Hi All,

Lots to talk about today, so let’s jump right into it!

Eidylon episode 5 went on sale Monday, and as I had previously stated, that will be the last volume to be published in the regular serial format. Currently, the first two volumes are tied up in KDP Select until the beginning of April, but at that point, I will be relabeling all the parts with new titles and shifting the series over to a novella format, marketed as such. In other words, the books will no longer say “serial novel” on the cover or title page, but will be presented as any regular series.

I am working on the sixth episode, but it will be some time ere we see that, as I want to get another project underway. Nevertheless, I do not at present intend to let Eidylon die. I just don’t intend to spend all of my energy on a series that is failing to supply me with enough income each month to afford a Starbucks coffee. If things change, and the series suddenly picks up out of nowhere, I will put my efforts back into it to milk that cash-cow…er…complete the story for those interested.

In the meantime, I have already begun writing another book, and I have been thinking a lot about what I want to do with this one. On the one hand, making money is nice, but on the other, I feel that if I’m not making money, I’d like to at least be read. So I’ve come up with a plan, an experiment, for this one, and it is such an experiment that interested parties will be able to begin reading as soon as next Monday–that’s right, 03/11/2013.

Why that date? Well, here I get a bit sentimental. Monday is my mother’s birthday, and the character at the heart of this next opus is the character I created for my very first attempt at a novel, way back in 2004. While my writing was still very raw at that time, I have always like this character, and always intended to go back to him some day. The time has finally come. He also happens to be–perhaps–my mother’s favourite character from all that I’ve written. (Our dear mommers, eh? Always our first and bestest fans…)

Right, on from the mushy stuff. What I am going to try is a sort-of post-as-I-write scheme, not unlike the way comic strips are published. I’ll be working at about a week ahead of my posting schedule, to have some degree of room to make up for stuff that happens in real life. There will be a few changes at the website here–nothing drastic, and perhaps they’ll largely go unnoticed, but they could cause a few kinks in the first couple of days.

I plan to publish one post every day–or, failing that, three times a week. Basically, there will be a thread on this website that will update with a new chapter very regularly. If you subscribe by email, you will automatically receive those updates, but I am also (as we speak) figuring out how to set up a single RSS subscription feed for the serial itself.

And the other, really experimental thing I’m going to try is to post at the same time over at Wattpad. I am well aware that Wattpad’s largest demographic is teenage girls–and, no, this story doesn’t have vampires, werewolves, or high school romance–but as the protagonist of the story is a boy in his early teens, there may just be some appeal to the website’s largely school-age audience.

But I will have a bit more on this in another post later this week. Really, it’s purely an experiment, and as I said earlier, I’d simply like to be read at this stage, so if 1,000 folks read for free, that’s better to me than ten folks reading at 99c. I do plan to release the thing for sale when it’s completed and fully edited, but for now, I just want to try something different.

As I said, I’ll post later this week with more specific details about the story itself, and about the serializing format.

Until then…Cheers!

Hi All,

Another couple of busy weeks have passed me by. I find myself so apathetic when it comes to maintaining this blog, though I’m going to have to try to be a bit better about that. For now, though, there are a few Eidylon related bits of news:

Part 3 is on sale now at Amazon. Here’s the link: The Eponymous Link!

Also, Part 2 will be on a free giveaway at Amazon tomorrow and Wednesday. I’ll post the link to my Facebook page when the special starts, so all you Facebookites can share it with your fellow Facebookites and spread the word. The rest of you, well, you can grab Part 2 for free, and that’s an end.

With Part 3 now out, I will, obviously, begin final polishing of Part 4. By now, the idea of the Epic of Place is beginning to become clearer, as we have advanced over 400 years from the story related in Part 1. There is still a long way to go in the life-cycle of the city Eidylon, but the expansion of the city’s empire is beginning to take shape, and will only increase in speed as Parts 5, 6, and 7 roll out.

Well, I hope you give Eidylon a try, especially if you’re on the fence about it. It is quite a different story from anything else on the market in fantasy right now, but it is a format that has seen success in historical fiction. One of the complaints I often have with fantasy novels is the seeming lack of historical depth. Well, in Eidylon I’ve sacrificed character depth for history, and the result should be refreshingly different, if nothing else.

All right, I’ll quit there!

Cheers, until next time!