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Prospectus 2023, Part 2

February 20, 2023 by Tony Andarian Leave a Comment

In my last post (Prospectus 2023, Part 1), I talked about how I’ve spent the last year getting over most of the “learning curve” for my new writing and publishing career. In this post, I’m going to talk a little about some of my plans for what to do with that new knowledge.

I’ll start with an update on my major task last week, which was to do a deep dive on the extensive documentation for Scrivener 3’s new features. Scrivener’s a fantastic writing tool for serious authors, and I’ve used it for most of the last decade. It has many powerful capabilities, and it takes a lot of time and study to learn how to use them fully. That’s especially true of some of the new ones added since the version 3 upgrade.

I learned enough of Scrivener’s new compile system last month to create the upload file for the new Dawn of Chaos paperback. I spent much of last week learning the rest, along with its new “style” system. As a result, I’ve now been able to create fully functional template for the upcoming books in the Sanctum saga. That’ll start with the next volume, Crucible of Heroes. All I have to do now is write them. 😁

I’ve also made a “release strategy” decision on something that I’ve been debating for a while. I had decided to break Dawn of Chaos into an e-book trilogy consisting of a full-length novel (Hell Gate) sandwiched between prologue and epilogue novellas (Prologue to Chaos and Aftermath). I then released Dawn of Chaos as a “compilation volume” of all three, in e-book, print, and (coming soon), audiobook formats. That’s the pattern I’m planning to continue for the remainder of the nine planned volumes in the series. Each will come out first as a trilogy of e-books (consisting, typically, of two novels and a novella), which will then be published as a collection in e-book, print, and audio. So Sanctum of the Archmage will, essentially, be a ten volume series of trilogies.

I’m also planning to end an experiment I tried with further breaking the novels into a rapid-release series of “episodes,” as I did with Hell Gate. To put it simply, that just did not work out. So the next book, Wrath of the Peregrine King, will not be coming out in two parts, as I’d suggested in some of my newsletters last year. It will be a full length novel, and likely won’t be available until summer 2023. I am still thinking about whether I could develop an “interim release” strategy for parts of the series, so that interested readers might have a way to get some of it in installments. But if I do, it’ll likely be through a subscription service like Patreon or Locals, and wait until I actually have enough interested readers to make it worthwhile. 😉

Wrath of the Peregrine King

In the meantime, I’m going to get busy on my two major book publishing projects: writing Wrath of the Peregrine King (WPK), and publishing Dawn of Chaos as an audiobook. Writing WPK will be especially interesting for me, because it’s the one book in the series that I didn’t already have an outline for. Readers may know that I’ve been working on this story “in my head” for decades, and that much of Volumes Three and Four (The Sight and The Miracle Worker) are already familiar to players of my Sanctum RP Adventure games. WPK represented a gap in the tale that needed to be filled, though, and I’m looking forward to finally filling it.

That’s all for now. In Part 3 of my “Prospectus 2023” series, I’ll go into some of my other upcoming project plans for the months and years ahead. I’m excited to talk about that because I feel very much as though this last year has been all about “getting things ready” for those future plans, and that 2023 will be the year when I can actually start moving forward on them. So stay tuned!

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Prospectus 2023, Part 1

February 13, 2023 by Tony Andarian Leave a Comment

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It’s the heart of winter here in the mid-Atlantic US. It’s the best time of year to curl up with a cup of hot chocolate, and a pile of nascent projects for a new year of writing and professional growth. So I thought I’d share some of them, in a series of posts starting with this one, over the next few weeks.

It’s been a while since I’ve had much to say publicly about my plans. That’s partly because I’m still learning and figuring out how to make this whole “start a publishing company and author career out of basically nothing” thing work, but I’m making progress. Agonizingly slow progress to be sure, and filled with sobering revelations about how much more learning and work such plans actually take to move forward, but progress nonetheless.

Fortunately, I’m over most of the “indie author learning curve” I began just under a year ago. I’ve figured out how to create and budget for indie business; how to publish wide; how to network with other authors, and, increasingly, potential readers; how to find artists and commission covers; how to publish e-books, and now, print books, on a schedule (more or less); and a host of other details too mundane to be of interest to anyone without a mild streak of masochism. Doing that while also figuring out how to adjust my life from having a full-time tech career to being a (not entirely willing) early retiree has been a challenge, but that’s working out as well.

The only major tasks left on my publishing “learning curve” are to figure out how to create and sell an audiobook, and how to effectively market and get visibility for my work. I should be able to work out the first over the next few months. The marketing part I saved for last, since it requires having at least a modest body of work in publication, and I expect it to be an ongoing and constantly adjusting process. There’s a simple reason for that: because no one in publishing has a formula for it. I’ve read up on it extensively, though, and I’m getting ready to try some things out on a larger and more consistent scale. Whatever else 2023 will be about for me, it’ll be that.

That, of course, and writing. Now that I’ve got enough things settled, I’m ready to resume work on the next novel in the Sanctum of the Archmage Saga: Crucible of Heroes – Wrath of the Peregrine King. That’s now officially back on the front burner again, and I’ll have more to say about it in Part II. 🙂

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Dawn of Chaos Excerpt on EPIC!

February 9, 2023 by Tony Andarian Leave a Comment

Huge thanks to the great folks at EPIC – The Home of Indie Fantasy and Sci-Fi for featuring an excerpt from my book, Sanctum of the Archmage: Dawn of Chaos. Now available in e-book and paperback editions. Link below!

BOOK EXCERPT: SANCTUM OF THE ARCHMAGE: DAWN OF CHAOS, BY TONY ANDARIAN

To read more excerpts from Sanctum of the Archmage, see the saga’s “book samples” page:

Sanctum of the Archmage: Free Samples!

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The Measure of an Archmage

February 8, 2023 by Tony Andarian Leave a Comment

From Sanctum of the Archmage: Dawn of Chaos, by Tony Andarian.

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Gerard’s eyes lit up. “Of course!” he cried. “You said that Grandfather was a master of its power, and that he didn’t even need it to become Archmage. Imagine what he could do with it now! Would he not be like a demigod, were he to wield the full force of its might?”

“I have always thought so,” the King mused. “And though he never said as much, I believe that is why he eschewed using it, and bequeathed it to me as soon as he could.”

Gerard frowned. “I don’t understand,” he said.

“Your grandfather is the greatest wizard in all of Kalara, Gerard,” Danor explained. “And heir to its greatest throne. But he has always disliked the very idea of wielding power over others. That is why he was always such a reluctant king. It’s why he refused the crown until he had no choice — when his brother, King Victor, was killed, and he was the last of our line.”

“What does that have to do with the ring?” Gerard asked.

“It has an effect on the wearer. More so over time, and the more it is used. It … encourages the temperament to wield its power to rule. That, at least in part, is what it was made for. It takes wisdom and strength of will to keep that influence in check.”

“I see,” Gerard said. “Has it affected you, too, then, Father?”

“To an extent,” the King replied slowly. “But I spent many years under your grandfather’s tutelage, studying how to rule justly and wisely. And the unique bond I have with your mother has also helped to keep me grounded.”

He glanced at Elena, and she smiled at him.

“So that’s why he abdicated in your favor when you were old enough to take the throne,” Gerard said.

“And why he gave the ring to me when he did,” Danor added. “I can’t think of anyone with less of a taste for the role of ‘demigod’ than your grandfather.”

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Dawn of Chaos, Paperback Edition!

February 3, 2023 by Tony Andarian Leave a Comment

The print on demand edition of Dawn of Chaos is finally available!

The new print version is a 440 page 6×9 inch paperback on groundwood eggshell paper. It features a cover by Alex Perkins, and full color duplex cover interior maps made by me. You can order it online from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and others listed below.

Or stop by your local bookstore and have them order it! Just give them the ISBN: 978-1-959155-08-9.

Order the paperback edition of Dawn of Chaos online from the bookstores listed below:

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Or click the image to the right to order the e-book!

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