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If you'd like to meet the main character of this story before reading on, then check out this blog:http://www.jhockley.com/epic-fantasy/...
It's a short interview I conducted with the character, which was quite good fun.
Chapter two (or actually chapter one) is due out on Thursday.
And chapter three (fourth instalment of the novella) is up on the website:http://www.jhockley.com/epic-fantasy/...
Oh dear - I've just realised that a website technical fail means that the fifth instalment failed to post last week! Whoops - and sorry to anyone who's actually been following this.I'll push the schedule out a week and get this posted this week instead.
Double fail on my part. Part 5 is now live (and has been for over a week!) here:http://www.jhockley.com/epic-fantasy/...
... And as if by magic, here is part 6! And that's the end of the "micro-story" in the story. Now we just need to wrap-up the wrapper story next week. Thanks!http://www.jhockley.com/epic-fantasy/...
Hurrah - back on track, and I've managed to update this feed on time too! Part 7 is available here:http://www.jhockley.com/epic-fantasy/...
Only one part to go, and that's an Epilogue, so hopefully we're getting somewhere satisfactory. Objections welcome!
Hooray - and we're done:http://www.jhockley.com/epic-fantasy/...
Now there's just time to do a final polish before we put it out into the big bad online e-book world. I hope you enjoyed.
And yes, it is a bit open ended - sorry about that. The story continues in Fear's Union.
Thanks so much for reading!
Hi James,I did this with my novel too a couple of years ago. It was a good experience and certainly kept me going when friends were prodding me to write the next chapter! Hope you got on well with it too and it drummed up some interest?!
Matty
Hi Matty - yeah, drummed up a bit of interest. I didn't have people prodding me for the next chapter though!This was quite a short book, but I'm thinking of blogging a whole novel next year. There are 51 chapters, so add the first chapter of the sequel, and that maps quite nicely to 52 weeks in the year!
What do you think?
Why do this I hear you ask? Well, the reasons are twofold:
1. raise awareness; and
2. gather feedback from interested readers and integrate that feedback where possible.
So, if you're stuck for your regular fix of epic fantasy, then look no further than my bog; and I'll also be blogging some other fun and related stuff too, just in case the novella wasn't enough.
A link to the blog can be found here: http://www.jhockley.com/epic-fantasy/...
Or you can find the blog on my author page: James Hockley
And make sure to get in contact if you have any questions / feedback.
Enjoy!