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Spells of Old Audiobook is Live!

I went to take a nap, and when I got up a few moments ago the audiobook for Spells of Old was live! Where to find it:

Amazon.com

Audible

iTunes – I’m not finding this yet, I’ll see if I can find the link for it tomorrow.

I have no idea what the holdup was, but it’s live, and that makes me happy.

June 16th Update

Halls of Power is coming along pretty well. I finished my first round of editing, and am now working on my second round, where I’m trying reading it aloud to find missing words and badly phrased sections. This is creating a lot of changes.  After that it’ll go to my wife and then to the editor. I’ll likely be sending out ARC copies sometime near the end of the month.

That being said, at the time of this writing I’m feeling somewhat unwell, likely with a cold or such. I doubt it’ll slow me dow...

Delay on Spells of Old Audiobook

So, I was really, really hoping I wouldn’t have to say this. They told me that the audiobook of Spells of Old should be out soon… but it isn’t yet. And I have no idea when it’ll be out. I wish I did, and it’s frustrating.

I approved Spells of Old on June 10th, a Saturday. It’s supposed to take 10-14 business days to be approved. It’s now been 25 business days, and I have no clue when it’s going to launch. It could be tomorrow, it could be in a month. I really don’t know, though I’m hoping for...

RPG Misadventures: The Fey-Ri & the Fallen Angels

Alas, I got distracted the last few days and forgot to put together this post. Not that it seems people particularly care about them, I like rambling a bit. Back to the tale of Myrleena, the part-demon mage-rogue, and her band of plucky adventurers!

After being resurrected in the events of The Fey-Ri and the Dragon, Myrleena and her compatriots had good luck once again. Despite the army attacking the city, they managed to foil an assassination attempt on the city lord, kill the last army com...

Art & Story: Jacqueline Heartreaver

So, I finally managed to have one of my dreams come true, getting art by Michelle Hoefener. This character isn’t part of the Ancient Dreams trilogy, nor any of the books on my immediate calendar for the future. In part this is because Jacqueline is one of my ultra-villains on the continent of Kavarn, in the world of Senkar. I’m not certain how to work her into a story as of yet, but rest assured, I plan to do so. In the meantime, I’ll give you a bit of background on her. Not everything, since...

July 9th Update

First off, the pre-order of Halls of Power is live on Amazon! I may move the date from September 1st forward as far as August 15th, but much depends on how things go from here. Which brings me to the current progress on Halls of Power‘s editing.

All four of my Alpha Readers are completely through the book, and each pointed out a number of small flaws, yet none have spotted massive plot holes, thank goodness. I have added a few small segments of clarification and adjusted the wording of parts...

RPG Misadventures: The Elf and the Spy

I almost forgot to put this up today, due to a near-sleepless night due to the holiday yesterday. In any case, this story once again follows Myrleena the half-demon elf, in the Red Hand of Doom RPG campaign I was in.

Prior to the events of The Fey-Ri & the Dragon, Myrleena had already been somewhat down on her luck. I’m not going to address the encounter with a hydra, assassinating a manticore and a black dragon, or barely managing to destroy a bridge to slow down the enemy army. Suffice to...

Halls of Power: 1st Draft Complete

As the title says, approximately half an hour ago, I finished the rough draft of Halls of Power. At this point the process becomes easier in many ways, assuming I didn’t screw up by the numbers (always a possibility).

First I go through the book and correct obvious errors, like continuity errors. I’m already aware of one, and plan to fix it at a particular spot that requires almost no other adjustments. Once I’ve gone through the book, I’m going to hand it off to my Alpha Readers who will rea...

July 2nd Update

First off, I did not finish Halls of Power. It’s sitting at just over 120,000 words, and I’ve got 2-4 more chapters to go on it, including the Epilogue. I’m going to be working on it today, because I want the first draft done. This is going nuts, and making me nervous, but I’m going to do my best.

I also have no news on the Audiobook of Spells of Old yet. I’m hoping it’ll come out soon, but alas, there’s nothing I can do to hurry Audible along. It’ll be out when it’s out, and I promise that I...

RPG Misadventures: The Fey-Ri & the Dragon

Unlike my last RPG Misadventures, this one wasn’t a group I was GMing for, instead one I was playing in. This was entirely my own fault, as a player. As an aside, this is from the 3.5 Dungeons & Dragons module named Red Hand of Doom, so if you’re thinking you’ll ever play it… Spoilers Ahead! It also, alas, will not be the last post about this particular game. There were several debacles throughout the story. Now, then…

My character was an odd one. Her name was Myrleena Fa’Salvaran Es’Verenia...