Jeffrey Quyle's Blog - Posts Tagged "magic"

Jeffrey QuyleLook for publication of "An Unexpected Deity" within the next ten days! The proofreaders are going over the manuscript right now. The cover art has been chosen, and is available for view on the Ingenairii Series Facebook page; it's by the same artist who designed the last cover. My thanks to Crystal for developing such a delightful work for this book!

Writing about Grange was fun. Writing about all the heroes and characters who have come to life in my stories has been fun! But Alec has a special place in my heart because he was the first character who inspired me to discover his story, and so I've decided to take a step back, and develop the story of his further adventures.

The writing has begun. There's not enough to even have a working title yet, but I have a sense of the general direction the story is going to move in. It's a wide landscape. Already, there are travels across the continent, from the Dominion to the Avonellene Empire, and a lacerta who is a major character.

Stay tuned - I expect to be ready to publish this new work in May or June, and perhaps publish a second novel this year as well.

I hope you'll enjoy this new adventure. Thank you all for your patience, loyalty, and kindness. I look forward to connecting with you again soon!

With the publication last month of "The Cloud of Darkness" I've written about the adventures of Alec in the Dominion for the first time in several years. Technically, parts of the book are set in the Avonellene Empire and the land of the Twenty Cities, but the heart of the stories about Alec remains in the Dominion. I found that I had to do a fair amount of research to recollect names and details about places visited in the past, and I hope that readers will enjoy the returns in the short novel that takes us back to Alec. The plot line is a fairly simple one, and this series will only be a two book addition to Alec's life story, and then it will be on to something new. The writing has been slow this year due to many distractions - wonderful and positive events, but distractions from the time I could spend writing. Nonetheless, look for the second book to be published before the end of the year to close out this plot line.

Thank you to the readers who have picked up the recently published new volume in the Ingenairii Series. Book 11, "The Cloud of Darkness", is the first of two volumes this year that extend the story of Alec. This short extension of the series will wrap up with the book that I'm currently writing, "The Past Revisited". The story for this new book is about one third written, and should be released in November. It's been a fun plot with a great deal of time traveling involved, and some old friends seen once again.

The manuscript is complete! "The Past Revisited" is now a step closer to completion. If the proofreading and copy editing process goes smoothly, I think the story will reach the Kindle page in late October.

Theus's story has been a joy to create, and it feels as though the words have come with greater ease than any extended narrative I've produced since the beginning of Kestrel's story among the kingdoms of the Inner Seas.

The third book is underway, and - for the most part - has continued to stick to the plot outline that I created before launching this series. Knowing what scenarios to stick to and what each chapter is leading to helps keep the flow going...it avoids writing into a dead end, as sometimes happens.

I expect this book to be available on Kindle in mid-July. There is no working title at this point, but if I had to make one up on the spur of the moment, it might be "The Return to Home". We'll see of that feels right in a few weeks!

'Tangled Engagements' manuscript is progressing nicely. July was a productive month, despite the time I spent binge-watching Big Bang Theory and The Lizzy Bennett Diaries instead of composing.
The first draft of the manuscript will finish up in August, with editing and proofing to follow. This manuscript is deviating from the original plot outline I wrote back in the winter, as the end of the story line approaches. But I think everything is going to end up approximately where I expected!

It's done! The manuscript for "Tangled Engagements" is finished! Editing to begin this week, & publication likely near Labor Day weekend!

We have five authors who are collaborating to help market one another's novels during the first week of Sept.

Each author will mark down the price of a best-selling book on Kindle for a day during that week. Most of us have readers who like one another's works, so we hope we're appealing to an audience that will enjoy and benefit from this marketing discount.

That's five books that open up five fantasy series, each book for $0.99! I hope you enjoy!

The books on sale each day will be:

Sunday, Sept. 3 - Journey Through the River Cities by Jeffrey Quyle - Deal Price: $0.99 It's my book, obviously!

Monday, Sept. 4 - The Legacy by JD Franx - Deal Price: $0.99 Legacy- Darkness-Within-Saga
Blurb: Banished, returned, and hunted, all for magic destined to destroy the world of Talohna. All for magic Kael Symes can't even use.

Tuesday, Sept. 5 - Benjamin Ashwood by AC Cobble - Deal price: $0.99 Blurb: Follow Benjamin Ashwood as he embarks on an epic journey with powerful strangers. As the first book of this six part series unfolds, Ben finds the world is more complicated and deadly than he ever imagined.

Wednesday, Sept. 6 - Child of the Daystar by Bryce O'Connor - Deal Price: $0.99 Blurb: Raz i'Syul Arro has taken the art of war and made it a masterpiece. Join the world's most feared mercenary in this epic installment to the Bestselling series!

Thursday, Sept. 7 - Fatemarked by David Estes - Deal price: $0.99 Blurb: In the spirit of fantasy epics like Throne of Glass and The Lord of the Rings, enter a world of magic and dragons, kings and queens, and victory and defeat, during a time when honor and valor still meant something.

On sale today on Amazon Kindle! Monday, Sept. 4 - The Legacy by JD Franx - Deal Price: $0.99 This is one of this week's specials from our group of fantasy writers! This book has received lots of positive reviews from reader