and enjoy the rest of your first weekend of the year.