Rob’s Update: Your Thirst Will Pass
Greetings all
I’m sorry. I’ve been so busy writing, I completely lost track of days. I somehow lost Wednesday completely.
Obviously, the big news this past week was the great release of Songs of Valor. It got an orange tag almost out of the bat. Many thanks to our readers who made it number one within four hours.
If you’re curious what’s in Songs of Valor, you can go to my blog post where I gave story sketches. You can find that here: https://robhowell.org/blog/?p=2268.
Also, the great news is that I had a great week of writing in The Ravening of Sorrows. Over 10k new words, about a third of the early stuff edited, and a bunch of formatting and cleaning up.
Progress made in some editing too.
And I started a new project yesterday that we’ll be talking about soon. It won’t be a ton of work, but it promises to be a lot of fun and very productive.
So a great week of productivity, even if I can’t look at a calendar.
What I’m Listening To
Mark Stallings showed me there’s a linguistics Youtube. Currently, I’m listening to a history of the Ainu language. Yeah, because I get distracted easily. Perfect for a week where I forgot what day is what. I’ll remember Mark in my upcoming curses, believe me.
Quote of the Week
As I’m sure you all know, today is the 670th anniversary of the Combat of the Thirty. You remember, that time when French and English knights, bored with the progress of the Hundred Years War, decided to halt the war to have a fight between thirty prestigious knights and squires on a side.
Therefore, today’s quote is just as obvious. It’s Geoffroy du Bois giving Jean de Beaumanoir some advice after Beaumanoir had been wounded in the fight.
“Drink your blood, Beaumanoir, your thirst will pass”
― Geoffroy du Bois
New Mythology Works in Progress
Deadline: 31 July
Words: 7k-10k
Manuscript: In .doc or .docx file format, Times New Roman, 12pt, 1.5 spaced
Send To: rob@chriskennedypublishing.com
Prompt: Write a fantasy story involving a beast or monster. While the story can include elements of horror, it should not be a horror story; it should be a fantasy and lean toward the heroic. Feel free to make the beast or monster your protagonist, but if not, the creature must be a central figure, (like Grendel in Beowulf).
As mentioned, we will choose the top four stories out of those submitted to add to the anthology. This is especially aimed at newer authors, though authors of any experience can enter.
Just Released: 1 March: The Watchers at War (Book 3 of the Watchers of Moniah Series by Barbara V. Evers)Today: Songs of Valor (Book 2 of the Libri Valoris anthologies with Larry Correia, David Weber, Glen Cook, Dave Butler, and Sarah Hoyt). You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08Z7Z3KT112 April: Accepted (Book 2 of the Balance of Kerr series by Kevin Steverson.21 May: Across the Endless Ocean (Book 1 of the Endless Ocean series by G. Scott Huggins)Rob’s Works in Progress
The Ravening of Wolves (81,722)Rick Blaine (8,845)CB (8,418)Cynewulf (8,642)Gato (2,312)Upcoming Events
FantaSci, 21-23 May, Durham, NChttps://fantasci.rocks/LibertyCon, 27-27 June, Chattanooga, TN
https://libertycon.org/DragonCon, 2-6 September, Atlanta, GA
https://www.dragoncon.org/20BooksTo50K, 8-12 November, Las Vegas, NV
http://20booksvegas.com/
New Releases
We’ll start with last week’s Sundown by Kacey Ezell. It’s another addition to Charles Gannon’s Caine Riordan universe. You can find it here on the newly updated Chris Kennedy Publishing website: https://chriskennedypublishing.com/book/sundown/.
It was released at the same time as Songs of Valor (Book 2 of the Libri Valoris anthologies with Larry Correia, David Weber, Glen Cook, Dave Butler, and Sarah Hoyt). You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08Z7Z3KT1.
Because I dallied, that means we get an extra release. You also get David Hallquist’s Guardian. You can find it here: https://chriskennedypublishing.com/book/guardian/.
Today’s Weight: 340.0
Updated Word Count: 12,988
Shijuren Wiki: 725 entries
Let me know if you have any suggestions on the website, this email, or cool story ideas at rob@robhowell.org. Especially let me know of suggestions you have for the Spotlight section.
Have a great week, everyone.
Rob HowellAuthor of the Shijuren-series of novels
Website: www.robhowell.orgBlog: www.robhowell.org/blogShijuren Wiki: https://shijuren.org/tiki-index.phpFacebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/robhowell.org/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rhodri2112Currently Available WorksShijuren A Lake Most Deep (Edward, Book 1) The Eyes of a Doll (Edward, Book 2) Where Now the Rider (Edward, Book 3) I Am a Wondrous Thing (The Kreisens, Book 1) Brief Is My Flame (The Kreisens, Book 2) None Call Me Mother (The Kreisens, Book 3)“What’s in a Name” in When Valor Must Hold (An Edward prequel story)“An Oath’s Other Edge” in Dragons and Dribbles : A Corner Scribblers Flash Collection w/ guest author, Rob Howell
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