Chapter is coming along. There’ll be a short delay, mostly because I didn’t hear my alarm and woke up late, but it’ll be up within the hour!

Once, a little boy was given a book by a friend of his father’s, who thought it was cute that a ten-year-old liked big books without pictures in them.

The boy had ready many books until then, but this one was special. It had a serious story, but it was funny, too. It had footnotes, which the boy had never seen before in a fun book, only in his father’s boring textbooks. And the story was weird, too. Familiar, but making fun of it. As if the person telling the story was talking about the story, as well. Making fun of it, but also telling the boy why it was good, and why it was important.

As he read it, the boy started to think about stories. He had always liked telling stories, lots of them. Since kindergarden, really. But he’d never really paid much attention to them, as stories. Just tales to be made up and told, or retold after he heard or read them.

That boy began to write, and think about the writing, and the stories he told. And now he’s become man who writes novels, and does what he can to help others think about stories and write them, too.

All that, because of a book called Mort.

Some of you may remember when I presented MageLife by my friend, Tempest, here on this blog.

Well, Tempest has finally completed his serial, edited it and put it up on Amazon for just 2,99! Check it out by this link. And check out the free serial version in case you haven’t yet.

Blurb (courtesy of yours truly):

For five years, Tristan has been preparing himself. For five years, he studied the secrets of the Arcane Art that lives in his very blood and bones. Now, he has become a Mage, a wielder of awesome power, capable of creating and destroying life. The power drawn from the very fabric of reality at his fingertips.
Thus he is assigned to a post in his home town which is in need of the assistance that only a true master of the Arcane can provide. And his first great working shall be…
Fixing the local irrigation system. And taking care of a premature girl mage. Oh, and his superior is a jerk.
Such is the Life of a Mage

Hello dear readers,

I just want to shamelessly promote kspam’s Urban Fantasy Web Serial, Goodfae.

It’s a story set in the late twenties and early thirties of the 20th century, centered around Alfonso, a young mafioso just inducted into a mafia family who’s out to make money for the sake of treating his sick sister.

The twist is that, during World War I – or The Great War, as it was known at that time – the supernatural world went public, and now the mobs and policemen both use all kinds of magic in their war, too!

The story has just entered its second arc, and it’s shaping up to be one of the good ones, so check it out!

Sincerely,

Tieshaunn

the Vra arc is under heavy construction. unfortunately, since I’m in greece and catching up with family and stuff right now, I haven’t had as much time to work on it as I like.

Still, I’ve finished the outlines for all the chapters and am now working on the first one. looking good already, but due to the nature of this particular arc, work is going slower than it normally would after finishing the outline.

The current state is:

• B008.1 Vra: Anger (about 20% complete)
• B008.2 Vra: Bargaining
• B008.3 Vra: Denial
• B008.4 Vra: Depression
• B008.5 Vra: Acceptance

As you can see, I’ve upgraded this story to a main arc, instead of an interlude arc. That’s because more and more main storyline stuff kept sneaking into it, until I decided to just drop the pretense and do an all out arc.

But since it has to come in those five chapters to fit the theme I’m following, each chapter will probably be around 7000+ words, and so it’s taking more time than usual.

On the other hand, I’m quite confident that this one can turn out to be my best work yet, so look forward to it!

Here’s a preview.

Sincerely,

Tieshaunn

Here’s a new addition to the evergrowing collection of original web fiction:

MageLife – The Tale of a Punch-Clock Mage

Written by a friend of mine, Tempest, it deals with a young mage who just finished his education, got a post in a remote village… and has to deal with problems like irrigation systems, monsters in the woods and premature witches in need of some magic lessons.

There is no fixed update schedule, as the author is just now making his first forays into writing, and he needs all the support we can give him. Take a look, comment, criticize – it’ll be worth it!

Sincerely,

Tieshaunn

/server -m irc.darkmyst.net

/join #TheLostWoods

This is an idea I’ve been turning over in my head for a while now. A channel for authors to chat, exchange ideas or just tell really lame jokes.

Anyone who has written, drawn or in any other way produced some manner of fiction is welcome to join me there.

Also, I just discovered, thanks to Tempest, another web serial, written by/on The Pen in the Stone, called “The Enhanced”. The basic premise is that the Enhanced are hunted, because one of them nuked LA. I haven’t read more than the prelude, yet, but it looks very promising.

Also, I’m GREEN with envy for the name. Pen in the Stone. Why didn’t I think of that!?

Sincerely,

Tieshaunn