Jason Denzel's Blog, page 2

Road Trip to Ilvermorny

I’ve got a new post up on Tor.com regarding my recent trip to Massachusetts and Mount Greylock. According to J.K. Rowling, Greylock’s summit is the home to Ilvermorny, the American magical school for witches and wizards. If you’re interested, check out the report , as well as these few bonus photos from the trip.

Spectre Update

Here’s a copy of the email I sent to all the Spectre Kickstarter backers. I’ll continue to mirror those here on my website.

Hi everyone,

I realize it’s been over a year since our last project update. A lot of has happened and I’d like to bring you up to date. Good news! It’s been a long run, but the end is within sight. Despite the hurdles, setbacks, and frustrating periods, we’ve made some solid progress on the Spectre short film. It’s still not complete, but our current VFX artist has mad...

MYSTIC award Eligibility

In case you didn’t know, my debut novel, MYSTIC, makes me eligible for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer this year. This is a prestigious award given out each year at WorldCon along with the Hugo Awards, and is selected by the convention’s members.

If you enjoyed MYSTIC, and you are a Hugo nominator, I’d appreciate your consideration for this award.

To become a Hugo Voter, you can sign up for a WorldCon Membership, including the option to be a Supporting Member who votes online...

Book Tour Wrap-Up

I had the delightful opportunity to go on a ten day book tour with Harriet Mcdougall, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons to promote Mystic and The Wheel of Time Companion. The trip was inspiring and empowering. Despite the crazy schedule I managed to sleep well, eat (mostly) healthy, and do some sight seeing. I also made a point to enjoy a few local pubs, usually with Alan along with me.

Thank you to everyone who came out to our events, purchased a book, or shared their support in any way.

Here...

Thoughts on Mystic’s release

It’s been a busy month since Mystic was released in early November. Thank you to everyone who’s purchased the book, read it, reviewed, came to a book signing event, or helped spread the word in any way. It’s been an incredible experience, but mostly I’m delighted to have the opportunity to share this book with you.

Reminder: If you enjoyed reading Mystic, send me an email and I’ll send you some special Bonus Content containing the deleted prologue from the book, as well as a sample chapter fr...

Mystic Chapters 1 – 3

If you want to see what all the hype is about, Tor.com has posted first two three chapters of MYSTIC online for free. I’m delighted that they’ve done so, so that anybody can get a taste of what the book’s about.

There’s only 18 chapters in the book, so essentially you’re getting 1/9 1/6 of the novel for free. Not a bad deal!

Get them here: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3.

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3

Also, coming soon: a full chapter that was cut from the novel. I’ll elaborate on that when...

Mystic Chapters 1 and 2

If you want to see what all the hype is about, Tor.com has posted first two chapters of MYSTIC online for free. I’m delighted that they’ve done so, so that anybody can get a taste of what the book’s about.

There’s only 18 chapters in the book, so essentially you’re getting 1/9 of the novel for free. Not a bad deal!

Get them here: Chapter 1, Chapter 2.

Chapter 1 Chapter 2

Also, coming next month: a full chapter that was cut from the novel. I’ll elaborate on that when it’s released, but that’s...

Mystic Book Tour

I’m delighted to announce that my publisher, Tor Books, is sending me on a national book tour to help promote Mystic, as well as The Wheel of Time Companion. Being asked to go on a WoT book tour is a crazy dream I couldn’t have imagined a few years ago, and I’m doubly thrilled that they are willing to help push awareness of my debut novel.

Here are the dates and locations:

Nov 3 – Mount Pleasant, South Carolina /Barnes and Noble (Also joined by Michael Livingston / The Shards of Heaven) , 7:...

ARCS

My publisher, Tor Books, printed early review copies of Mystic. These “ARCS” (Advanced Reading Copies) contain a pre-copyedited version of the book that will be sent to various review sites, bloggers, trade magazines, lucky friends, or contest winners. Tor will send them out, as will my agent, and probably me directly.

Here are some photos of the box I received, which, yes, was pretty much one of the most awesome things ever:

As a reminder, the book will be released November 3rd in ha...

Making the Mystic Book cover

One of the most exciting parts aboutbeing a new writer is getting to see the cover artwork for your first book.Tor Books has an outstanding art department that I’ve had the privilege of working with for many years. So I knew from the beginning that it was going to be a fun experience to see what they came up with.

Part 1: Concept

It’s very rare that an author of a traditionally published book gets to determine their book cover. I was fortunate in thatmy editor asked for my input on what I’d l...