If you build it...
(Field of Dreams; wonderful movie btw)
Before I start, if you have anything you'd like to request of me going forward, feel free to say so in the comments here or by message. Thanks
Hello and thank you for reading this humble blog post of mine. I really wanted to take an opportunity to put this one together right, which hopefully explains why I'm posting it two days late (according to my personal schedule, anyway).
So, I've got this wonderful set up now as a Goodreads author. By signing up with the site, I've already seen some more traffic on Facebook and I know Malcolm appreciates anybody stopping by his DeviantArt page.
On top of that, Arawn's Quest has been downloaded a total of 1141 times this month alone over at Amazon and Zen's Heritage has been purchased over 10. Much thanks to anybody who is a part of those numbers.
By now, you're probably wondering what I'm getting at here. Well, when we started Northwinter Press in August 2010 (Has it really been 1.5 years?), We knew what kind of competition we were getting into. D&D has so many established settings in all of its iterations, and the fans of those settings may or may not always branch somewhere else, that to introduce something new borders on insanity. Even the other independant publishers out there often fall apart after a short time because they don't see immediate reward and make the (often correct) decision to spend their time and money elsewhere.
But, call him crazy, Malcolm said then and there that Northwinter Press won't be going anywhere. We are here to stay, for better or worse. With that established, we punched things into overdrive and (despite a lull here and there) have really been pushing strong since then.
The best part, of course, is that there are no foreseeable plans to stop. The Zen Chronicles, and really all of Pnumadesi, are only two stories and a 4th edition D&D player's guide in. With that setting alone, we still have a timeline built from the creation of the world through several generations even after the end of the current novels; and that's just for the continent on which Arawn and his friends travel. There are actually 5 other continents about which we've got heroes, villains, settings, and stories. By creating this universe, we've really tapped a wellspring of information and creative oil.
Now, how does all this tie into the title of the blog? Well, By putting this down today, I want to reassure anybody who happens to have read this far that Pnumadesi, and Northwinter Press for that matter, aren't going anywhere. So, strap in for the long haul. It's going to be an amazing ride.
Before I start, if you have anything you'd like to request of me going forward, feel free to say so in the comments here or by message. Thanks
Hello and thank you for reading this humble blog post of mine. I really wanted to take an opportunity to put this one together right, which hopefully explains why I'm posting it two days late (according to my personal schedule, anyway).
So, I've got this wonderful set up now as a Goodreads author. By signing up with the site, I've already seen some more traffic on Facebook and I know Malcolm appreciates anybody stopping by his DeviantArt page.
On top of that, Arawn's Quest has been downloaded a total of 1141 times this month alone over at Amazon and Zen's Heritage has been purchased over 10. Much thanks to anybody who is a part of those numbers.
By now, you're probably wondering what I'm getting at here. Well, when we started Northwinter Press in August 2010 (Has it really been 1.5 years?), We knew what kind of competition we were getting into. D&D has so many established settings in all of its iterations, and the fans of those settings may or may not always branch somewhere else, that to introduce something new borders on insanity. Even the other independant publishers out there often fall apart after a short time because they don't see immediate reward and make the (often correct) decision to spend their time and money elsewhere.
But, call him crazy, Malcolm said then and there that Northwinter Press won't be going anywhere. We are here to stay, for better or worse. With that established, we punched things into overdrive and (despite a lull here and there) have really been pushing strong since then.
The best part, of course, is that there are no foreseeable plans to stop. The Zen Chronicles, and really all of Pnumadesi, are only two stories and a 4th edition D&D player's guide in. With that setting alone, we still have a timeline built from the creation of the world through several generations even after the end of the current novels; and that's just for the continent on which Arawn and his friends travel. There are actually 5 other continents about which we've got heroes, villains, settings, and stories. By creating this universe, we've really tapped a wellspring of information and creative oil.
Now, how does all this tie into the title of the blog? Well, By putting this down today, I want to reassure anybody who happens to have read this far that Pnumadesi, and Northwinter Press for that matter, aren't going anywhere. So, strap in for the long haul. It's going to be an amazing ride.
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