Book 7 Preorder is up! Also, I started a discord server!

Note: The Dark Elf issue is being fixed! I accidentally uploaded the wrong version of the book while fixing a typo a few hours ago. The new version is going live now!

Spellheart 7: Spire of Blood is now up for preorder! You can downloaded it now or just keep an eye on it to download it on KU when it comes out next week!

 

Link(US): Get it here!

(UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09DXF6JFH

(DE): https://www.amazon.de/dp/B09DXF6JFH

(CA): https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09DXF6JFH

 

 

(Full wrap around image for the paperback to show the whole scene)

In other news:

Join my the new discord server here!

https://discord.gg/zGMJuhyq7Q

I'm on there pretty much every day, so you can talk with either me or other fans!

Chat about the books, the genre, or just hang out and have fun.

Spellheart 7 Status update and Austin Beck's Giveaway!

Hi everyone!

I'm going to get right down to it.

Spellheart 7, Spire of Blood!

(That's Illiel BTW)

The book is done. It's going through the last couple of beta readers now. I'm going to do some final edits, a last quick proofread, and then it will be in your hands sometime next month.

I'm actually hoping to experiment with preorders for this one, so expect that to pop up for the book sometime soon. You'll have an exact release date when that goes live.

Audiobooks are in progress. I'm told #6 will be out sometime in November. #5 comes out next month at some point.

In other news, Austin Beck (an author friend of mine) is doing a giveaway!

https://www.facebook.com/100053440933490/posts/353611833096845/?d=n

 

Signed books and special fridge magnets containing art for the series!

The drawing is happening tomorrow, and so far there aren't that many entries, so your chances of winning something are very high!

(If you're nervous about giving away your address to Austin, don't be. He's a chill guy. If you're still nervous even after that warning, Shipito offers a package redirection service.)

Spellheart Book 4: Legacy of Vanished Friends Audio now availible

 

Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/Legacy-of-Vanished-Friends-Audiobook/1666103322

 

To be honest, I completely forgot this was coming out to day, so special thanks to the reader who posted that it had been released on the last blog post.

The audio for book 4 is out. #5 and #6 are already in Tantor's hands, so those should hopefully come out soon as well.

Now, for my ebook folks.

Q: When is book 7 coming out?

A: September... probably.

That's my best guess! Book 7 is in editing now, but you all know I like to be shoulder-deep in the sequel before I release a book. It does look like book 6's release benefited tremendously from a 3 month release rate over my previous 5 month release rate. I'm going to see if I can make that happen a few more times, though I may end up moving down to 100k word books to make those quicker releases happen while maintaining quality. Time will tell.

Until next time, happy reading!

Spellheart 6: Champion of Deania is now live!

 

Get it here (US): https://amzn.to/3pHe4Qy
Global Link: https://mybook.to/Spellheart6

 

It's finally live! I had to struggle with some serious formatting issues. Even now, it's only showing the book as 341 pages long. Which is weird because it should be a few pages longer than Chief of the Blackgorge (so at least 500).

But based on my cursory scans everything is present, so it must just be some weird page compression thing happening in Amazon's magic box. The text is displaying (mostly) the way I want it, though I might take another crack at reformatting later.

Please give it a read! And if you like the story then please leave a review!

Book 3 audio book out, Book 6 minor delays

So, if you missed the last post Memories of the Reborn now has an audiobook.

In other news, I'm pushing the book 6 release date to next month. I'd hoped to get it out this month, but I wasn't satisfied with the ending. So I'm cutting a chunk off book 7 and adding it to book 6 (don't worry, book 7 was super extra chunky already, so this will bring them both roughly into the 160k-170k range.)

But it does mean I have more editing to do, and I need to write a few more scenes to give the book a proper ending and give book 7 a proper start. That's going to take a bit of time. I'll see you next month!

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.