Greetings all, and as usual a special welcome to new followers who have found me this week!
Updating slightly earlier this week, because I can’t contain my excitement - my cover art is done, and I’m doing my happy dance. It’s a wonderful and surreal feeling to see your name on the cover of your first novel.
But wait, that’s not all!
RULE BRITANNIA IS NOW OPEN FOR PRE-ORDERS!!!
Of course now all the hard work starts, but I’m super excited to be taking my book to the next stage. This weekend I’ll be finalising Rule Britannia’s Facebook page where I’ll share other snippets about the world of the story, as well as the characters.
I hope to see you there!
At ease, faoii. There are no orders tonight, only words.
I am 28 years old today.
I know it doesn’t seem like a particularly important milestone, but look around you. Somehow, in one year, we have gone from The Last Faoii sitting on my shelf, consigned to gather dust for the rest of eternity to this. An entire army of people willing to lift a blade to make sure that it becomes more than just a dream. That it becomes something real-- a sword for our daughters to wield when it seems there are no more heroines. I had given up a year ago. I knew Faoii was a story worth telling, but had lost hope that it would ever happen. It was on a whim that I decided to try Inkshares for one final charge at an unattainable victory. Who would have thought at the time that so many would come to the call?
I don’t think I ever truly expected to be where I am now. I play many roles, depending on the day. I am a mental health activist, a political blog writer, a teacher, a sign waver... and a faoii. I didn’t expect to be these things-- Blades, on many occasions I didn’t even expect to see this birthday. But now I’m here, and I am, as always, eternally grateful to be able to say that I fight many wars on many fronts-- but there is only one where so many people stand behind me in the name of a tale that no one else but us can make happen.
I know that everything seems uncertain, faoii. Inkshares can’t tell me when our story will be published or even when they’ll request the manuscript that waits so tentatively on that shelf. It would be so easy to lose hope; to regress to where we were a year ago. But we will not.
I will continue to fight for this story until there is no more breath left in my body. And I am honored to have you at my side during the battle. In 28 years, I have never wanted to be anywhere as much as here. Shields up.
Faoii-Tahani
Hello Air Pirates,
So it looks like Wings of the Pirate is somewhere in the middle of a long list of titles waiting to be published at Inkshares. The manuscript was polished and turned in with Illustrations back in January so I will keep on them. Thank you for all your faith and patience with this publishing adventure. If you like Westerns though, I just released a collection of short Western stories that is based on a Western Film I did a few years ago titled "Friend of the Devil". It is available in hardcopy or ebook at:
https://www.amazon.com/Short-Western-Tales-Friend-Devil/dp/1540347591/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1489541993&sr=8-3&keywords=eric+heisner
Hopefully Wings of the Pirate will be flying into your homes early this Fall...
Sincerely, your Seaplane Captain,
Eric H. Heisner
www.leandogproductions.com
Friends, Readers, and Sorcerers All,