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Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

The Faerie Blood/Bone Walker Kickstarter is now LIVE!

Ladies and gentlemen, I am thrilled to announce that the Faerie Blood and Bone Walker Kickstarter project is now LIVE! Clickie on the link to see the project, including the awesome video Dara put together for me, and the list of all the shiny rewards Kiri Moth and I will be offering!

Many thanks to David Sklar, Sarah Avery, and Gary Inbinder, my fellow former Drollerie authors, for providing such wonderful blurbs. Many thanks to JoSelle Vanderhooft who’ll be tackling the edits for Bone Walker as soon as I finish it, and to Kiri Moth for her ongoing amazing work on the cover art! Most of all, huge props to my beloved Dara for her excellent work on the video!

If you want to support the project, be advised that you will need an Amazon.com account for it to work, since that’s how Kickstarter collects its payments. If you do not have an Amazon account, please consider bribing a friend with an account to do it for you!

And even if you can’t support financially, spreading the word to your own blogs and journals, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, Tumblrs, etc., will still be very, very helpful. So please, by all means, share the project link with unbridled abandon!

Let’s do this thing, people. And thank you all very, very much for your support!

April 16, 2012 by
Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

Kickstarter update!

I am delighted to report that as of last night, Dara handed me what we think will be the final version of the video for my Kickstarter project. We’re waiting on one last bit of feedback to see if Dara needs to tweak the text captions–but other than that, people, I’m about ready to have the nice folks at Kickstarter approve this thing. Once they do, I CAN GO LIVE.

I’ve lined up a bunch of lower-tier rewards geared around the ebook and print copies of Faerie Blood and Bone Walker, as well as the postcard and poster reproductions of Kiri Moth’s art. At the top of the lower tier of rewards, we’re talking an extra novella as well–this’ll be the as of yet untitled story of Elizabeth Breckenridge, my psychic, who must help Ross Taggart solve the murder of his Warder sister. I’ll be offering this as a reward since it’s already partly written, and I am confident I’ll be able to finish it up to offer for all y’all who might be thinking of supporting at high enough levels!

Limited upper tier rewards will feature the original preliminary sketches of the artwork of both books, as well as the pencil-and-ink original of the final artwork for both books. AND, I will be offering one of my two print copies of the Drollerie edition of Faerie Blood, signed by me of course, at this level as well. Everybody who throws in for any of this level of reward will also get everything up to the $100 level–i.e., both books, as well as the postcard, poster, and digital versions of the art.

And the highest-tier, crazytalk level rewards will involve things like getting your name on the Dedication page, or having a character named after you in the third book of the Faerie Blood trilogy, or if you’re feeling really ambitious, you can commission a Warder universe novella with a character named after you.

So yeah, we’re getting REAL close, so watch this space for events as they happen! And speaking of getting close, we’re ALSO closing in on the final cover art for Faerie Blood. Check it out, this is the last round of art that Kiri sent me!

Music By the Willow

Music By the Willow

April 14, 2012 by
Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

Test print copies of Faerie Blood! Whoa!

Okay, I say this entirely cognizant of how I am a big ol’ geek and of how much I loves me my ebooks: whoa, it gave me a bit of a shiver when userinfosolarbird brought me home these!

These, O Internets, are the only two print copies of the Drollerie edition of Faerie Blood that will ever exist. Dara and I have had Third Place Press print them up so that we could have a prop for the Kickstarter video we’re about to do–to show you exactly what the machine they use to make books can produce! And even knowing this, knowing these aren’t really the “official” printed copies of the book I’d like to share with you all, the sight of them still made me go holy crap this is a book with my name on it, in a way that the Drollerie ebook on my Nook or my iPad or iPhone never has.

userinfoapel has observed quite correctly to me on Twitter that there is a magic in tangible things, and I’m not at all immune to that even if so many of my books are in digital form these days.

I cannot wait to see the second edition of Faerie Blood, complete with Dara’s full layout and Kiri Moth’s awesome cover art, in this printed form. And I really hope y’all will get as big a kick out of it as I will, and jump in on the Kickstarter when it goes live! Join me, won’t you? Thank you!

March 31, 2012 by
Faerie Blood

Ahoy, beta readers! All hands on deck!

I have just completed my proofing sweep through Dara’s layout of Faerie Blood, the second edition–and now Dara and I need your help, people!

We need at least three sets of eyes to read over the PDF for us. Unlike with Lament of the Dove, what we need here is not big-picture proofing–this time we do in fact need nitpicky, fine-tooth-comb level inspection! We’re looking for any layout problem here, whether big or small, so that Dara can adjust it in the final version.

Also, since I’m updating “present day” in this edition of Faerie Blood, I’ve had to adjust various references to time. Anyone who has the book’s first edition handy and who would like to sanity-check the changes I’ve made, that would be very good as well.

So if you’d like in, email me or DM me on the social network of your choice, and I’ll send you the PDF! Note that the only modifications we expect to have to do at this point are to add the names of any appropriate Kickstarter supporters to the Dedication page and to the Acknowledgements. But other than that, the text should be considered final.

March 24, 2012 by
Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

Good gods this is going to be a book cover!

I’m getting excited over here, people, I gotta say. Because OMG OMG OMG look what Kiri Moth sent me tonight! (Those of you on the social networks, you saw this already, but here it is for LJ and DW and blog and Goodreads peeps!)

OMG a Cover!

OMG a Cover!

It’s a mockup, I know, but HOLY CRAP it’s starting to sink in for me that I’m going to have an actual, honest-to-gods, drawn-by-a-professional-artist book cover. ON MY BOOK. That I’m going to be printing and making for all of you folks out there! I can’t wait to fire up the Kickstarter. Dara and I need to make a video, the last thing I need to do before submitting the project for review. And this shiny, shiny thing from Kiri is going to figure prominently in the You Want to Support My Kickstarter, Don’t You? Video of Awesomeness. 😀

Because I mean damn. I’m swooning over this already and this is just the mockup, people! I cannot wait to see what it looks like in final full-color glory!

March 14, 2012 by
Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

Another peek at Kendis!

Kiri Moth has sent me another sketch of Kendis, you guys, check it out! As per the good advice I got in from fellow author Tia Nevitt, Kiri used pics of the classical violinist Midori as a pose guide, and now we’ve got a much neater pose here.

I’ve asked her to tweak a couple things about Kendis’ features here–this outfit, while awesome, makes her look a bit Romani–and she also looks a bit too old and a bit too much like Gina Torres. And while having a young Gina Torres play Kendis in the Faerie Blood Movie in My Brain is delicious, delicious awesomesauce, we should avoid having her look too Torres-like on the cover.

But that said? WOW. We’re getting closer and I cannot wait to see the final version!

Another Look at Kendis

Another Look at Kendis

ETA: OMG, and now I have a color version of Kendis as well! 😀 😀 Violin/fiddle players, let me know: do you think the instrument as drawn in this picture is too big? userinfosolarbird thinks it is, but I’m not sure. Let me know!

Kendis Thompson IN COLOR

Kendis Thompson IN COLOR

March 11, 2012 by
Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

Have you read Faerie Blood? Want to blurb my Kickstarter?

Kickstarter update time, people!

I’m deep in talks with my cover artist to finalize reward levels, and decide on tasty, tasty rewards to offer you guys (I ain’t going into public details yet, but you may assume that the words ‘cover art’ and ‘prints’ are being liberally thrown around in this conversation). And I’ve got to think about what the hell to put into a video for this thing before I submit it to the Kickstarter people for review!

But this is a potential point for you, yes YOU, O Internets, to come in even before the Kickstarter gets off the ground!

If you’ve read Faerie Blood, I need your help. I’d love, love, love to have brief pithy reader reaction blurbs I could quote on the Kickstarter’s project page. Funny quotes would be especially awesome! Really funny quotes I’d also be eying as potential fodder to be read out loud, by yours truly, in the project video.

So if you want in on this, talk to me! Anybody who contributes a suitable reader reaction quote will totally get something shiny out of the Kickstarter rewards pool!

March 10, 2012 by