Evenfall 3.0 by 2014, and Ais author blog

Evenfall v3.0 is officially in the works. We are in the process of editing Evenfall to make it more in line with the other books and to address some of the things we'd like to streamline.

When Evenfall is finished, we'll move on to editing the rest of the series.

When will it be done?
Evenfall will (hopefully) be done by New Year's 2014. Assuming our schedules don't go crazy in the meantime. And we can rock it like it's 1999 on the designated editing weekends. We'll be sure to let everyone know if we rock it closer to the 1890's and get pushed back on the timeline.

We don't have dates for the other books.

Will it still be free?
Yep :)

Will anything else change?
Indeed it will. As pretty much any reader of In the Company of Shadows/ICoS has probably noticed, the books are long. So in the process of editing the books, we will also reformat each book into two volumes. This will make each volume closer to a normal length book for easier reading pleasure. (And maybe help some of you get more sleep in the initial reading of the series. Can you convince yourself more easily in the middle of the night NOT to go to the next volume the way it never seems to work not going to the next chapter? Only time will tell ;p)

Right now the plan is it would still say which book it is.

For instance, Evenfall Volume 1: WORDS, Evenfall Volume 2: We Has Them.

(The titles will, of course, not be those. Probably. I'm about 60% certain on that.)

But what about publishing?
From the start, it's always been important to both of us that ICoS remain free. Because of that, we only want to switch to a new model when we both feel comfortable with it. Which, for both of us, equates to being able to afford professional editing as would occur in an official publishing situation.

We are keeping the idea of publishing it open because readers have asked for that. We apologize for the delay in being able to provide you with that, but when the time comes we want to be able to give you the highest quality possible for your money.

Which isn't to say that the series sucks now or that we won't be putting a lot of effort into editing and streamlining it ourselves to the best of our ability. It's just to say that we'd like to get some professionals to side-eye it pretty hard as well, so it can be as close to perfect in our eyes as it will ever get.

Any other important news?
You're awesome. Just in case you didn't know.

Oh yeah, and to tide you over in the meantime, I started that author blog dealie I was talking about the other week. So far I only have information from ICoS up but eventually it will expand to other stories and excerpts I'll be working on as well.

Find it for your viewing pleasure at The Inner Workings of An Ais (easily found at aisness.wordpress.com). You can start at the welcome post or the about page for an explanation. I tried to find a design that was mobile-friendly. It seemed to load decently on my phone so hopefully it will on yours also.

Incidentally, if there's information you're curious about that you don't see there and don't remember seeing elsewhere, let me know. I'll see if it's something I can post.

Please remember to keep any spoilers behind a spoiler tag just in case. Thanks for being lovely :)