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April 21st 2019 Update

First off, I’m happy with how the release of Heaven’s Fallen has gone, and even if it’s not doing the best of my books, it’s doing rather well! Everyone who purchased it, thank you very much, I deeply appreciate it, and if you’d consider leaving a review, I’d deeply appreciate it.

In further news, I should finish the final edit of Mortal Gods tomorrow, and then will be sending it to the editor, so the next book of Mantles of Power is coming along nicely! In addition, the audiobook of Heaven’s...

April 14th 2019 Update

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Heaven’s Fallen is officially released tomorrow, April 15th! Or, you know, today for those of you who’re time travelers from the future. Anyway, I’m really excited for it’s launch, and hope everyone who reads it enjoys the book!

Additionally, the pre-order for Mortal Gods is live as well! While it’s up, I want to warn that the description could be viewed as spoilers, though I tried to avoid it, so view it at your own risk. I personally don’t mind minor spoilers, they just whet my appetite fo...

Lily Portrait

This past week June Jenssen finished a portrait of Lily from the Ancient Dreams series. I’m very happy with how it turned out, and I want to thank my Patrons for helping fund the art piece.

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If you want to see artwork of more characters who haven’t ended up on covers, or are interested in seeing sample chapters well before I normally would share them, you can find them on my Patreon. Thank you all for your support!

April 7th 2019 Update

So, Mortal Gods is with the Alpha readers at the moment, and a few mistakes have already been spotted and corrected. The story ended up at 127,000 words, which makes it the longest single book I’ve written short of Halls of Power, somewhat to my shock. However, that doesn’t mean my work is done, hardly that.

I’m going to give Crisis of Faith another try on Monday and Tuesday, and we’ll see if inspiration is with me. If it isn’t, I’m diving straight into the final book of the Mantles of Power...

Mortal Gods Cover

I got the final art for Mortal Gods a couple of days ago, and I thought I’d share it now! Once again the art was done by Nguyen Uy Vu, or Chaosringen on DeviantArt, and I’m quite happy with how it turned out!

I haven’t uploaded the pre-order for Mortal Gods yet, and since Amazon restricts me to pre-orders 90 days in advance, I can’t until the 9th. As the description could likely be spoiler-y, I recommend avoiding it once the pre-order goes up until you’ve read Heaven’s Fallen, but the choice...

March 31st 2019 Update, Audiobook!

I finished the rough draft of Mortal Gods and began the first edit, which is primarily for continuity, but also to flesh out some aspects of the story. It finished at just over 119,000 words, but has now reached 125,000. The story is coming along well, and I’ve very much enjoying writing it.

In other news, the audiobook of The Obsidian Palace came out this past week! I’ll put the links below, but I’m very happy that the audiobooks are out at last! Hopefully Heaven’s Fallen will be out a bit m...

March 24th 2019 Update

Alright, so this week I sent Heaven’s Fallen to the editor, and got back to working on Mortal Gods. I didn’t get a lot of time on Mortal Gods, so it’s only at about 110,000 words, but I expect I’ll probably finish the rough draft in the coming week. As a whole, the story is something of a slow-starter, but I’m very much enjoying writing it. As I approach the end of Mortal Gods, I think that the last book is going to be a bit more explosive. We’ll see how it works out, though. Characters have...

March 17th 2019 Update

Hello everyone! As mentioned on Friday, I was out of town at a convention this past week. Due to this, I’ve made no further progress on Mortal Gods, and I may not make much more progress this coming week. The reason for this is because I need to do a final editing pass on Heaven’s Fallen before it goes to the editor this week. Once that’s done, I’m going to try to finish Mortal Gods.

Now, some of you may be wondering where that leaves Crisis of Faith. My plan was to give it another try after...

Convention & Touching Divinity Audiobook

[image error]Hey everyone! So, the reason I was gone most of this week was for a private writing convention, where I had a presentation on Fantasy & Science Fiction Genres. I didn’t tell anyone beforehand because of it being private and everything. However, it went great, and I got a lot of good advice that I think might help improve my books.

However, the nature of the convention meant that I didn’t have much access to the internet while I was there. Now that I’m back, I’m working on catching up as quick...

March 10th, 2019 Update

Alright, I’m writing this earlier than I normally do, since I’m going to be with sporadic internet by the time it goes live. First off, Mortal Gods is up to 107,000 words, and still has a fair bit to go. I’m guessing it’ll be close to the length of Heaven’s Fallen, which has about 114,000 words, but it’s not going to be finished this week unless a miracle occurs, I’m simply too busy.

That said, today for some of you, and tomorrow for most, Touching Divinity comes out. If you want to get the f...