A bumbling madman in an unholy relationship with the written language. Author of Exile, Magus; Exi...
Good day fellow readers / backers.
First of all I want to thank you so much for ordering Arcadia.
Arcadia is Peter Pan meeting The King in Yellow.
We have the first story up on inkshares titled : Simone.
Friday : I will release the 2nd story titled : Jane.
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once again thank you, next update on Friday :)
Hey guys! Sorry for the long gap of time since my last update on the actual book. Chris and I, along with the help of our Dev Editor, have been elbow deep in the manuscript to finish edits. The manuscript is nearly 75% finished with its Developmental Edit and then its shipped off to Inkshares for them to work their magic!
In the mean time check out our Instragram page for more of the Art you guys love so much!
Today is that reviled day of the year in which I must officially acknowledge that I am one more year older than dirt. Boo! Hiss! If you feel inclined to give a birthday gift, then consider giving a gift to myself and yourself by placing a preorder. Okay, sales pitch over, now to get on to the interesting stuff.
Today I’ll be talking about the 2nd rarest of the Dwarven subspecies. The Zaltruscans and wanderers from other kingdoms refer to them as the Sartval, making this their most common name, but they have other names elsewhere - Elbegast in Hanaen, Yimeeri in the Frozen North. No one knows if the elves of Lanadalaria have their own name for them since the elves of the eastern nation don’t really talk with outsiders.
The Sartval are a savage race, their only interaction with outsiders taking the form of raids. They usually take as many prisoners as possible to use as slaves and eventually food. Just what caused their degradation into such a violent people with a preference for the meat of intelligent humanoids is a topic of much debate among scholars, debate which has failed to find any common conclusion.
Some theorize that they are exiles and/or descendants of exiles from Thierdenvolgenlunder who turned savage out of desperation over their banishment, though some argue that they were likely already such savages which is why they were exiled. Thierdenvolgenlunders would be quick to inform you that there have not been near enough exiles since their founding to account for the whole of the Sartval race, if Thierdenvolgenlunders even knew of their savage cousins’ existence that is. Others believe that the Sartval only became this way after the 2nd fall of the Melexi and Thirosian empires, their culture falling in parallel to those of goblins, orcs, giants, and various lesser known savage humanoids. Still others believe that they worship and/or have pledged their services to demons, dragons, debauched elemental lords, or whatever otherworldly bogeyman the speaker prefers and it is their pursuit of this worship/service that they commit vile acts.
The only things that are known are that Sartval are some of both the strongest and toughest of opponents in battle, and that they don’t speak to outsiders unless it is to bark commands.
That’s all I’ve got for the update section today, though I will be posting up my feeble attempt to make the Sartval a playable D&D 5th edition race. For those of you who don’t play D&D, I’ll close as always by saying thank you for your time and support. Keep reading and enjoying!
Happy Labor Day everyone!
Here is an awesome picture by Phil Rood to celebrate a day off work, some tasty demon hearts, and the workers that brought us this holiday!
Hello everyone!
It’s been a while since my last update and I have lots of news!
First, the developmental edits are done. This was a massive job I’ve been tackling for the last 5 weeks that even involved me taking two weeks off work and doing nothing else for the entire time. I’m happy to say the time was well spent and the book has improved in leaps and bounds. My amazing developmental editor gave me lots of work that mostly involved adding in more of pretty much everything and making sure the story and wording were clear. Usually editors recommend cutting chapters, characters or even entire story arcs at this stage, so being asked to do the opposite was a very positive sign!
I’ve uploaded the most recent versions of the sample chapters onto my Inkshares page for anyone who’s curious about the changes. We still have copy editing to get through and then proofreading so these samples will get polished up a little more yet before going to print.
Second, the publication date has been pushed back to May 30th, 2017. There were a number of production and marketing reasons for the change. But the positive side of it is I got a couple extra weeks to work on developmental editing and a slightly more relaxed schedule for the following stages.
And finally, I should have a couple early versions of my book cover back from the cover designer around September 15th which I will be sure to send out to gauge everyone’s opinion!
Thank you all for your continued patience and support! The Bones of the Past is well on its way and it’s going to be awesome!
Cheers!
OK folks, I may have appeared dormant for a long while, however, I have actually been really busy.
As you may or may not recall, Children missed its funding goal by a considerable margin. As a result, I decided to have a crack at Kickstarter. (ha ha, I just typed Kinkstarter; I expect that’s a whole different website!)
Well I did hit the KS goal and self published this summer. Sales are steady if not exhilarating but that’s not what this is about.
I still think Inkshares is a superb business model with some valuable features which are lacking in self publishing. Therefore I want to give it another go with the sequel. I plan a number of books in the series, and obviously I want consistency across the whole thing but it’s not too late at book 2 to switch horses. If I make funding then it must be possible to go back and redo book 1 as part of the series.
So, please could you all start by following Women Of The Wise Oak here on Inkshares, and we’ll take it from there.
I’m not sure when I will feel ready to launch. Maybe when I am halfway through writing it? Or perhaps when there seems to be some support coming in? We’ll see.
Hello, friends!
Exciting news and chance to win big…well big-ish
The big news is I entered the Inkshares’ Crypt TV Collection contest with my horror comedy Bad Medicine: Slay It Queen.
Here is what the novel is about: The Walking Dead meets Ru-Paul’s Drag Race. An up-and-coming drag-queen faces a poorly timed zombie apocalypse. Can she wield a machete and still look good in Jimmy-Choo?
The idea for this novel has been haunting me for a while and when I saw the announcement for the latest Inkshares contest I had to go for it
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A novel about drag queens needs…you guessed it, drag queens, and YOU, my friend, could be one of them.
Pre-order a copy of Bad Medicine then submit to me via commenting on this post, e-mail or twitter your drag queen name and enter the chance of becoming a character in the book.
Winners will be selected randomly every Friday. A total of 8 winners will get to put on their heels and walk the fictional streets of a zombie-plagued New York City.
Your drag-name can be whatever you want. There are drag queens called Sharon Needles and Hedda Lettuce, and others called Bianca Del Rio and Lady Bunny. Absolutely up to you, but if you need help coming up with a name, just take the name of your first pet and the street where you grew up. In my case that would be Bambi Sargento, which sounds like a dominatrix with a softer side, right?
Let’s have fun; I want to see your drag-names, and I want Bad Medicine to become a reality. I call that a win, win, win situation!
Have a fantastic Labor day weekend!
