Tales from Terramyr: New puppy and new book!

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

New puppy and new book!

Good morning Terramyr fans!

I hope this email finds you doing well. Only 20 more days until the mysterious litrpg busts onto the scene and I can finally show it to all of you. I am beyond excited. So, in an attempt to hold back my anxious desires to give everyone an early sneak peek, I am going to focus on something else that is new and fun.

Meet our new pup. Being a family that loves fantasy books, movies, and games, you might expect the floofer to be named something like Thena, Ramira Queen of Darkness, Fangs McGee, or (a personal favorite of my wife's for D&D characters) Bethilda Hornswaggle. Especially since I now have three out of five sons actively writing their own fantasy stories complete with their own outlandish names to boot, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect a wild name complete with an origin backstory.

So... what did we name the little ball of fur?

Drum roll please....

Terramyr fans, I'm excited to introduce Mei Mei (inspired not by epic fantasy sagas, but by Ni Hao Kai Lan, which has been a favorite cartoon around here since our first-born was less than a year old).

Speaking of our first born... that's him sitting on the back steps reading to Mei Mei. He's a little older now... ;)

So, it may not be a great big book reveal, but at least sharing something cute, fluffy, and new has helped me satisfy my desire to give you all a sneak peek at something. :)

Now, back to writing. I've officially scheduled 14 "episodes" on Kindle Vella. Not sure exactly when Vella is going to launch, there are rumors it will be Prime day, and other news says it will be a couple months yet. Either way, if it launches after the 14 episodes are scheduled to launch it will just mean that all of them will be available immediately, so it should be fun. Wild Magic and Dimwater's Devotions are the main vella stories I am focusing on at the moment, with some Phinean and Jaleal mixed in for good measure :)

Also, while Son of the Dragon is certainly not new, it does have a new development as well. The omnibus version is now available in hard cover! And let me tell you, this thing is very large. Essentially it's the size of a D&D handbook, but at that size with 11 pt font it's still nearly four hundred pages long. (Keep in mind it's around 300,000 words.) It's a beast of a book, and I have to admit it looks pretty impressive on a shelf lol. The paperback is a little easier to find a shelf for it to fit on, but it's fun to be putting out hard cover editions of certain books.

Not sure how many hard covers we'll end up doing, but we will be getting paperback editions for Dimwater's Door and The Kuscan Demon this summer too so we have those ready prior to SLC FanX where I'll be showing off all sorts of fun items this year.

That's it for this week! If you haven't yet taken a moment to put up a review for the Kendualdern series, please take a moment to do so. Also, check out this week's book spotlight-- The Throne of Ice and Ash by J.D.L. Rosell -- I think a lot of you will enjoy it.