Brian Marsden commented on The Dead Wizard
I am starting to rethink my promise of spoilers. I doubt it would stimulate more purchases and it would ruin the surprise of future novels. I’ll give you some hints though. Here’s a SPOILER from the long, long ago of the planet’s past.
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The world was once a peaceful planet with gates to planets across the universe. A place out of time, it served as a sanctuary for followers of the gods to come and confer with them. The planet protected visitors from dangers as they gained guidance from the gods and then returned to the realms of reality. It was a peaceful scholarly place. The Dragon Cities took care of the gods and the faithful alike, bringing peace to the restless universe of creation.
But some of gods still wanted to return to reality and help their peoples directly. For the Creator had had to trick half the gods, the Creator’s avatars, into coming here in the first place. Many had fought and resisted the initial confinement, but aided by the dragons and the more agreeable gods, the avatars were forced to accept their fate. Their influence over their wards diminished.
Only with the support of other avatars could any one communicate directly with their wards, thus preventing the avatars from using their wards to compete against each other and to settle petty scores with the slaughter of each others wards. Those who refused to cooperate were cut off from their wards and push deeper into the well and away from the world and reality. Things were peaceful and balanced again.
No one considered that one day a ward might come searching for its god.
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    Brian Marsden commented on The Dead Wizard
    So I tried a second set of twitter messages, and evidently I’m either already labeled a spammer or it set of some kind of posting sensor on the twitter. All it said was "Support diverse point of views in Fantasy Lit. Pre-order today @inkshares.com --- Goblin lives matter!"
    Which do you  think?
    I’m betting spam alert.
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      Brian Marsden commented on The Dead Wizard
      Half way through the drive.
      I hope the sales reflect my lack of marketing skills and not the quality of the writing. I suppose I’ll have to start giving away spoilers to draw interest. But don’t worry if you want to be surprised I’ll label those bits. Though I suppose that they aren’t really spoilers so much as details that the characters aren’t aware of. Hence their confusion about what some objects.
      One thing they aren’t aware of but, that the reader will notice is that their swear words include a lot of human swears. Partly because they live around humans, Khoma being a human run kingdom, and partly because goblins have encountered and absorbed the knowledge of some "modern" humans.
      Even the humans aren’t aware of that anymore. Pretty much only the dragons know the true history of things. Though those that lived through it are loathe to talk about it. Even with other dragons. They have their scars to remind them daily of when  the humans arrived again.

      Buy my book! Please. :-)

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        Brian Marsden sent an update for The Dead Wizard

        We are now one third the way into the pre-order sale drive. With less than sixty days to go!

        The pre-orders are off to a slow start, but an end rush is probly more typical. I have sent out appeals to the couple of syndicates the Dead Wizard falls under theme wise, and I optimistically await their decisions. I am planning to spend some of the weekend finding fantasy fan groups on facebook and and posting there. Like most of the Goodreads clubs though, postings are often limited to members only, but I’ll see what I do to persuade the owners.

        I thank those of you that have been mentioning the Dead Wizard to your friends. The more people we can get interested in the story the better the chance of taking off. If there is anything I can do that might entice your friends let me know too.

        And if you know and artist that  might be interested in doing some cover art or other promotional illustrations, send me their names and site addresses.

        Thanks for reading. There will be more to come.

        PS- I know probly isn’t a word yet... Yet!

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