Thomas J. Arnold liked an update for Storm of Fury

Acolytes,

As promised, Chapter Three is available for your enjoyment! (A little late, yes, but I had to tweak it a little.)

Also, great news! Inkshares is adding an e-book option on November 13th! This option costs 10$ and will give you the e-book only version of Storm of Fury when the book is published. Thankfully, you don't have to hand over 20$ to buy the book anymore. (Unless you want a physical copy.) Anyone who has been considering buying, but not wanting to burn a $20 bill, just wait until Friday!

Hope to see you all next week!

Zealot Andrew

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Thomas J. Arnold liked an update for Tale of Boulderoth

Greetings my Boulderoleros!

The weather in New York today is perfect for a winter in Boulderoth: cool, rainy, and kinda gross. Thanks, god of storms. This week I've been tweaking maps and patching up a few things with the history of the Empire.

Watching a half dozen documentaries about ancient Athens and Mycenaean shenanigans, as well as a few about Edo period Tokyo helped me develop a more fleshed out city on the barren rocks that were the Grey Crag. Think Manhattan, but with Greco-Roman archiecture and the tight quarters of Tokyo. Also, quick change, the Grey Crag is now no longer the refuge of a fleeing elven prince trying to hide a sacred text. It is now the secret stronghold of a ruthless elven warlord prince who sets up a military outpost on this small cluster of islands and develops a "magical weapon", which he then uses to destroy the islands and most of the people living in the city that has developed around the outpost. But there is still a book. Elves love books. The people who survive the category 11 hurricane and the volcano that rises up from the sea floor and boils most of the people before launching them into space and junk...they wash up on the beaches of Tarkinos and the southern coast.

From there it's all zombies, kingdom, war, peace, war, empire, civil war, civil war, civil war, barbarian conquest, military revolution, civil war, political upheavals, creedence clearwater revival, and The Blackening bringing us to the home stretch with the Sacred Band (Paladins) and the fall of the Eastern Empire just like always. Also, I'm toying with the idea of the "elves" being called the "immortals". They're not really elf-elves, they just have pointy ears and live forever...pretty much. They're way more like samurai. I'll get on that.

Earth, sea, empire. =)

-NDF

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Thomas J. Arnold liked an update for Asteroid Made of Dragons

And then there comes the day. The day when the sun shines and you see something beautiful.

Here it is. The official front cover of Asteroid Made of Dragons. The entire team at Inkshares and Girl Friday Production and our designer David Drummond really knocked it out of the park. Tom and Veronica from Sword & Laser were also instrumental in guiding the style of this and I can't thank them enough. If it weren't for all these skilled, talented, kind people - the cover would have probably come out looking something more like this:

How do I feel?

Proud and terrified. This cover is marketable and slick and makes me feel very, very grown up. Also it kind of looks like a Beholder.

I wanted you guys to be the first to see - as you're the ones that made it happen. I'll do an 'official' reveal on my site in the next day or so, but for now GAZE DEEPLY INTO THE ABYSS.

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Thomas J. Arnold liked an update for Disintegration

If you live in New York, you're aware of how crap is the weather. Well, this is a good day on Earth, in Disintegration. This is just shy of beautiful: gray skies, no direct sunlight, constant spittle raining down. Heavenly.

Just imagine a bad day.

Bad days are more normal, in my book. Charcoal-colored skies and near-perpetual, sulfuric acid-polluted rain. Being outside in that muck would be unpleasant enough without roving hordes of Ingili (corren exiles from the Confederation military) and human brigands trying to rob you at best ... and whatever you can imagine, at worst.

I've been writing. Constantly writing. Revising. Not sure how I'm going to make 750 hardcover copies but I'm wishin', and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin' (well, not prayin') ... and even though the song tells me that won't get my book into people's arms (that is what the song is about, right?), I'm-a do it anyway.

Inkshares will be adding an additional three weeks to my campaign because they now have an eBook-only purchase option that is exactly half the cost of the hardcover book.

Something to bear in mind: the price is not the cost of the book itself.

The price is the amount of your donation. Your contribution to crowdfunding the publication of a new author. Me. You'd be investing not just in Disintegration going to print, but also in getting your unique artwork-drawn by me (I'm a pretty decent artist, so this prize doesn't actually suck)--and creating exposure for this story, which would translate so well to screen. Imagine Disintegration as a Netflix series. How cool would that be?

Order your copy, today.

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Thomas J. Arnold liked an update for Monkey Business

Hello folks!

My wife is currently on a plane somewhere over America doing a final read through of Monkey Business. Once she's done with that I'll be sending in the manuscript to Inkshares. Presumably they will try to turn it into something a person might actually want to read.

I don't know if they've completely worked out the light publishing process yet but we'll find out together. I'll let you know more as I know more.

Thank you all. Thank you so much.

- Landon

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Thomas J. Arnold liked an update for Beyond The Code

Hello there everyone. Thank you all for your support. Things are going very well on the editing front. I just wanted to take a moment to remind you wonderful people that I, like any writer, need your feedback. If you have the time I would deeply appreciate discovering what you liked or dis-liked about what you've seen of my work so far. I want nothing more then to make this story the best it can be.

Again thank you all for your support and I look forward to hearing from you.

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Thomas J. Arnold sent an update for Exile, Magus

This week marks the beginning of my schedule truly becoming hectic, so I'm gonna try to be as brief as possible with this one.

First, you may have already noticed the new cover art. Its of a scene from Chapter 3 that I like to think of as Buscidia and Pentaz versus the Cog Monster, which is one of my favorites. It was done by a wonderful artist named Lizzy Perez, and for any other authors out there who would like to see about getting some art done by her you can contact her at morzaph@gmail.com

The orders are continuing to come in, but unfortunately it doesn't look like it will be fast enough to reach 100 by Friday. This means that Friday I'll be posting up another map instead of Chapter 6. I just hope I can get around to finishing the map by then.

Finally, unless something changes with scheduling I'm going to be on Vitamin Geek Podcast this coming Monday(11/16). In the meantime if you're not already familiar with them be sure to check out the Vitamin Geek Facebook page and/or just go straight to listening to some of their past episodes here.

Like I said, I'm trying to keep this one short, so that's all I've got for now. Keep reading, enjoy the rest of your week, and thanks for the support. I expect to see everyone back Friday afternoon.

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