Jayson lives among the shadows of Hestoria, his sole purpose for staying alive – to protect his half of the Seer’s crystal. Exiled from his homeland for loving the king’s daughter, Ivanore, Jayson is now pursued by two opposing factions: the Vatéz (League of Magicians) who intend to use the crystal for their own selfish gain, and the Guilde, the ancient guardians of the crystal.
Meanwhile, Ivanore flees from her father to Hestoria in search of Jayson. As the Seer, she is plagued with visions of him being tortured and is determined to rescue him. When the Vatéz capture her, however, she unwittingly jeopardizes everything Jayson has vowed to protect. He must now make a terrible choice: Should he save Ivanore or save the crystal?
I’ve been struggling this week to keep up with email, twitter, blogging, and everything else that could build up. The kid had a week off from school and the weather was miserable, so we were going stir crazy by the end. Other adults were working or had important things to take care of so I felt like I was on my own for most of it. The result is that I never touched a notebook, outline, or did much thinking about my situation. All I did was try to make it to the end of the day and get enough sleep for the next. Today has proven to be an even bigger headache with a few sudden issues cropping up that will make Monday less fun than it could be.
Since I didn’t do anything of note this week, I don’t really have much to report as far as writing goes. I’m prepping a few blog posts for March and I plan on getting back into my books tomorrow. It’s been about a month since I stepped into Windemere due to a break then misery and then no time. Summer isn’t looking pretty, but I plan on working on a side project and edit during that time. Anyway, I’m still battling a few cobwebs and some wear on the confidence. I won’t go into details in public, so moving on.
The project I’m starting is Book 10 of Legends of Windemere, which is a daunting task because it’s the first of the double-digits. Always knew it would get that far, but it’s different when you’re staring at the number. I’m also working on getting ‘Sleeper of the Wildwood Fugue’ ready for an April release. The editing will start soon and I’ll contact Jason in a week, so this is more preparing posts for the Hype Week. It’s getting tougher because newer books in a series don’t sell as hotly as the previous. So part of me doesn’t even know what to do for this. It’ll be a full week of posts that will hopefully start with a cover reveal like the last one. Just not sure what to write about. Maybe ask people their opinions on long series or write about upheavals since this book shakes up the game and several characters are forever changed. I think this is some residual confidence issues because I saw some signs that things weren’t what they seemed prior to Curse of the Dark Wind.
For someone who started the week talking about being positive, I’m coming off as a downer. Pandora’s cruel random mix isn’t helping since the songs while writing this seem to be about funerals, being forgotten, death, and misery. It started with Fat-Bottomed Girls by Queen, so no idea how it went downhill so quickly.
Let’s get into the goals:
Start writing ‘Tribe of the Snow Tiger’.
Handle a few issues and get tax stuff out of the way.
Get back into the biking since it’s been a little over a week.
Finish up future blog posts and guest posts.
Return to FB daily promos because at least they made me feel like I was trying to be productive.
Work on the outlines when I can, but book comes first.
Figure out some promo stuff for next book. Maybe do an ‘interview’ post for some audience interaction. Those tended to fail, but it couldn’t hurt.
Yay, exciting stuff! Pearseus: Vigil has now been released to into the wild to fend for itself on Amazon. This marks the rebranding of Rise of the Prince as book #1 in the series, with Mad Water now being #2 and Vigil #3. As per your suggestion, Pearseus: Schism has been relaunched as Book 0, or Prequel to the series.
I have now changed the book covers and updated their description to match the new classification. I will also change later today the 3-book bundle, to include Vigil instead of Schism, and will raise its price accordingly.
Speaking of prices, Rise of the Prince will now be just $0.99. Schism, instead, will sell for $1.99. I hope this will entice people to start the series with Rise. The two next books in the series will have a normal price of $2.99. Since the bundle now includes books worth $6.97 if bought separately, I was thinking…
Sorry that I’ve been quiet/absent for some people. It’s been a rough week, which has seen me drained. Still alive, but I’m pushing the term. So I’m doing my goal post tomorrow because today I have two announcements:
First is that a new indie author promotion site is coming up. I reblogged about it earlier in the day, but I’ve signed up. So check out
There’s a special deal going on where you pay a $50 annual membership pre-launch fee instead of the $100 that it will be. It’s also $25 for a monthly spot as the cover photo of your genre section. You can see CURSE OF THE DARK WIND there right now. This is definitely getting on the ground floor, so get in early and help promote this new site.
The second piece of news is that Sean Cooke made a new trailer for LEGENDS OF WINDEMERE. Check it out below and go to the YouTube site to like and share. Thanks and I’ll hopefully be back on track tomorrow.
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The crinkling of glass
Drowning out all noise
Shards crumbling into the void
Jagged edges bared
Ripping feet to ribbons
Dripping precious blood
Into the nearing maw
Every step
Shuddering with fear and pain
Unsure if the path is true
Considering
That every act is flawed
How long before I fall?
So I’ve done a few guest posts for others and hosted a few. I’m thinking of making Tuesdays and Thursdays open for anyone who wants to guest post. This got me thinking to what I did with C.S. Boyack and Kylie Betzner. We did post/interview trades. I wrote something for them and they wrote something for me.
Does this help promote our books? I assume so even if it’s just the spreading of our names.
Does this help bring in blog traffic? Yes.
Is it fun? Yes.
Can you think of post topics easily? No, which is where I crash into the wall. I never know what to write about when asked to do a guest post.
Anyway, I’m still in a break week with the kid and was considering what I could do to be more Internet productive. So I’m thinking of getting a little more into guest blogging and was wondering if anyone wanted to do a post trade. We can give each other topics and see what happens. It can even be like with C.S. and I did with taking two sides of the same topic.
So, what do people think? Anyone interested? If you want in then comment or email me at lukecallindor@gmail.com.
Note: If you request a post from me then I’ll do my best to get it to you by the end of the weekend. Hoping to have a full day of ‘me time’ on Sunday.
