All about the dragons
Hey!
This is Ran from the Curse Breaker series with your book news! To start off, the Rogue Gods Kickstarter is off to an amazing start! All the rewards are available, so you can head over to grab yours now and you’ll get the stretch rewards too!
What are the stretch rewards?
Well, that’s the question isn’t it? We didn’t plan any because we had no idea if anyone would want a trilogy about an ex-war god, a fallen angel turned librarian and Rosalie, Robin’s headstrong daughter. (She’s the most likely to save anything because she does not quit.)
What books are in the trilogy:
Gateway to Hell - the book with all the heists.
Summon the Gods - the book where Rosalie brings a dagger to a god fight (we don’t recommend that. Please don’t attempt this at home, just read about it.)
Storm the Gates - the book with all the dragons (there are 14 dragons in this book. The 15th dragon was away on vacation and couldn’t help out. This is also the book where some important gates get stormed.)
So back to the stretch rewards. What are they?
Well, stretch rewards are things offered as the funding total rises that enhance the book and adds value. While we’d love to upgrade to printed or sprayed edges, the printer we use doesn’t have that capability. And that would only upgrade the print books. But we want to upgrade the ebooks too.
There are 175 color images, 86 full page B+W images, 12 celestial drawings across the three books in the trilogy right now.
So what can we do? We had two options:
add more art to the ebooks, paperbacks, and hardcover books! ← The characters like this option
or Melinda writes the story behind how a certain spell ends up in a certain character’s hands. You find out in Storm the Gates how it happened, but it’s a quick conversation, not something that’s shown.
Who will decide what we do?
Backers voted for more art. We put together an update with the art we are adding to Gateway to Hell, book 1 of the Rogue Gods Trilogy. You can check it out here. You can still back the Kickstarter and get the illustrated editions too!
These special editions won't be available anywhere else, so back the project now to get your copies!
And now, the cast of the Rogue Gods Trilogy would like to present another except for your reading pleasure. Please welcome Argeaneal to the digital stage.
Who’s Argeaneal? He’s this guy. Will this angsty angel get a happy ending?
Argeaneal is a fallen angel, the head librarian of the Library of Forbidden Knowledge, and the guy who threw Guerren in jail after the ex-war god snuck in to steal the Book of Names.
(Remember that from the excerpt we shared many weeks ago?)
Argeaneal loves the Library of Forbidden Knowledge. In fact, he built it, and it houses more than dangerous knowledge. So he'll do anything to protect it, even fight a gateway spell that tries really hard to land on the library's main building and flatten it.
But the gateway is more than a nuisance. It's something that shouldn't exist. He should destroy it before too many demons escape from Hell through it. But how do you destroy a magical tunnel that burrows through realms?
Are you ready to meet him? Then let’s go!
We’re diving into chapter 21 so you can meet him. He appears in earlier chapters, but this is the first chapter from his point of view from inside the Library of Forbidden Knowledge, his natural habitat.
Rogue Gods #1: Gateway to Hell
By Melinda Kucsera
Searching For A Spell (Chapter 21)
As Argeaneal strode through the cavernous library, singed books and scattered scrolls crunched under his boots.
“Did you get it back?” Antares asked from somewhere behind him.
Argeaneal waved a clawed hand. “Not yet. I found help to retrieve it.” But he still needed to find the book when that gateway opened. Argeaneal pulled another book from the shelf in front of him. There must be a finding spell capable of locating the Book of Names somewhere in this library. He just needed to find it.
“If that’s so, then what are you doing? Because it looks like you’re searching for something.”
Damn Antares for picking up on that. Although he wasn’t doing much to conceal his search. Argeaneal flipped the pages of the book in his hand, and the words twisted on the page. Damn it. This was a witch-made book. He tossed it over his shoulder, but it didn’t thud on the ground.
“I can’t help you if you don’t tell me what you’re looking for.” Antares reached past him and placed the book back on the shelf, but he didn’t step back after that. He stayed so close behind that he almost touched his wings. “Let me help you,” Antares whispered in his ear. “We are allies, you and I, and allies help each other when they need it.” Antares stepped back.
“Trust is hard for me.” Argeaneal grabbed another book, but he didn’t open it.
“I never betrayed you.”
That was true. Argeaneal squeezed the book in his hands. But others he’d loved had turned on him.
“Fine. Don’t tell me. Spend the rest of eternity looking for whatever you lost this time. It’s not like I organized this place for you.” Antares stomped away like a petulant child, but he wasn’t a child anymore.
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We’ll be back with more.
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