The Grey Wolf Strikes Back

My anthology of speculative fiction, Tales from Mistland & Other Oddities, will be on sale for 99c from tomorrow (02/25/22) until next Friday (03/04/22). https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09N9QL1H7

This was fun to read but it also reminds me that no one since Tolkien has really tried to write something in the same sort of mythical/biblical tone and that's a shame.

Best of luck!

@Gigei PMed you.

@Lin Meili Any improvement in your relative's condition? In other news, I finished a new short story titled "The Twelfth Traitor" and have started writing two more. The first is a sci-fi yarn I'm calling "A Girl Named Precious" and the second an interlude to Scotland's Heir we're calling "Where Our Lives Do Part", Scotland's Heir being a mix of King Arthur and George Buchanan's Rerum Scoticarum Historia as filtered through the gritty wars and politics of works like ASOIAF. After that, its back to "The Wolf in Red" and "The Dragonslayer's Daughter".

Double post.

Congrats @SpaceChampion!

Thanks.

@Derfel Cadarn Is arc short for article? (If so, I've learned something new.)

Congrats!

No worries! Thanks for responding! And best of luck finishing that anthology!

Nvm.

Nvm.

Btw, in y'all's experience what tends to work better in terms of promotion: Lowering your book's price or making it free?

I understand. Thanks for responding at least!

I pray not.

@Derfel Cadarn Thank you so much! @Lin Meili I understand. Hopefully, the disease clears up soon.

That sounds like pure torture to me. (Still not as bad as listening to Vogon poetry though.)

@Lin Meili Thanks. Will consider. (I thought about listing all the stories but feared readers would find it overwhelming and redundant since they can see the table of contents by clicking "look inside".)

@Lin Meili I am so sorry if I offended you! When I asked Lord Patrek for his input I was thinking more along the lines of how to implement your advice, not second-guessing the validity of it! Anyway, for what its worth, here is what I came up with: "Thirteen amazing short stories plus other written extras. Hero and villain. Fugitive and citizen. Irregulars have been all these things over recent years, especially the ones in Mistland, a Neo-Victorian kingdom out of place and time. But beyond that universe lay countless others. A world where dragons terrorize whole nations from the skies, a world where malcontents scheme for power just beyond the Round Table’s reach, and more. So kindle your hearth, sit down, and open the door to a new adventure. You won’t be disappointed. Because between these pages you will find/there is medieval skullduggery, tragic interspecies romance, gritty war drama, comic book adventures, gothic alternate history, and everything in-between. For/Indeed Tales from Mistland & Other Oddities has something for everyone...including/especially you, (curious traveler?)."

@Lord Patrek Facepalm. I'll ask. And thanks again for all the advice! Also, any thoughts regarding tweaking my blurb?

I got one comment and a few likes but no buyers.

@Lin Meili I'll see if I can tweak or expand my current blurb accordingly. (I take it I shouldn't mention the poems or vignettes in the bolded line?) @Derfel Cadarn I feared as much. Oh well. No harm done.

@Lord Patrek I asked the mods and making a post asking for reviews is strictly prohibited. There's a weekly promotion thread as well as a new releases thread (both of which I've posted in) but apart from that and mentioning it in comments (which will get marked as spam if you haven't build any rep) you have to have some sort of sale or giveaway to make a post solely to promote your book (and KDP Select doesn't let you run a reduced price promotion or freebie for the first month out of three). Therefore, I'm trying to just build up some rep (or karma as I think it's called on Reddit) so that around the 25th I can make a sales post without it getting flagged or taken down. In other news, a few more personal contacts have either bought the book or said they will once they have time. And a few among them have also agreed to post reviews once they've finished reading it. Any advice with regards to what Lin Meili said about the blurb being vague? Oh, and I made an author profile on Goodreads!

@Lin Meili 1) 3 of the short stories and all the vignettes are set in a shared comic book superhero-like setting known the Mistland Universe (so named after the fictitious Neo-Victorian country). A fourth short story is set in one of my co-authors' version of King Arthur, which we hope to expand with more stories in the future. 2) There honestly isn't really a theme beyond all the stories being different examples of fiction and the tone being generally somber. In fact, that's what I'm hoping will be one of the main draws. That there's something in it for everyone. To give a few examples, there's gritty war drama, alternate history gothic, tragic interspecies romance, and medieval skullduggery.