Queer Fantasy and Weird Tales for the People
Jacob Banks, “Chainsmoking”
Happy Monday!
Have you gotten your copy of Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea yet? I’m so excited for you to be able to read it! Once you do, you can help it reach more readers by leaving a review and telling your friends about it.
The latest chapter of Journey to the Water will be up here on Wednesday, and I’ll be on Twitch tonight and Thursday night playing some games.
I appreciate you! Have an excellent week.
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.
Wendy Melvoin, “Carnivàle Main Title Theme”
It’s Monday again! Welcome.
In case you missed it, Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea released on Friday! It’s been three or four months of non-stop work, not to mention all the time I spent writing the thing, so I’m very excited to share it with you.
You can purchase it from these handy links:
Barnes & Noble (ebook and paperback) It says large print, but it’s the standard edition paperback. I am working on fixing it.
If you want to read the first chapter before making a decision, you can do so here.
The earlier, serialized version will remain up on the blog, but I highly recommend buying the book, as it’s far more polished and of better quality, in addition to being easier to read in your preferred medium.
Other stuff happening this week:
There will be a new chapter of Journey to the Water up on Patreon! My Patreon is only $3 a month, and it gives you access to serial chapters a week early, plus Patreon livestreams and an exclusive project or two that I will be announcing in the next couple of weeks.
I’ll be on Twitch tonight and Thursday night with the Tea and Sidequests channel.
I will also be doing a minor blog remodel, so you may see some things move around. My goal is accessibility and readability, so if there’s anything I can do to make your blog experience easier, please let me know! Comments are open on almost every post.
Thanks for being here! Have an excellent week.
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!
Poe, “Haunted”
It’s Monday again.
This is the week Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea launches! Right now, I’m still waiting for my files to finish processing. Once that happens, I should be able to assemble purchasing links and possibly paperback preorders. Thank you for bearing with me as I figure out this process.
I’m also having a Virtual Launch Party on Friday at 6pm (US Central)! It will be a YouTube livestream, and I’ll have the link for that available once we go live, so keep an eye out on Friday.
I am juggling how much time promotional stuff for the launch is going to take, so I may have the next chapter of Journey to the Water up on Patreon this week. If not, it’ll be up next week and we’ll be back to our regular schedule of chapters.
Once Beyond the Frost-Cold Sea is out into the world, I’ll start Part Two of The Book of the New Moon Door! It will alternate with Journey to the Water, first on Patreon and then here on the blog. I’m also looking to start a Patreon-exclusive project soon, so stay tuned.
I appreciate you! Have an excellent week.
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”
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