Memories of the Reborn Audiobook now live!

Spellheart book 3, Memories of the Reborn is now available on audio!

 

Get it here!

(I'm aware that it's mistakenly labeled Book 4 of the Spellheart series instead of Book 3. It is book 3, and I've contacted Tantor to fix it and they said they will do so as soon as possible. Thank you to the person who pointed it out.)

 

Book 4, Legacy of Vanished Friends, will be released on 7/13/2021 on audio.

 

Book 6 will come to ebook a little sooner. I'm finished writing and I'm neck-deep in editing.

I'm still working on the print editions for book 2 onward. I'm trying to figure out how to get expenses down. Many of the books in the series are over 160k words, and at the 5x8 standard size the books would be approaching the $30 mark. Ideally, I'd like to sell the paperbacks for half that.

 

April News

 Hello one and all!

So this month we've got Memories of the Reborn releasing on audio on 4/27.

Book 6, Champion of Deania, is going through editing right now. Book 7 is mostly drafted as well, save for the ending, but it's still completely in rough draft form right now and will need another draft before I'm even ready to start showing it to people on Patreon.

Book 7 will wrap up our current arc and set us up for the next one. I think there'll be a bit of a break between this three book arc and starting what comes after it. It's past time I reworked my plans for the ending of the series given all the changes I've made to the story as I've written it, and I need time to figure all that out. Fortunately I'm a bit ahead of schedule, and short of a complete disaster I'll be able to get 3 Spellheart books out this year, each spaced a few months apart. (I hope to have Champion of Deania out this summer, then book 7 in the fall).

So now is the best chance I'll get for a break to do that thinking. My current notes are essentially the series notes I wrote before I even finished Zeal of the Mind and Flesh when I was a much less experienced writer, and some of the stuff I in those notes is just not going to work.

During that time while I'm pondering the future of the Spellheart series, I'll probably start a new, smaller-scale project. Three or four books in the 70-100k word range seems to be the norm for this genre, and going shorter means I'll be able to play around with hiring an editor and whatnot while also getting books out faster and more consistently, both of which are keys to future success.

I know you'd all prefer if I kept completely focused on the Spellheart series, but I've got to yield to practical concerns eventually. More experienced authors are telling me that having just one open series for so long is setting myself up for disaster, and I believe them. My book launches are getting smaller with each new release, so it's time I put a lot of serious thought into the ending so I can properly set up for that while the books can still pay their production costs. I don't want to be in a situation where I'm forced to end the series early or put it on endless hiatus because of money issues.