Progress Report

Progress Report

So the blog tour is over and we have received the figures for the online anthology downloads. We were very excited to see how many people actually wanted to read it! After just over three months we’ve had almost 20,000 downloads. Wow.

The end: Visions of Apocalypse (TEVA) also has a 3.6/5 rating on Amazon. Just to put that into perspective: George. RR Martins novel, A Dance With Dragons, has a 3.3/5 rating. Not to say TEVA is better than Martins work in anyway, but we still found that quite interesting. People probably expect a lot less from free books, so we’re definitely being marked ‘kindly.’

And on to other matters: we just finished writing the final 22,000 words we needed to complete the first novel. How many times we’ve written our ‘last chapters’ we can’t even count. But, we’re finally ready to accept the fact that the storyline has run it’s course and laid out the foundations for the rest of the series.

Before we move onto editing, Swords of Winter, we’re going to be writing a short story for the Bristol Short Story Prize. We’ve plotted a story line that we know surpasses, Sacrifice, from the last contest. This being an open genre contest has allowed us more creative freedom. Our fingers are crossed in hopes we’ll place highly, but we’re sure there will be thousands of entries from a lot of great writers.

Garrett and Luke