LIGHTNOVELONLINE Announcement
Hello everyone !
So, for those of you who have been reading the author's notes, most of this announcement won't be much of a surprise. For those of you who haven't, let me summarise.
A few weeks ago I was contacted by a publisher. Then by another. Both were interested in publishing my stories (The Fallen World : A Dungeon's Story, and The Eternal Seeker Saga), as an ebook, paperback, and even in an audiobook format.
I'm proud to announce that I have accepted one of those offers and signed on with Shadow Alley Press for both of my stories !
Which brings me to another part of this announcement. For TESS, things are fairly simple, the story is recently written, the chapters are of reasonable length, and it is was built from the get go to be made into a novel.
The Fallen World...not so much. Which means that I've started tackling the issue of reformatting the mess that was the earlier chapters into something more reasonable. I've also taken the occasion to fix some of the more flagrant errors and plot holes. And (thank the Gods) I'll have a crew of professionals to back me up all the way rather than just me flailing around in the dark like I usually do !
Now results won't be immediate -the process takes time- but eventually there should be a fully corrected, hopefully much more easy to read, The Fallen World : A Dungeon's Story novel. And hopefully a great deal many will follow on suit, as I convert the rest of the story to the novel format, and keep writing on.
And if you are wondering, yes, the publication of the novels means most likely going through KDP, which means that those part of the stories will have to be pulled off of Royal Road. Some of you might have recalled that I had promised not to do so bar an emergency. So, what is the emergency ?
Simple. I failed my university year. So completely and utterly that recovering it in the second session of exams is basically impossible. And that leaves me with a choice. Either I focus on my studies, which means at the very least dropping one of my stories, if not both...or I take a sabbatical year, and see if I can make my writing work. As you can see, I've chosen the latter. Worse comes to worse, I fail, and go back to my studies like a good little robot.
If I succeed....Well, I'll finally be doing something I like, and won't be following my family's wishes like a Gods-damned automaton. And I'll get paid for it !
Anyway, I know this announcement won't be well received by many, it's not exactly a secret that any story that announces a switch to amazon publishing or just more traditional publishing, even if the story remains on Royal Road, will get downvoted into oblivion. I'm not cancelling it however, it has taken a huge weight off of my shoulders, and I haven't felt better in years. Hell, I wrote 21k words in the last two days alone, and that's if you just count chapters, not lore files or story outlines.
I hope you'll have a nice day. Playwars, out.