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No living person had touched that lake since the volcano had last awoken an age ago. I may have been the first to see it in a hundred years.
Journey to the Water Chapter VIII
The latest chapter of Journey to the Water is now available on Patreon! This is the sequel to Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea, and Patreon subscribers get chapters a full week early, plus some other good stuff.
After losing everything in a foolhardy quest to slay a sea serpent, Eske of the Bear Clan journeys across the world to the holy city of Phyreios. There, he meets warriors from faraway lands, a rebel leader with the courage to defy the gods, and a gentle healer whose dreams foretell a great calamity.
While at first Eske seeks only an opportunity to test his strength and a distraction from his grief, he soon becomes entangled in a clash of gods and monsters that will change the fate of Phyreios-and the world-forever.
Inspired by Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian and Ursula LeGuin’s Earthsea novels, Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea is an epic tale of love, loyalty, rebellion, and ruin.
Barnes & Noble (ebook and paperback) It says large print, but it’s the normal paperback.
If you want to order the paperback directly from me (good for bulk orders, and you’ll get a significant discount), please fill out this form, and I’ll be in contact with you within the next 24 hours:
All my files are approved and we are back on track! Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea will release tomorrow (Friday) as planned!
I’ll be back tomorrow with all the links you will need to purchase your preferred format, as well as a link to my Virtual Launch party, which will be 6pm tomorrow (US Central time).
Thank you for being with me on this adventure! I’m so excited to share this story with you again.
In which the tale begins.
Listen. Let me tell you a story.
I will tell you of my journey, from the ocean at the other edge of the world to the mountain of iron, beneath which slept a horror of an age long past.
I will tell you of the daughter of the stargazer, who found me on the northern wastes at the end of my long winter.
I will tell you of those who dared to defy the seven gods of the citadel.
And I will tell you of the barefoot prophet, for the man who now sits on the throne of Phyreios is not the same as the one who walked among its people in the days before the cataclysm.
Continue reading “Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea Chapter I (Free Preview)”THREE DAYS, YOU GUYS
IngramSpark is still processing my files. Based on their three-business-day turnaround, everything should be ready tomorrow. That means that tomorrow (Wednesday), I *should* have a way to preorder the book.
Thank you so much for bearing with me on this endeavor.
I have a Facebook author page as of about an hour ago, if you’d like to follow it. I’ve also updated the widgets in the bottom left corner of the blog (under “Find Me Elsewhere”).
No new chapter this week–sorry! We’ll be back to our regular posting schedule next week.
I’ll be back later this week with more information on buying the book (a Real Book! that you can hold in your hands or e-reader!) and about my Virtual Launch Party on Friday.
I appreciate you!
All the files are uploaded!
IngramSpark takes three business days to process everything. I was hoping to have preorders open today–please bear with me, I’m doing this for the first time–but I have to wait at least until it’s done processing (by this estimate, Tuesday or Wednesday). I’ll let you know as soon as I have an update.
Even if I don’t manage to get preorders working, the book will release in SEVEN DAYS: January 28! I’m planning a virtual launch party, and I’ll have more information about that on Monday.
I’m so excited! Thanks for being here for this process.
My first tasks were menial ones: mending a roof, hauling water from a spring in the forest, and helping Kala reset her fish traps. The work was no great effort, though my eyes wandered every moment to the stone edifice behind the huts. I assumed, with no stretch of the imagination, that this was the temple, and when my work was done, I would enter it, and perhaps catch a glimpse of my beloved for the first time since he was stolen from me.
His god had promised me he would be safe. I would only believe it once I saw him—I had lost my faith in gods. I hoped that the god of this island, to whom the grandmothers paid homage, would prove more worthy of trust.
Continue reading “Journey to the Water Chapter VII: The Slope of Ewandar”The good news is that I have a real cover, though as you can see, IngramSpark isn’t allowing any of my good fonts. Here is an updated cover reveal. It took me SEVERAL DAYS to get the background images to upload at a high enough resolution. The last paragraph on the back cover (left) is new also.
Further good news: my January 28th release date is a go! There should be a way to preorder the paperbacks before then. I’ll let you know as soon as I figure it out.
The bad news: In order to make literally any money off of any retail sales (and not owe them money for each book published), I have to set the paperback price at $14.99 and the ebooks at $3.99. These are pretty average prices for major retailers, but since you already have access to a free version, I wanted to make them cheaper. It just didn’t work out, and I’m sorry. There may be a way for me to give you a discount if you buy copies directly from the printer, where the retailer doesn’t take their (ENORMOUS) cut. I will do some more digging in the next week and come back with anything I find.
Thanks for sticking with me! I should have another update next week.
ETA: Also, the book is 312 pages long, including all the front material (table of contents and such) and some bonus content in the back! A nice, quick little read.
I had lost my faith in gods. I hoped the god of this island, to whom the grandmothers paid homage, would prove more worthy of my trust.
Journey to the Water Chapter VII
The latest chapter of Journey to the Water is now available on Patreon!
Here is where things stand as of today (Saturday 1/8):
I’m going to be publishing through IngramSpark, which will allow me to get the book out to a wide variety of retailers.
There will be both ebooks and paperbacks available.
I am about a third of the way done with the last round of edits before my manuscript gets uploaded to IngramSpark’s book building program.
The cover design may change slightly depending on what said book building program allows me to do. If so, I’ll show you all the new design.
I am aiming for paperback preorders to open on Friday the 21st, and the book to release a week later on the 28th.
That’s it for now! Thanks for sticking with me.
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