Refuge is live on Amazon
After a much longer process than I expected, Refuge is finally done! I really hope you guys will love this book. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07LGBTRNS
Refuge cover and update
The cover illustration came back, and I got a brilliant typography artist to help me rebrand the covers. People told me they seemed like they were "young adult" and "twee." Lesson learned: Hire professionals! Refuge itself is now nearly in its final form. I need to send it off to the editor for a final proofread/correction which [...]
Refuge is off to the beta readers
After way too much work, I've finally managed to get Refuge to the point where I'll let someone else read it. It's way bigger than Dead Gods at 130,000 words as opposed to Dead Gods at 102,000. Now it's up to my intrepid betas to rip me a new one and tell me all the ways [...]
Refuge first pass edit complete!
Just now I finished my first pass edit. You have no idea what a weight off my chest this is. Transcription as a way of generating a first draft is awesome—you generate the story so quickly. But then you have to go back and clean it up. And sometimes what it transcribes is so terribly wrong [...]
Refuge first draft completed!
Yesterday I finished the first draft of Refuge. It was an epic push, 16000 words. The final word count is 128,000-ish. Now, that's a messy first draft. It's going to require quite a bit of cleanup, but the story is all there now. Next step is the grueling post-dictation cleanup phase, then first edit pass, beta [...]
Refuge progress and audiobook update
The last few days have been pretty productive. Today I clocked 10515 words on Refuge, bringing the (very rough) first draft up to 98178 words. That seems like a lot (Dead Gods is only 102k), but it's not done yet. There's at least two major scenes left to write plus a lot of "connective tissue." This is [...]
Audiobook production has started and an update on Refuge
A couple days ago I signed a narration contract for Book 1. The narrator I've chosen is a man named Roberto Scarlatto. He's done a lot of work, but in the LitRPG genre he's done the Accidental Thief series by Jamie Davis. I really liked his audition and I think he'll do a great job. The [...]
Planning out my first PVP battle
My writing process is strange, sometimes. I spent a lot of time in my youth creating game systems and running games for friends. I used to play D&D and others, both as the DM and as a player. Nowadays, it's basically impossible for me to get a group. I can live with the sadness, if [...]