An update on the legends of the first empire
As most probably already know, Marc Simonetti has created a great illustration to grace the cover. It depicts Magda (an ancient tree in the Crescent Forest). Del Rey"s artistic director (Dave Stevenson) has been working with us to lớn come up with the other aspects of the cover (font, title name, author name). After several attempts, we finally have it nailed down. So here is the cover that will be released.
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I LOVE the way it looks, and it was no small task finding a fonts that myself, Robin, Tricia (our editor), và Steve (the art director) liked. Del Rey"s team was so accommodating & really went above and beyond with all the options they went through.Robin, whose mind is constantly working, has come up with a way that you can get signed copies if you pre-order. More on that in a future post. For now, we are going to limit how many of these signed copies we are committing to và if you want to lớn be notified once they are available, here is a sign-up list.Also, the proof for the book has come in and both Robin và I are busy reading it. It looks great and marks yet another milestone toward the release. There should be ARC (Advanced Reading Copies) in hand shortly, và I"ll vì chưng some drawing for people who want lớn read them ahead of time.Last update on this...the recording of the audio book will start March 14th. And yes, the amazing Tim Gerard Reynolds is don the narration. We are going to thành phố new york on the 13th, will go out lớn dinner with Tim and then sit in on the first few days" recordings. If you are as excited as we are about the audio version of this book, please pre-order it now, or the next time you have audible credits available!Age of Swords
I finished by second edit of this book back in November. It"s been sitting, waiting for Robin to read and provide commentary to. She"s already been through this process once before, and the book was in really good shape, so this shouldn"t take too terribly long. Robin just needs khổng lồ GET lớn it. Three things are in front of her.
Finish shipping The Death of Dulgath Kickstarter rewards. She is close on this. So far we have all the books và t-shirts out. Now it"s just down khổng lồ Bags, Mugs, Posters, & maps. That sounds lượt thích a lot but compared to the books & shirts it"s not nearly as time-consuming.Finish editing The Making of The Death of Dulgath ebook.Finish proofing of Age of Myth.
Once she gets through it, và assuming she doesn"t haven"t anything major for me khổng lồ edit (which neither of us suspect will happen), the beta read will start. The beta readers will fall into a few categories.
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Those that beta-read Age of MythThose that didn"t beta-read Age of Myth but will get a copy of it before the betaThose that haven"t read Age of Myth
I finished up the second edit of this book in December. It is also sitting waiting for Robin. What a slacker! (Okay, don"t throw rocks at me we all know I"m kidding with that comment. Robin is the hardest working person I know). I don"t see the beta read starting for this anytime soon. & Robin will be more than busy with the beta read for Age of Swords. Again, this book had very few changes from Robin"s original alpha read, so I don"t expect much additional work on this.
This is what I"m working on now, and have been for the last several weeks. Unlike Book #2 & Book #3, this one did require MAJOR work based on Robin"s first alpha read. That"s the bad news. The good news is I have (a) figured out all the changes, created a new outline, & figured out all the problems introduced by the changes (b) have been writing it for several weeks now. The original deadline I set for this was over of February, & that"s not going to happen. I got started late because I was helping Robin ship Kickstarter stuff. But I vì think it"ll be done sometime in March, which isn"t that much of a delay.
This also will need some major work based on Robin"s alpha read. The good news is (a) it"s not nearly as extensive as the work lớn book #4, & (b) getting book #4 straightened out will make book #5 go much more quickly. At this point I still think April or May (which was my original deadline for myself) still seems doable.
Wow, that"s a lot. See, I knew it was a long time since I"ve updated people on this. The Death of Dulgath has been the focus of most of my posting as of late, but with it finally "out và about" it"s time to lớn start looking at the project. I"m very excited lớn hear what people think of it.
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Peter HutchinsonFebruary 16, 2016 at 12:37 PM
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KateFebruary 16, năm 2016 at 7:27 PM
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Michael J. SullivanFebruary 19, năm nhâm thìn at 5:09 PM
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I LOVE the way it looks, and it was no small task finding a fonts that myself, Robin, Tricia (our editor), và Steve (the art director) liked. Del Rey"s team was so accommodating & really went above and beyond with all the options they went through.Robin, whose mind is constantly working, has come up with a way that you can get signed copies if you pre-order. More on that in a future post. For now, we are going to limit how many of these signed copies we are committing to và if you want to lớn be notified once they are available, here is a sign-up list.Also, the proof for the book has come in and both Robin và I are busy reading it. It looks great and marks yet another milestone toward the release. There should be ARC (Advanced Reading Copies) in hand shortly, và I"ll vì chưng some drawing for people who want lớn read them ahead of time.Last update on this...the recording of the audio book will start March 14th. And yes, the amazing Tim Gerard Reynolds is don the narration. We are going to thành phố new york on the 13th, will go out lớn dinner with Tim and then sit in on the first few days" recordings. If you are as excited as we are about the audio version of this book, please pre-order it now, or the next time you have audible credits available!Age of Swords
I finished by second edit of this book back in November. It"s been sitting, waiting for Robin to read and provide commentary to. She"s already been through this process once before, and the book was in really good shape, so this shouldn"t take too terribly long. Robin just needs khổng lồ GET lớn it. Three things are in front of her.
Finish shipping The Death of Dulgath Kickstarter rewards. She is close on this. So far we have all the books và t-shirts out. Now it"s just down khổng lồ Bags, Mugs, Posters, & maps. That sounds lượt thích a lot but compared to the books & shirts it"s not nearly as time-consuming.Finish editing The Making of The Death of Dulgath ebook.Finish proofing of Age of Myth.
Once she gets through it, và assuming she doesn"t haven"t anything major for me khổng lồ edit (which neither of us suspect will happen), the beta read will start. The beta readers will fall into a few categories.
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Those that beta-read Age of MythThose that didn"t beta-read Age of Myth but will get a copy of it before the betaThose that haven"t read Age of Myth
I finished up the second edit of this book in December. It is also sitting waiting for Robin. What a slacker! (Okay, don"t throw rocks at me we all know I"m kidding with that comment. Robin is the hardest working person I know). I don"t see the beta read starting for this anytime soon. & Robin will be more than busy with the beta read for Age of Swords. Again, this book had very few changes from Robin"s original alpha read, so I don"t expect much additional work on this.
This is what I"m working on now, and have been for the last several weeks. Unlike Book #2 & Book #3, this one did require MAJOR work based on Robin"s first alpha read. That"s the bad news. The good news is I have (a) figured out all the changes, created a new outline, & figured out all the problems introduced by the changes (b) have been writing it for several weeks now. The original deadline I set for this was over of February, & that"s not going to happen. I got started late because I was helping Robin ship Kickstarter stuff. But I vì think it"ll be done sometime in March, which isn"t that much of a delay.
This also will need some major work based on Robin"s alpha read. The good news is (a) it"s not nearly as extensive as the work lớn book #4, & (b) getting book #4 straightened out will make book #5 go much more quickly. At this point I still think April or May (which was my original deadline for myself) still seems doable.
Wow, that"s a lot. See, I knew it was a long time since I"ve updated people on this. The Death of Dulgath has been the focus of most of my posting as of late, but with it finally "out và about" it"s time to lớn start looking at the project. I"m very excited lớn hear what people think of it.
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Peter HutchinsonFebruary 16, 2016 at 12:37 PM
This is one awesome update Michael, Age of Myth is one of my đứng đầu books lớn read in năm nhâm thìn I am really looking forward to it
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KateFebruary 16, năm 2016 at 7:27 PM
Love the cover! and it'd probably get me struck by lightning or something, but I'd totally climb that tree. :DIf we already pre-ordered on Amazon, will we still be eligible for signed copies?
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Michael J. SullivanFebruary 19, năm nhâm thìn at 5:09 PM
Wow, you haven't read Percepliquis ???? That's my favorite of the series. I think you'll really like the way the series wraps.
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