Dear reader who presumably likes pretty things,
DxD Press is doing a Chinese (Simplified Mandarin) translation of The Knight and the Necromancer, plus the 2 related short stories. They've been sending me snippets of cover art for a while, but I did not have permission to share them. Now I do! [In private fan groups, haha. Sorry, you need to actually be on my newsletter or Patreon to see this. And the newsletter has already gone out, so at this point, it’s only Patreon.]
I'm told the artist does not have a web presence, but uses she/her pronouns and goes by Biubiu or 咸鱼激光.
I'm so impressed with this cover, guys. The artist either read the book or had a very good synopsis. (Most cover artists can't or won't read the book.) The details here are wonderful.
Other fun stuff
I'm well into my Hunters Unlucky Marathon. I'll run the main novel, then "Awake" and "Water in the Desert," before proceeding into "Lullaby," and then the new books. If you've never listened to this book before, or it's been a long time, this is for you. If you enjoy my other work, please give this one a chance. It's my stealth favorite, though a little hard to explain.
I did an interview last month for for Geeks Out, which is a website devoted to geeky LGBT+ themed books.
Writing
I'm at 102,000+ words into Arcove's Bright Side. I just wrote some chapters that I've been looking forward to since starting the novel. Halvery's chase is my favorite of the (many) Hunters chase sequences. In these chapters, I reprise that chase with the characters on different sides and about 15 years older. Afterward, Storm and Halvery have a long heart-to-heart. It's good times.
What Else
I'm almost done with edits on about 25K words worth of notes from my original rewrite of the Hunters novel, full of my comments on the book and why I wrote what I wrote. I'll be including those with future books in the setting if you get them from my website.
I should have The Knight and the Necromancer complete series paper book by February, complete with new cover art (totally different from the Chinese version art).
I should also have the new Prophet collection with "Adagio" by February, also with adorable new cover art.
Pirates audio is on my to-do list, folks, but it will be a while.
I leave you with an image of domestic tranquility. Mochi in his cat tree, my dad reading below.
