Cover are for book one of Total War: Clausewitz, depicting a crashing dropship,
Cover art reveal! This is for book one in the #TotalWar Clausewitz series, Dropship Down. By dariajordan.eu
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Just a litte worldbuilding with an image of one of Vatan's ancient forests by dariajordan.eu. It only features in #Alagariel IV or V, so I'm not telling you where it is yet.
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My writing has to make engineering sense for me to enjoy it. H2 tanks outboard, because H2 is light and has less influence on rotation, O2 tanks near the centreline, because heavy has less impact there.
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Cover artist is working on Dropship Down. There's a crashing dropship (obviously). As there's a bit of a fire involved
I got to wondering where the pressure tanks were. #scifi #writing #worldbuilding
A small update on Total War: Clausewitz #1, Dropship Down.
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I personally would not trust this flavour of good news marketing infographics further than I can throw a robotaxi.
I'm curious how they worked out driver/distance. Vehicle/distance isn't that hard, but driver/distance? What records is that based on exactly? In which areas, time of day, etcetera? What other sorts of crashes exist (I believe crashes with emergency vehicles are a documented problem)?
Oh. Cool. I'm not the only one.
So what are the feelings on proper pies, like say, steak & kidney or pork pie?
In lieu of season's greetings, here's an excerpt from my next book, that happens to be set around Christmas. Happy midwinter, everyone!
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A little update on where things stand with sales, Dropship Down and translations.
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The itch winter sale is live!
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..an opinion on the cover art. No sending off 50+ queries and having heart attacks every time one comes back. Self publishing seems highly preferable to me. Why not give it a go?
I just self published my first book after making an extended effort to identify the point of doing the trad publishing rigmarole. I was never able to find any significant upside to it. I'm just going to continue self publishing and see where it goes. No one to tell me the book is too long or have...
The it itch.io winter sale or whatever it's called will be starting on Wednesday. For people who prefer e-books the cheapest way to get my book (with some digital extras).
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All my protagonists do some sort of martial art. Mainly because I can't imagine keeping my own head on straight without it.
The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Obviously.
I'm willing to betaread with reciprocation. DM or preferably contact form on the site if interested.
It's intriguing. The infrastructure all still seems to assume publishers. I have a small company for the day job. For some things, the path of least resistance has turned out to be adding 'publisher' to its list of activities.
Just a little post on the vagaries of self publishing....
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So, I'm averaging about 16 book promotion scam emails a day. How's everybody else doing?
I've written quite a few excerpts from 'In Setting' works. I've started gathering them in one place and the first few are now up on my website in a more organised manner.
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Oh look. A pile of books has arrived. #booksky #indieauthor #TalesOfVatan #Alagariel #fantasy #sff #books
Oh, I completely forgot to mention this. There's still a little bit of black friday sale left:
#booksky #fantasy #Alagariel #TalesOfVatan #booktube #writing #reading #sff #femaleprotagonist
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I have the EUAF. They encompass hundreds of military traditions but if I have th chose how they fight? It would have to be the Wehrmacht.
dariajordan.eu, who does my covers had promised be some flavour sketches for #TalesOfVatan and she sent me a few things. Here's the first one and I think, in setting, it's going to be a sketch of ruins at Hightower, by Cyrus Sardinus, from his guidebooks.
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The paperback version of my books is now available on all the amazons that I checked
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For e-book buyers, I recommend itch.io (far more goodies).
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I'm curious what #author experiences are. I'm new to the #publishing thing. As an experiment I ordered my book on amazon (plz, buy it elsewhere). it's Ingram Spark, and I assume amazon needs more books from them. Got a delivery update for june 26. Anyone care to share experiences?
#booksky #writing
I've added a page describing some Elven customs on Vatan. I'll add to it as it becomes relevant.
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I'm afraid I've lost track. Have I ever posted this description of the planet Vatan, where The Half Elven Orphan is set?
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