Cover Art for The Assassin's Curse (a Sicarius and Amaranthe short story)

I've been writing and writing since the beginning of NaNoWriMo in November, and I do believe it's time to take a break and edit something. I have the cover art back for a 12,000-word short story I wrote over Halloween, and my wonderful beta readers have sent back some notes, so I'm going to work on finishing that up this weekend. I'll still have to send it off to an editor, but I should be able to get it out within a couple of weeks.

The Assassin's Curse is a stand alone story that will — I hope! — tide Sicarius-and-Amaranthe fans over until Book 4 comes out (I'm still working on the first draft of EE4, but I think I'll be able to get it out by May). For those who have been waiting patiently for the next Flash Gold story, I'll be editing that before long too.

Here's a sneak peek of the cover art for the short story. As I mentioned, I wrote it the week of Halloween, and it's got that kind of theme.

 

By the way, my plan is to start out selling the short story for 99 cents so that I can recoup the costs of cover art and editing, but it'll probably end up being a freebie eventually. If you'd like to get it for free right away, please sign up for my newsletter if you haven't already (the sign-up form is in the menu on the right). I'll send out a Smashwords coupon as soon as the story is up over there (you can download file formats for any e-reader at Smashwords).

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