Not much to report this Monday, so you’ll get to the good stuff sooner than usual! 

We gained a good amount of ground last week and jumped back up to 5th! Still, there is a good bit of distance between us and being in the Top 3. We are 54 Unique Readers away from getting up there with the heavy hitters. But, that’s okay! We are 98 away from our Quill goal! 

We are still running the promotion for free cover art developed for your book for the next people to pre-order. As a publication designer, I can tell you that you will be hard pressed to find cover are for as little as $10! This doesn’t include illustrated covers because of the amount of time and effort it takes to draw a cover versus whip one together using photo manipulation. I wish I could do heavily detailed illustrations in that amount of time because I love them, but I can’t. The most I could accomplish for you in trade is a black and white sketch. So, if you don’t need a cover, but want a scene sketched out, I could work that out for you.

Okay! On to the good stuff.

Here is a new short story up that I wrote some time back. The Assassin and the Cook. The premise: What you aren’t born good at, you can learn to be. 

Character for today: 

YARIN D’MOR

Yarin was the best friend to the King of Adrid, Dante Vanguard, before he was driven mad by visions from the Vel d’Ekaru, also known as The Living God. The Living God is a being foretold to bring about the destruction of the world in order to purify it. The visions urged him to seize power and lay the foundations for the Living God’s rise. The economy of Adrid was declining and the might of its military wavered. Yarin used this to convince a group of nobles and military officials to let him seize the throne. He killed Dante and most of the royal family, before taking Dante’s daughter, Rebecca, as his wife. This meant that the Core, the soul of the world, would accept the legitimacy of his rule. Yarin D’Mor was a Time Mage like his daughter, but his illness has stripped him of his magic.