It’s hard to believe we are already two weeks into a new year! I’ve been busy with a lot of behind-the-scenes projects while the editor is working on Wrath & Desire. Some of those include designing family trees for main characters, creating dictionaries/listings of plants, animals, and the various races in the series, hand-drawing art, updating maps, and much more. I’ve also got the ebook up for pre-order on the other retailers now, so you can see the links at the bottom of this post.
In addition to the above, I’m working on a bonus story (possibly two) for Wrath & Desire that is going to be…interesting to say the least. Some readers requested it after I posted the chicken distraction excerpt a while back. It will be a mixture of humor and naughtiness. I will include links to the story/stories at the back of the eBook for those who are interested in downloading it from BookFunnel for free.
I spent nearly a week this month drafting backmatter for the novel (to be included in all formats). There will be a listing of fae and non-fae races, with pertinent ones having summaries and key details included about them. There will also be a plant and animal dictionary you can reference that gives descriptions and known characteristics, such as their danger level and intelligence rating. Only in the Realm of Zadrya do you have to worry about how smart a plant is, and some of them include bonus details that haven’t been mentioned in the books yet. This is a sample definition of one of the plants you already saw in the first book, so it doesn’t have spoilers:
For the maps, I am going to have the artist who designed the ones for Oaths & Vengeance update them, since a few more features need to be included for the next installment. I’d love to add more maps to the book, but they significantly increase the file size. The larger the book file is, the more Amazon keeps from the sale price for itself. By early February, I will have a page here on my website that will include all the maps I’ve drawn of this world. That includes the realm, various lands, and even some of the cities. This way, if you’re one of those readers who likes to follow along using maps, you can keep the webpage open on your device to check it when needed.
Next topic! For my ARC readers, you would have received an email update from me on January 9th. If you didn’t, it may have gone to spam, or you may have received a copy of Oaths & Vengeance directly from Netgalley, Booksirens, Hidden Gems, etc., and didn’t sign up to my list afterward. If you are interested in receiving an ARC of Wrath & Desire, please sign up HERE and be sure to include a link to your review of the first book. This way I can add you to the team for the next. There is also an option to join my street team through the signup.
Finally, I’m posting the links for book two below. As I usually do, the ebook will be available widely across retailers for a couple of days after the release before I pull it and add it to Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited program. I plan to have the hardcover available around the same time as the ebook release, and the paperback will come out in March (more on that later).
That’s it for now, but feel free to ask questions below if you have them. Hope everyone is having a good week!
