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City of the Lost God – Part 16 – The Kveld

30/1/2015

City of the Lost God – Part 16 – The Kveld
Word Count 6,778

After Dark Angels, Undead, Werewolves and worse. It seemed about time to introduce a Ghūl into the story. Tarin will be a slow burning character for a while, but one day, after Babaef becomes…………. But I’m getting ahead of the story.

No more teasers for now………….. read and enjoy.

Ed

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Ruby – Chapter 2 – The Accident

23/1/2015

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Ruby – Chapter 2 – The Accident
Word count 6,050

We meet Spider, the thirty five year old ex-soldier who will be a major character in the story. This is the last chapter to contain parts of the original teaser from 2012.

Ruby is fun to write, I hope you enjoy it………….

Ed - January 2015

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Ruby – Chapter 1 – The Party

16/1/2015

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Ruby – Chapter 1 – The Party
5,013 words

A completely different style and pace from the Mendera trilogy. Ruby is set now and in the world we all know. The finished book will be around 90,000 words and should take just under a year to finish. If it gets read and people seem to like it, then there will be other ‘Ruby’ books.

No teasers or hints at the future direction of the story……. You’ll have to read it.

Ed - Jan 2015

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Ruby will be published as chapters.

8/1/2015

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The original plan was to give the trilogy away and then write Ruby as a traditional book, which hopefully would be bought by people who liked my writing style. Then I began to look at the reality of 21st Century publishing. Look at the books in supermarkets and you’ll see the problem, wall to wall celebrity cook books, travel books etc. Publishers now will only talk to Lit Agents and Lit Agents need to be fairly certain of a decent pay day from those they sign up. In short, not a good time to be a new author who doesn’t want to do a cook book or write to a formula.

As to self-publishing on Amazon?! The problem is that once again you have to be a large publisher to get a fair deal. It’s no secret; most books on Amazon will sell just a few hundred copies, no matter how well the author promotes them. The big publishers have the right PR connections, the right shop windows, the right contacts in the media. By the time you’ve bought your ISBN number, a decent cover and paid for an editor to give your masterpiece the once over….. I really wonder how many self-publishers ever cover their own costs, let alone make sensible money.

The problem isn’t really Amazon; the public have become used to online content being either cheap or free. Free papers, free music from pirates, free movies from torrent sites, etc. It’s not just authors that are having a hard time. Musicians find it hard to make money out of 99p downloads too. I see a lot of writers that I respect offering their books for free on Amazon, or being pressured to join the Kindle Prime freebie library. There are book sites like Wattpad, Authonomy, Figment, Booksie, even Goodreads. I quite like these sites, but they are highly commercial and quite insular and although great fun, they don’t seem a decent way to get your work out to the general public. I have likened Wattpad to being Facebook with much larger messages and I think that was a fair comment.

In the end I asked myself why I wrote and it isn’t about seeing the book on Amazon and thinking ‘fame at last’…… Yes that was a joke! In the end I think most people write to get their story read, to have that magic moment when a reader will tell you off for how you treated a character. Personally I think I can do that best by publishing a regular amount of work on my websites and offering all content for free. Of course, if you’re a publisher and think Ruby or Kittara might be just the thing to add to your portfolio………….send me an email.

Ruby chapter 1 will be posted to the web on Friday 16th Jan.

Ed Cowling – Jan 2015

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Mendera Temple – Chapter 24 – Full Circle

6/1/2015

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Mendera Temple – Chapter 24 – Full Circle
Word Count 4,278

The final chapter! The book is 167,707 words, which is about 560 pages.

No teasers, hopefully there are still a few surprises. The City of the Lost God will continue every month and I have other ideas. But I’m going to let the dust settle a bit before starting on the next writing project.

Thank you to all the people who’ve stuck with the story since book 1 in the trilogy. May chaos always pass you in the night!

Ed Jan 2015

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City of the Lost God – Part 16 – The Kveld

Ruby – Chapter 2 – The Accident

Ruby – Chapter 1 – The Party

Ruby will be published as chapters.

Mendera Temple – Chapter 24 – Full Circle

Author - Ed Cowling

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