C. Gockel's Blog, page 76
February 21, 2015
Amy is going to a dark place. This is the figure for the cover...
Amy is going to a dark place. This is the figure for the cover of In the Balance: Part 3.5 of I Bring the Fire. I imagine she is about to find “full Chaos Loki” (I think she liked him more than controlled by Odin Loki). Can’t wait to see what my background artist does with it.
The first part of I Bring the Fire is free on Amazon, iBooks, B&N, Kobo, and GooglePlay.
February 20, 2015
"Treat all your secondary characters like they think the book’s about them."
- Jocelyn Hughes (via writewild)
My Editor is Too Invested in My Story
She’s afraid to read to the end for fear it may be sad. (I reassured her, the ending is upbeat and positive).
I think the emotional investment is a good thing …
February 19, 2015
Twenty-Four Hour Sale of In the Balance
My novella, In the Balance, is currently on sale for only 99 cents at Amazon … for no other reason than I want to see how much a bump I can get from Tumblr and Facebook alone!
Here is the set up:
Chaos can never really be destroyed …
Loki, God of Chaos, gave Amy Lewis all his memories, and one request before he saved the universe. “Remember for me.”
Amy knows Loki will find her, one way or another … eventually. But as the weeks have ticked by she’s lost hope.
Called into the FBI headquarters to identify a magical artifact, she gets the opportunity to find Loki for herself. In doing so, she tips the scales of not one, but two universes, and has to choose for herself what form she wants Chaos to take.
The fate of the Nine Realms is in the balance, and this time it is in Amy’s hands.
An I Bring the Fire novella that takes place after Chaos. Download it now >
As usual, the first in series is still free on Amazon, iBooks, B&N, Kobo, and GooglePlay.
February 18, 2015
Just an idea for the new cover (which is insanely gorgeous): make the "a loki story" and "part one" smaller. It would maybe balance things better. Those pieces of information are important, but not as important as the name.
Oh, thank you so much for saying it’s gorgeous. I agree about making “The Loki story” and “Part One smaller” on an aesthetic level, but it’s actually a tough call. You see, sometimes what looks better doesn’t sell books as well. I discovered about 10% of my mailing list were looking for “Loki” when they found my book … so making Loki stand out might be a business over aesthetic decision. Especially since my Loki doesn’t look like Tom H.
Maybe I could go smaller with Part One though.
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thegreenwolf:
People often...
People often think of fire as a destructive force, and it can be. But fire also rejuvenates the land. Many grasses have evolved root systems that survive fires so they can be renewed, and some trees and other plants have seeds that only germinate after a fire has come through. Plus fires clean out old dead wood and other debris, making it easier for fresh plant life to grow.
It’s like a picture of the tide coming in, somewhere in the Elemental Chaos.
This reminds me of something that’s been bugging me in fiction for awhile: destruction and death is very often treated as something that’s intrinsically bad and evil, rather than something that just is, something that’s an natural part of life and existence.
If it wasn’t for destruction and death on a mass scale, our species wouldn’t even be here. Destruction and cataclysm brought about the changes that eventually triggered the evolution of mankind.
The way I see it, you don’t have to like it, and you have every right to fight back if that’s what you want, but it’s not evil - it’s just part of nature. It’s something that simply is and always will be as long as our world exists.
You might like I Bring the Fire. That is kind of the theme of the entire series.
February 17, 2015
visceradolly:sapientpearwood:
raskina:
forest creature
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This is *tentatively* going to be the new cover for I Bring the...
This is *tentatively* going to be the new cover for I Bring the Fire.
Still free on Amazon, iBooks, B&N, Kobo, GooglePlay, & Smashwords.
The entire series is FREE Scribd and Oyster subscription services—and also available via your library on Overdrive
Current covers below:
