New Books & Someone's Jealous
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Hey! I got so caught up in my love on to-do lists that I forgot that we have new books out!
What new books are out?
They are available in our shop, direct from our new printer and from most retailers. They’re not on Amazon since the Alliance of Independent Authors still hasn’t heard back from Amazon about our case. So we have no update on that unfortunately.
I'm still salty about that, but there’s nothing I can do about it.
So I’m salty about something else today. This is Ran from the Curse Breaker series and our newsletter adventures series as usual. What am I salty about?
Actually, I'm kind of jealous. I've existed as a character since at least 2012 and possibly a little before that. I don't have an exact date because in 2012, my scribe moved all her book files to the cloud. So all her original files are now permanently dated as sometime in 2012 even if they were created long before that, and some were.
Why is that important?
It means that I've existed for at least 14 years, but I'm not 14 in the Curse Breaker series yet. I'm still little and cute.
Why does that matter?
Because Melinda’s actual nephew just turned seven, and he was born after me. I just think it's unfair that he's growing up faster than me.
In case you're wondering, the Ran writing this email is older than the one in the Curse Breaker series books. How much older? Maybe he's 14 like I should be.
(Melinda would like to point out that I'm actually 14 in Rogue Characters, book 3 of the Tales of the Curse Breaker in NY series which is out now in most places.
She'd also like to draw attention to the Rogue Gods Trilogy, where an alternate version of me is 21. But they don't count because they're not part of the main Curse Breaker series. So my grievance stands.)
But I can cross one more thing of my scribe's to-do list.
She got all our books reformatted and published through the be distributor except Chaos Rises since we're changing the cover. We're not sure that the process is for cover changes so Melinda held that one back for now since we don't have the full wrap cover for the new design.
It'll go up after the Kickstarter. I'm not sure if the final art will be ready before that but it'll definitely be ready by then because we don’t run kickstarters until every book is done.
With that crossed off the list, you might be wondering what Melinda will work on next.
The special edition of Curse Breaker Jousts!
And she's trying to finish Chaos Reigns, but the story is fighting her. It always does that so there's no reason to worry.
It’s trying to go in an unexpected direction. I'm not sure why my scribe always fights that. The story always wins in the end and she concedes the fight and lets it go where it wants.
So that's happening now. I'd give out spoilers but the wraths are scary and they might come after me if I do. So I'll just move on.
Melinda posted chapters 22-25 on Patreon and Substack this week. You can read them now. Chapter 25 is where the story takes a swing. A really big swing.
Back to Curse Breaker Jousts. I'm still researching what authors are doing for their special editions because it's the first one for a Curse Breaker book and the book is special to my scribe. So it must be perfect!
I keep coming across mentions of bonus content in special editions but they don't say what that bonus content is.
Have you bought any special editions with bonus content?
What was in the bonus content?
I know what you're wondering. Is this a ploy to get more page time?
Of course it is! This is me after all, and getting more page time is my primary concern. I’m trying to get some in Chaos Reigns, but the story is veering pretty hard away from that. I’ll keep trying and who knows? Maybe I’ll win.
I must get page time wherever I can. So why not in the bonus content?
If you’ve come across any bonus content and want something similar starring me and my family too, let me know.
So that’s what’s going on this week. If you missed the kickstarter for our new books, then you can grab them now. We even have boxed sets that collect all the books in two convenient packages:
That’s it for this week. See you next week!
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