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May 25, 2014
Get Acquainted Special Offer
We are running a special to allow people to get acquainted with both of the Loralynn Kennakris books! We’ve dropped the price of The Alecto Initiative to $0.99 for this week. So if you missed it, you can pick up both Alecto and The Morning which Breaks for under $5! Many thanks to everyone who… Continue reading...
May 23, 2014
Are You Lost?
If you find yourself a bit lost with all the names and places that are appearing in the series, we have a little help for you: a handy map! Download it to see what and where. We’ll be updating this map with each new book to reflect key events therein.
Finally!
The Morning which Breaks (all roughly 640 pages of it) has been submitted and is in review at Amazon. We will update here as soon as it goes live!
May 11, 2014
Here it is: a Date!
We finally have a date. Since we can’t predict Amazon’s approval cycle (though we hope and expect it will be quick), it is the date we will submit MWB for publication, not the date it will actually go live on Amazon. That date is: no later than Memorial Day weekend. The pacing factors right now… Continue reading...
May 8, 2014
Two-minute Warning
. . . If you are a tortoise, and not a hare. Which is our way of saying that we’d like to thank all the good folks who offered to beta read MWB for us. We have already gotten much excellent feedback that will make for a stronger book, and we are awaiting some final… Continue reading...
April 29, 2014
The moment you’ve all been waiting for!
The draft of The Morning Which Breaks is (finally!) ready for beta read and we are looking for beta readers! A few notes: MWB is long! (Approximately 510 paperback pages.) We prefer beta readers who have read the first book in the series (Alecto) and liked it, at least a somewhat. (If you didn’t like… Continue reading...
April 28, 2014
Bottom of the Ninth
The draft of MWB will be ready very shortly! Accordingly, per our agreement with Amazon, we have removed the pre-press chapters today. So yes, this blog will look a little empty for a bit. Never fear, once MWB is published, you can watch this space for info on the progress of the third novel the… Continue reading...
March 20, 2014
Somewhere a Clock Ticks
I don’t know if anyone beside myself recalls “Around the World in 80 Days”, the Jules Verne novel made into a rather charming movie with David Niven as the protagonist: a British eccentric named Fogg with a decided fondness (nowadays we would say an obsession) for clocks, who nevertheless manages to get the girl in… Continue reading...
March 16, 2014
A New Glossary
As we mentioned previously, we have a new glossary available. It is greatly expanded from the current version, adding some organizational details and bits of key history along with technical descriptions and definitions of terms, and a list of personalities that have appeared in the series so far. Right now there are almost 250 entries… Continue reading...
March 14, 2014
Our Minority Report #2
So what have we been up to since our last update? Mainly contracting bronchitis and trying to recover from it. Other than that, where are we on The Morning Which Breaks? Well, we did get Part 1 back from its first proofreading pass. We sent Part 3 to some additional alpha readers for suggestions and… Continue reading...
