Free! Cheap! New! Amazon Promos for Books 1-5

Posted on March 25, 2020 by

Tired of watching TV and surfing the internet? Read a book!

Bored of all your old books? Read a new one!

Looking for an escape from reality’s troubles? Immerse yourself in an imaginary world with entirely imaginary concerns!

Seriously though, it took me what feels like an age, but Book 5 is now out.  To celebrate somewhat haphazardly, I will be running some Free and Discount Day promos through Amazon.  I say haphazardly because I ran an entirely random promo a month or so ago, not thinking I would be ready to release the book any time soon — so two of the three discounts are for Amazon.co.uk only, not Amazon.com.  Alas for my lack of foresight.

Okay!  Here’s the breakdown.

Book 1, The Light of Kerrindryr, will be free from March 25-29 for all markets.

Book 2, The Splintered Eye, is on discount from March 25-April 1 for both the US and UK markets.

Book 3, The Living Throne, is on discount from March 25-April 1 on just the UK market (but go check it out if you’re in the US, too!)

Book 4, The Drowning Dark, is likewise on discount from March 25-April 1 on just the UK market.

Finally, Book 5, The Bloodied Army, is too new to be eligible for discounts.  Like, brand new.  Fresh and warm and new-book-smelling, if only through your digital screen.

It seems I have no control over promotions for other markets, so I apologize in that regard.  I will be running a better US promo this summer (when my Amazon timers reset), so look forward to that!

The sixth-and-final book is still being written, but at the moment it’s comfortably on track.  So!  Please enjoy the free-and-cheap stuff as you like, while I work on making more.

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Book 5: The Bloodied Army — Published!

Posted on March 20, 2020 by

As of right now, The Bloodied Army (Book 5 of the War of Memory Cycle) is available on Amazon as an ebook!  It’s wearing its temporary cover for now, and I don’t have an ETA for when it will receive its full cover or a print version.

About the series: The War of Memory Cycle is a post-medieval high-magic multicultural dark fantasy, with touches of both science fiction and horror.  (Yay horror!)  It’s continuing through its ‘epic’ phase, with the gods now directly meddling in affairs.  It includes strong themes of identity, trauma, imperialism, religious conflict, LGBTQIA, and some serious body horror.  I enjoy writing that last part maybe a bit too much.

If you haven’t read any but think you might be interested, check out the pages for Book 1 (The Light of Kerrindryr), Book 2 (The Splintered Eye), Book 3 (The Living Throne), and Book 4 (The Drowning Dark)!  There will also be some free/discount days for the early books coming very soon.

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Culture Composites: Averogne

Posted on February 21, 2020 by

Second-to-last of the Imperial provinces and protectorates is this quiet little place, sited in the shadow of the Rift and a vassal of the Empire for decades before the Empire invaded any other western territory.  Averogne yielded easily to the Empire’s advances and accepted its troops without fuss, though it refused to cut down any of its woodlands to build garrisons.  It was happy to sell wood to the Empire, however, and let Imperial troops man the protectorate’s current defenses.

And maybe marry into the population.

Or disappear into the woods.

Many invaders have disappeared into the Averognan woods.

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Culture Composites: Muria

Posted on January 30, 2020 by

Continuing the Culture Composites series, this will be a short one!  And require the use of a rather haphazard map.  The target this time is Muria, the hidden homeland of the silver elementals (or Muriae) and their Primordial, Brancir.  Muria can be thought of as an autonomous zone within the protectorate of Kerrindryr, existing mostly underground but also encompassing the external area of one particular large mountain — Ratrangas Garta, or Howling Spire.  The human city at its base, Thul Rei Tenko, is a part of Kerrindryr but considered under the protection of the Muriae, and is known to have a certain amount of infiltration from the Silver Folk.

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Culture Composites: Darronwy

Posted on January 18, 2020 by

Six years later, I return to the Culture Composites series!  I’d always planned to make more, I just…never did.

With this installment, we’re only one step away from finishing up all the Risen Phoenix Empire’s vassal provinces and protectorates.  Darronwy joins Riddian, Trivestes, Wyndon, Amandon, Corvia, and Haaraka, all located in the Imperial Heartlands (even if they don’t agree that they belong), plus the conquered lands of Illane and Kerrindryr.  Beyond the Rift with the latter two, Jernizan is the only free land shown so far, but it won’t be the last.  (I swear!)

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Best Reads 2019

Posted on December 25, 2019 by

Since I failed to do a Best Reads for 2018, I am making a point to do one this year!  Arghh!  It’s probably been clear from my minimal posting that doing blog-related things is at the bottom of my list right now — which I wish wasn’t so, since I’ve enjoyed this.  I just haven’t had the brain-space to devote to it.  I hope to get back to it once I have the full rough draft of Book 6 hammered out and can stress a bit less.

Anyway!  Since I skipped last year, I’ll add a few highlights from it, since some of them (series- or author-wise) do continue onto this year’s list.  However, this was also the year where I saw some of my previously-favorite series, both old and new, trail off into things I didn’t like so much.  I don’t really want to go into what I didn’t like and why, just to note this background feeling of dissatisfaction with a lot of the authors I used to favor.

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General Update: September

Posted on September 30, 2019 by

I can’t really call them Book 5 updates anymore, when nothing about Book 5 is moving.  Sadface.  Hopefully soon, though.

September has been trash for progress, due to a few Day Job issues but also a grand fun time with a pool leak.  A leak repair guy is out there right now, getting started on what should be a 2-3 day affair, which pretty much smashes my writing week.  I know, fragile artist types, but I can’t concentrate when there are other people around.  I feel like it’s been that way for the whole month.

Regardless, I’m wrapping up chapter 16 of the Book 6 rough draft now (well, probably Thursday v_v).  Hopefully October will be more productive, but there will be at least one Day Job intrusion.  Not sure now whether I can finish the draft in this calendar year, but since all my deadlines are self-imposed, I suppose it’s fine.  My alpha reader seems to be enjoying the draft well enough, though I have a lot of work to do, both in removing and adding material.  Honestly, right now I’m just going through my copious notes and trying to hit all the points brought up by them.  Turning all of that into a polished story with the right character and plot beats is the big job.

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