Andrew M. Tanner's Blog
February 4, 2020
Bringing Ragnarok: Book Four live on Amazon!
Book Four, concluding The Second Fimbulwinter, is now available on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084GDKR7H
Book Five coming July 2020!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084GDKR7H
Book Five coming July 2020!
January 9, 2019
Bringing Ragnarok Book 2 Available!
Getting this posted a bit late, but wanted to say that Book 2 of the Bringing Ragnarok series is available on Amazon - free to read if you are a Prime customer.
And if you enjoy Book 1 and Book 2, please rate and/or review on Goodreads, and Amazon if you have the time and inclination. Good reviews do wonders for visibility!
And if you enjoy Book 1 and Book 2, please rate and/or review on Goodreads, and Amazon if you have the time and inclination. Good reviews do wonders for visibility!
November 20, 2018
Bringing Ragnarok Book 2 Update
I have taken to posting 'Developer Diaries' on my website, www.raednerian.org, and as a result have neglected this blog.
But to summarize where things stand with Book 2 in the Saga - well, production is ongoing! The first 1/4 or so has gone through 2 rounds of editing and is now with my main beta-reader, with the rest coming by the end of November.
So if you've read Book 1 and are eager for more of the Saga of Six Friends - Book 2 is coming at the end of December.
But to summarize where things stand with Book 2 in the Saga - well, production is ongoing! The first 1/4 or so has gone through 2 rounds of editing and is now with my main beta-reader, with the rest coming by the end of November.
So if you've read Book 1 and are eager for more of the Saga of Six Friends - Book 2 is coming at the end of December.
October 12, 2018
Bringing Ragnarok: Book 2 Draft Complete!
I'll allow myself a moment of self-congratulation now: Coming in at just over 140,000 words, Book 2 of the Bringing Ragnarok Saga is written!
Of course, that doesn't mean anyone would want to read it quite yet. Much surgery remains to be done to make it readable in the way I'd like it to be. One of my struggles as a writer is coming up with good metaphors and succinct descriptions. While a Tolkien fan to the max (I'm allowed to say that because I was born in the '80s) I fully realize that he, well, sometimes went on. And on. As my spouse and I joke, Tolkien loved his hills. And made sure to describe each one in full detail.
Me, I can re-read Tolkien's entire Legendarium every year (and usually do, particularly in as hard a year as this has been), but most people don't like unnecessary detail in a narrative. So the next two months I'll be at my keyboard just as much as over the past three-plus.
Still, I call a completed draft an achievement, even if some of the dialog currently goes like "You are dumb," Loke said, grinning maniacally, "and I am a god. Hah hah hah."
Not exactly prime-time material, as the saying goes. According to Civilization 6, Mark Twain once said that "writing is easy, all you have to do is cross out all the wrong words."
Yup. Yup.
Of course, that doesn't mean anyone would want to read it quite yet. Much surgery remains to be done to make it readable in the way I'd like it to be. One of my struggles as a writer is coming up with good metaphors and succinct descriptions. While a Tolkien fan to the max (I'm allowed to say that because I was born in the '80s) I fully realize that he, well, sometimes went on. And on. As my spouse and I joke, Tolkien loved his hills. And made sure to describe each one in full detail.
Me, I can re-read Tolkien's entire Legendarium every year (and usually do, particularly in as hard a year as this has been), but most people don't like unnecessary detail in a narrative. So the next two months I'll be at my keyboard just as much as over the past three-plus.
Still, I call a completed draft an achievement, even if some of the dialog currently goes like "You are dumb," Loke said, grinning maniacally, "and I am a god. Hah hah hah."
Not exactly prime-time material, as the saying goes. According to Civilization 6, Mark Twain once said that "writing is easy, all you have to do is cross out all the wrong words."
Yup. Yup.
September 18, 2018
100,000 word mark on Book 2
Today I passed the 100k word mark on the draft of Bringing Ragnarok Book 2. Woo!
Just thought I'd mark the occasion. Something psychologically significant about the 100k mark, at least for me. I suppose that's where I go from thinking 'is this really a book?' to 'yeah, it's a book. Stuff happens.'
Just thought I'd mark the occasion. Something psychologically significant about the 100k mark, at least for me. I suppose that's where I go from thinking 'is this really a book?' to 'yeah, it's a book. Stuff happens.'
Hello Goodreads!
It was a pleasant surprise to see readers enjoying my work, and rating Bringing Ragnarok on Goodreads.
Because I am writing a work that is, at heart, feminist and postcolonial, I'm already attracting alt-right haters (as I knew would happen).
So anyone willing to write a review on Amazon, I would be very grateful!
I also blog about Bringing Ragnarok (and sometimes other stuff) on my website, www.raednerian.org
Each week or so, I write a 'Developer Diary' type pose discussing stuff that comes up in the writing process. I also give regular updates on Book 2 progress, which is scheduled to release late in December. And then I'm on to Book 3, tentatively scheduled to release in June 2019.
Happy reading, and thank you for your support!
Because I am writing a work that is, at heart, feminist and postcolonial, I'm already attracting alt-right haters (as I knew would happen).
So anyone willing to write a review on Amazon, I would be very grateful!
I also blog about Bringing Ragnarok (and sometimes other stuff) on my website, www.raednerian.org
Each week or so, I write a 'Developer Diary' type pose discussing stuff that comes up in the writing process. I also give regular updates on Book 2 progress, which is scheduled to release late in December. And then I'm on to Book 3, tentatively scheduled to release in June 2019.
Happy reading, and thank you for your support!
