Starting ICoS? Wait a little longer...
If you're interested in starting In the Company of Shadows, you might want to wait a month or two. We're in the middle of editing and are mostly done with Evenfall. We will re-release Evenfall (still for free) in ebook format when done. We're cutting out about 1/3 of the word count-- rest assured that this isn't taking out anything significant to the plot. Actually, most of it is unnecessary narration or repetitive wording-- and some of it is improving upon existing scenes.
After Evenfall is done, we'll be moving on to the rest of the series. But we'll probably release Evenfall as soon as we can since it's the most egregious.
The books will be available here and at our download site, www.inthecompanyofshadows.com
Keep in mind-- we are editing this ourselves this time around. It will NOT be professionally edited, it will just be a lot cleaner than it was before.
However, if we ever self-publish this (our plan eventually) we will get it professionally edited.
TIMELINE?
Hopefully Evenfall will be re-released in the next month or so. The post-Fade anthology, 1/27, also should be available in the next month or so.
*****ALERT ALERT ALERT******
BELOW EXAMPLES CONTAIN SPOILERS!!! I tried to use the spoiler tag but they don't work on blog posts for some reason. Skip past the below pics if need be.
If you want a visual of what I mean about tightening up the story, here are two screenshots Santino and I recently took:
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After Evenfall is done, we'll be moving on to the rest of the series. But we'll probably release Evenfall as soon as we can since it's the most egregious.
The books will be available here and at our download site, www.inthecompanyofshadows.com
Keep in mind-- we are editing this ourselves this time around. It will NOT be professionally edited, it will just be a lot cleaner than it was before.
However, if we ever self-publish this (our plan eventually) we will get it professionally edited.
TIMELINE?
Hopefully Evenfall will be re-released in the next month or so. The post-Fade anthology, 1/27, also should be available in the next month or so.
*****ALERT ALERT ALERT******
BELOW EXAMPLES CONTAIN SPOILERS!!! I tried to use the spoiler tag but they don't work on blog posts for some reason. Skip past the below pics if need be.
If you want a visual of what I mean about tightening up the story, here are two screenshots Santino and I recently took:
(click here for fullview)
and
(click here for fullview)
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Thanks! Yeah we're focusing a lot on the adverbs and just all the unnecessary words. And yeah, the wall of text is diminished some too lol There are two places in particular where we removed pages of text that didn't even need to be there.
The most important thing, though, in my opinion, is that when you look at the page your brain doesn't go "Oh my god so much text what are you even--???"
I'll definitely give this another read when you re-release it :)