The Store

Posted on 7 October 2011 | No responses

Meister of the Secret Chapter Four: Tools

So, it is now official-like. You can purchase for the low low price of $2.99 the compiled Revenant eBook. You can access the store via the link up top or the ugly link over in the side bar. I put that there hoping it would make April’s brain explode in the ugly and then she’d graphic art me up a good one. You can also use this link.

As of this posting, it is only available on Amazon Kindle, but hopefully sometime next week it will be up on the Nook “PubIt” store as well. A few highlights of the compiled eBook:

• It contains a new Bonus Chapter: “Lessons of Gorlido” that takes place years before the current action and is no plot-essential, but gives you some back story on one of the characters.

• The new chapter has two whole new panels of art.

• The book is edited! Not professionally, but I went through all the chapters again and re-read them and corrected a handful of continuity mistakes and I caught quite a few typos I made, including the most embarrassing Winch/Wench goof. There are no major changes, though, so don’t expect me to reference something in Meister of the Secret that you haven’t been able to read in the online version of Revenant.

• Both Kindle and Nook versions are DRM free. I mean, I already offered all this stuff up for free, right? As I see it, this is like you donating to me.

I have some other “give me money” ideas working right now, including a way to sell high-res prints of the art and a dead-tree version of the book. I’ll keep you posted.

Tags: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, eBook, ePub, Kindle, mobi, Nook, store
Categories: Admin Blog

The Horrifying Lure of the Deep

Posted on 30 September 2011 | 3 responses

Meister of the Secret Chapter Three.

All around is darkness, and who knows what lies in it. Your high power flashlight barely penetrates the gloom, and you could swear you see something moving. Life should not be here, yet somehow, it is. Where are you? Millions of miles away in the cold depths of space? A thousand miles lost in a massive, dank, lifeless cavern? No, you are merely a few miles away from the normal. You are on the ocean floor.

Why is it that nearly a quarter million miles away (the surface of the moon) is more acceptable and less terrifying than five miles below the water? Why does the claustrophobia of a deep-sea submarine weigh in more than the endless vacuum of space that has honestly less material between you and it? And why can we talk about putting astronauts on the surface of Mars as a feasible, decade-attainable goal, but setting up a space-station like research facility or mining/living operation even a few miles down in the ocean is still a complete idea of science fiction? It isn’t just because we don’t want Cthulhu to eat us.

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Tags: Cthulhu, Horror, John Wyndham, Lovecraft, The Kraken Awakes, weird tales
Categories: Writing

Facebook

Posted on 23 September 2011 | No responses

Chapter Two: To Do Right

So, Facebook has been in the news lately. Granted, this social network isn’t exactly about writing, but I’ve never been too hard and fast on this being exclusively a blog about writing. I will make a tangent somewhere along the way, I promise. In fact, I’ll make it at the very beginning. Facebook was stopping me from writing Wednesday night, and I turned it off, along with Twitter, Google+, and even my email. The only thing I kept open was AIM/MSN, and no one bothered me there. Suddenly, my writer’s block vanished and 1500 words appeared on my screen. It was magical. So, was I just distracted? Well, yeah, but there is more I want to say. Below the break.

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Tags: distraction, Facebook, Google+, overcoming writer's block, Twitter, writer's block
Categories: Writing

Meister of the Secret

Posted on 16 September 2011 | No responses

And here we go again: Volume Two is launched! Remember to read it all, prologue and chapter one put up today. Speaking on that, a good number of people seemed to miss the epilogue of Volume One, if my hit count is anything to go by. If you missed it, that link is to it (and the next button will take you through the cover of Volume One, then the cover of Volume Two, then to the Prologue of Volume Two). To my new readers, you will probably want to start there.

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Tags: Free, Illustrated, Meister of the Secret, serial novel, Site Revamp, Steampunk, Tijervyn
Categories: Writing

One Week Delay, Again

Posted on 9 September 2011 | 2 responses

So, I thought I had given myself enough time, and while the product, that is to say, the prologue, first chapter, and associated art for Meister of the Secret is ready, I have a bunch of other legwork that is not, and some personal life stuff has kind of eaten up my time so that I couldn’t have it ready for today. So, next week, Volume 2 launches. In the meantime, have the first chapter of a novel I was working on a while ago and sat down. I have about 20k written in it, but I didn’t really like the feel of where it had been going since about 10k, and put it down to try to come back to later. It is a bit of a post-modern fantasy, told form the point of view of both the mentor character and the naïve hero (or in this case, heroine.)

Rust on the Blade, by Richard Fife: Chapter One.

Tags: delay, post-modern fantasy, Short Fiction, Tijervyn
Categories: Short Fictions Writing

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