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October 26, 2017
SEVENFOLD SWORD: WARLORD excerpt
Let’s have a short excerpt from SEVENFOLD SWORD: WARLORD.
Poor Tamlin’s going to have a nasty surprise someday:
“You speak truly, Calliande Arban,” said Urzhalar, the undead sorcerer’s glowing eyes turning towards her. “My brothers Khurazalin and Qazaldhar were not deceived. You are indeed dangerous.”
“Khurazalin is dead,” spat Tamlin.
“As am I, Sir Tamlin,” said Urzhalar. “As am I.”
-JM
SILENT ORDER: FIRE HAND now available!
I am pleased to report that SILENT ORDER: FIRE HAND, the fifth book in the SILENT ORDER series, is now available at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon DE, Amazon CA, Amazon AU, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo, Google Play, and Smashwords.
The galaxy is at war, and an archaeologist’s accidental discovery might destroy civilizations.
When Jack March is sent to rescue a high-ranking operative of the Silent Order from the sinister Final Consciousness, he expects trouble.
He doesn’t expect to find an ancient alien relic capable of annihilating worlds.
And if the Final Consciousness can seize that relic, the galaxy will burn…
-JM
October 25, 2017
FROSTBORN/SEVENFOLD SWORD question: why not dark elven kings?
Joey asks:
“I am currently re-reading Sevenfold Sword: Swordbearer for the 2nd time. While reading a question popped in my head as to “Why aren’t there any Dark Elven kings? I read where you speak of Dark Elven Princes like the Traveler.”
The dark elves did use to have kings. Except the urdmordar killed them all. And by “killed”, of course, I mean “ate alive.” So the title has sort of fallen out of favor among the surviving dark elves.
The Sovereign could have called himself a king, but he generally trained his subjects to revere him as a god. (The Warden did the same thing with the tribes of mutant orcs he kept in Urd Morlemoch.) Also, the dark elves refuse to share their true names with any other kindreds, so they generally become known from the titles the other dark elves give them – the Sovereign, the Warden, the Artificer, the Confessor, and so forth.
Some dark elves have called themselves a king, but since the urdmordar more or less destroyed dark elven civilization, they only rule over tribes of whatever kindreds they can enslave. Early in Andomhaim’s history, the knights of Andomhaim had to fight a dark elven lord who called himself the Nightcrowned King.
But because the dark elves hold all other kindreds in contempt, they regard a dark elf who declares himself a king ruling over humans or tribes or orcs or whatever the same why you and I would regard a man who had a warren of rabbits, declared himself their King, and started trying to pay his electric bill with his own self-issued royal currency with his portrait on it.
So the title of king has more or less fallen out use among the dark elves.
-JM
October 24, 2017
SEVENFOLD SWORD: WARLORD excerpt
Editing SEVENFOLD SWORD: WARLORD today. Let’s have a brief excerpt!
“That went better than I expected,” said Ridmark.
Calliande smiled. “You’re a pessimist, my love.”
Ridmark grunted. “And you’re not?”
“Well.” Calliande sighed. “No one died, and that was the important thing.”
-JM
October 23, 2017
SEVENFOLD SWORD: WARLORD editing underway!
The editing for SEVENFOLD SWORD: WARLORD is underway, so let’s see the cover image!
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As with the previous FROSTBORN/SEVENFOLD SWORD covers, it was done by Clarissa Yeo.
If all goes well, the book will be out sometime in November.
-JM
October 22, 2017
SEVENFOLD SWORD: the Seven Swords, the Nine Kings, and the seven Maledicti
One of the most common reader requests after SEVENFOLD SWORD: SWORDBEARER was a chart listing who had the Seven Swords, who were the nine kings of the realm of Owyllain, and who were the seven high priests of the Maledicti. That seemed like a good idea, so I made the following chart, which will be included in SEVENFOLD SWORD: WARLORD and all subsequent SEVENFOLD SWORD books, though it will be modified as characters get killed off. 
October 21, 2017
SILENT ORDER on Google Play
I’m pleased to report that SILENT ORDER: AXIOM HAND made Google Play’s list of New & Notable SF/F books for October. Thanks everyone!
SILENT ORDER: FIRE HAND, the fifth book in the series, will be coming out next week.
-JM
October 20, 2017
Interesting Links #4: Writing & Marketing Advice
This week’s Interesting Links are mostly about writing advice and book marketing. Topics in which I have great interest, needless to say.
October 19, 2017
SEVENFOLD SWORD: WARLORD rough draft finished!
I am pleased to report that the rough draft of SEVENFOLD SWORD: WARLORD is finished at 105,000 words!
Next up is UNTITLED SEVENFOLD SWORD novella, which I will give away for free to my newsletter subscribers when SEVENFOLD SWORD: WARLORD comes out.
Actually, that’s misleading. I know what the title of UNTITLED SEVENFOLD SWORD novella will be, but the title itself is a spoiler for what it’s about. Let’s just say it’s something that FROSTBORN/SEVENFOLD SWORD readers have been asking about for years, and it’s finally going to be in one of the short stories.
If all goes well, SEVENFOLD SWORD: WARLORD will come out in November.
-JM
SILENT ORDER: ECLIPSE HAND now available!
I am pleased to report that SILENT ORDER: ECLIPSE HAND, the fourth book of the SILENT ORDER science fiction series, is now available at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon DE, Amazon CA, Amazon AU, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Kobo, Google Play, and Smashwords.
The galaxy is at war, and an unexpected scientific discovery can change the fate of empires.
When Jack March stumbles across a space battle, he rescues a naive young scientist. But her accidental breakthrough has uncovered a dangerous secret, a secret the Final Consciousness will destroy worlds and kill trillions to protect.
Starting with Jack March…
-JM
