Bang! Zoom! It's Barsoom!

[Buster's Uncle]

This is an official nagging notice, noting that Pyrebound has not been very good since 25 December, and demanding you get back to work.

-Submitted in a spirit of brazen entitlement, a fan, etc., ect., ect.

I'd also add that I've been a loyal fan, checking for a new chapter every Sunday evening I remembered to, which is some, and "boosting" until that stopped working in my default browser, which I didn't realize for quite a while, but I've been doing it in MSEdge for over a month.

You owe me now.  WRITE!

[Elok]

I have been, at your urging, in the other thread.  I can only speculate on the sociopolitical woes of one unhappy and dysfunctional polity at a time, you know.  But yes, I'll go back to the other one, where I know how it ends.

[Buster's Uncle]

 

[Buster's Uncle]

Writing comes first.

I hope you will still monitor the politics; I will try not to demand time-consuming homicidal forensic debate at ten paces if you chip in.

[Elok]

Just popping in to say that Pyrebound is finished.  Will probably get back on the train to edit and prep for publication in a few days.

[Elok]

A few days turned out to be six or seven months and I couldn't bring myself to make all the radical changes I wanted to at first.  Still: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B3F9RT97

Kindle version's live.

[Elok]

Re: the original subject of this thread, I've been in touch with other writers on RR and found this gleefully over-the-top sword-and-sorcery thingamabob: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/44789/the-trials-of-the-lion

It may or may not be of interest.  Also, the link in the above post now leads to my print edition as well, though it's $15.17 due to the sheer amount of paper that went into it.

[Unorthodox]

I'm not a judge a book on the cover guy, but boy do you need a cover artist. 

I'mma gonna do the kindle thing if I can get my kindle working. 

[Elok]

Yeah, I don't have cash to spare on this project so I had to do the make-a-cover thing with a public domain image from Wiki.  I like the image in general and as a theme for the story, but I can accept that Kindle's free options lack panache and it might be better to have something more bold.

[Unorthodox]

I got the kindle out and MAYBE charging.  (8 hours on the cord brought it to 30%...)
Hopefully it'll be back to full health when I get home. 

But, speaking of horrid covers, getting the kindle out remined me of a series I'd been reading. 

Dao of the Evil God. 

https://www.amazon.com/Dao-Evil-God-Sakuya-Yatogami-ebook/dp/B01MY59PQS

Very much english as a second language, and needs an edit, but I was fascinated to hear a lot of the mythology that I had only a cursory knowledge base in, so had been reading up to about 15 or so when I'd caught up to the author.  Definitely not for everyone but enjoyable enough in the vein of this thread.  (fairly sure I got at least half of them free)

[Elok]

A new acquaintance who's got a background in design is going to go ahead and whip up a new cover for me, he says, because he thinks even my Royal Road cover is just bleh.  I might use his finished version for Kindle as well, because his rough mockup is pretty boss.  Not gonna share it because it's a rough draft and IDK if he'd be embarrassed, but new cool cover may be en route.

[Buster's Uncle]

I dunno - I think the Mesopotamian bas relief cover is pretty boss, for all the tendency to look like a textbook.  Nobody's gonna think something titled "Pyrebound" -great title, btw- is a textbook, surely.

[Elok]

I'm perfectly happy with my paperback cover.  But my Kindle cover has a generic Amazon layout with a bland title block over the image, which isn't terribly distinctive on a small screen and probably looks like a low-contrast smear on a paperwhite.  The image is downright terrible for Royal Road, of course, since it doesn't have enough contrast to show up in miniature and mostly seems like a mass of brown.  I replaced it for the time being with EDIT: whoa, the yuck on the title really shows up at this size!  It looks okay at thumbnail size though.

[Elok]

Okay, the artist said it was cool to show you the mockup.  He did this with minimal familiarity with the story.

[Buster's Uncle]

-Work in the wingy beardy dude from the previous, and you've got something.