Martyn Stanley's Blog - Posts Tagged "coming-soon"

Well, part 3 is progressing nicely! My volunteer editor is now going through the first half of part 3, and I'm now over 51,000 words. There's still a long way to go though! It is going to be bigger, in fact it's going to be huge. I can't see it being less than 100,000 at the moment, but after careful deliberation I've decided not to break up the books again. I did think book 3 could have become, 'Deathsworn Arc 3 : The Blood Trials' but it's starting to get ridiculous! So I'm going to press on and release a late, but double the expected size. 'Deathsworn Arc 3 : The Temple of the Mad God'

It's coming, I know it's late, but it will be worth the wait!

Martyn

I have to say, given the vastly increase in size of book 3 and the fact that I'm approaching a logical point to end a book. (Which is still miles away from the Temple of the Mad God) I am seriously looking at changing book 3 into 'The Blood Queen'

When will it be out? Early 2014 I think, and I think it will be longer than 1 and 2, but not double or triple the size as it would have been if I kept it as 'The Temple of the Mad God'

Mad God will follow, eventually... But for now, start looking forward to 'The Blood Queen'

The Blood Queen is coming! It's going to be long and different. We're going to learn what 'Deathsworn' means and we're going to have a much better feel for who Vashni really is. I can't wait to get it finished and out there!

Martyn

I'm getting closer! I have worked out a rescue plan for a difficult scenario, where several of the companions are incapacitated. By January the 1st I will be on the editing, proofing, tweaking and polishing things!

I really hope this goes down well and people enjoy it as much as they enjoyed the first two books.

Martyn

Well, it's here!

The big cover reveal for book 3!

I haven't created the book listing on Goodreads yet, as I don't have the blurb ready. However the cover is I think, READY!

Do you like it?



Let me know what you think in the comments!

Martyn

I've created the file for 'The Blood Queen'

The Blood Queen

It's not finished. I've come upon an issue that warrants some jiggery pokery, in order to keep the characterization realistic.

Personally I think my original version of events was fine. However my beta-reader, come muse, come editor thinks otherwise and he's read a lot more books.

It will slow me down, but I'm still aiming to get the book fully edited and polished and released for mid July.

I will try to announce the release date a week in advance.

I finished my edits in one version, I need to get it across to the others and upload - but that's the bulk of the work done!

To be fair there really weren't actually that many problems -some of the things I'd highlighted as changing - when I looked more closely at the text and the relevant rules - it turned out a lot of what I'd actually put was right!

All in I think there were about a dozen errors that I changed that were important. I know that's kind of bad, very bad compared to most trad-pubbed - but for me, on an 85,000 word story, I think it's okay!

Hope some more people choose to read on to it! So far about 500 people have picked up part 1 free this month - I expect a 50% read-through rate over three months, but that might slow down for book 3 - it's a shame book 3 is defo the best! I'm really, really pleased with it. I'm not surprised Inge and the other reviewers enjoyed it so much!