Welcome to the Eighth City Blog! We’re excited to begin sharing and interacting with everyone out there on the interwebs! We’ve got big plans for this blog and hope you’ll be an important part of our growing community!

As the publishing process begins for The Eighth City series I’ve been very lucky. My team, Victoria, Lauren, and Trish have been incredible with helping to market, edit, and illustrate “A Torch in the Darkness”. I’ve had family and friends who have been very supportive and have been kind enough to read my work. And even better, people have been giving me constructive and positive feedback. It’s an incredible feeling, but there is so much more to come.

While we do have an exciting plan for the rest of the 11 stories to come out for The Eighth City, there is more to this than a simple story. We have a lot we want to accomplish but the first, and one of the most important for us, is Community.

We want YOU to be a part of this. We want to build a community of artists, be they writers, illustrators, painters, dancers, musicians, or anything else who can participate and grow with the help of The Eighth City. We’re inviting you to bring your talents, be they video editing, story creation, or anything else, and apply them to our world.

It is my hope that within the near future you will be able to hear music inspired by The Eighth City or experience incredible fan art. I look forward to other authors and writers stepping forward to write a story within the world of the Enlightened Continent or write the back-story to a little-known character. We want you to engage with our work and when you produce something, we want to be there to sponsor it and spread it to the world. We want to be the platform that you can leap off to begin an illustrious career in whatever inspires you.

Even more, we want to hear from you! We don’t just want your work. We want to know what you think of the story, even if you didn’t like it. We want to know where you think it’s going or what your favorite part was. More importantly, we want to know YOU. We want to get to know the people who are engaging in our work. We want this community to reach across political, economic, and cultural boundaries to come together in honor of what binds us together: Our humanity as seen in a story.

Many thanks for reading and I hope you will reach out, through the power of social media, to us. We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

R.C.