Okay, so I've been somewhat busy  (hence the lack of posts), so, sorry for that. 

They're here!  Elflings is finally out and available now!  It's a big day.  I may have been off the net for a while, but I have not been idle.  A new edit of Quest of the Demon and a new e-book cover.  Get your copy now for free, yes free, for the month of December!

Elflings too makes its debut online.  Check it out on Smashwords;

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/256184

Links for Amazon soon to follow.

For the good Friday Appeal (which can be donated to year round), I am donating $5per book sold.  This special offer is just in time for Christmas and is a good idea if you can't find anything to give someone for Christmas!  Also, pre order your copy of Elflings now at this special discounted price!  Offer expires 30th of November.

Kids Event - The Reading Hour at Wyndham Vale Library

Join us for this jointly hosted event between Wyndham Libraries and Kumon to celebrate the National Year of Reading. We invite families to come along and share the joy of reading.

Our special guest at this event will be a local author, and illustrator of a wonderful new children's book.

When
2:00 pm Saturday 25/08/12

Where
Wyndham Vale Library (Crn of Derrimut Rd and Heaths Rd)

Cost
Free event.

Guess what... that local author is... du du du daaaahhhh... Me :).  Come and support the reading hour where we're trying to promote reading to your children and reading in general!

I will have a few copies of Tallen and Quest of the Demon on the day in case anyone would like an autographed copy.

Excerpt from Elflings-

""Ha!" he yelled to the sky, receiving a mouthful of snow that he simply chewed and swallowed.  "Is that it?" he asked.  "A pissing snow drift?  It takes more than that to kill me you maggot ridden butt stain!"  With nothing but anger fuelling a new burst in energy, Elonan began to step forward into the blizzard."  Out Dec 2012!

Just thought I'd throw in a paragraph to try and show you who Elonan is... he's not your average main character.  Hero, chivalrous, generous... not words I'd use to describe his personality :).

Don't forget that if you order 2 or more books from Equilibrium- you get a 15% discount!  http://www.equilibriumbooks.com/store.htm 

Finally... who knows how many years this novel was in the making!  At a guess, I'm pretty sure I started Elflings in 2001.

Anyway, final edit is completed!  It has been sent to the publisher today so now I can relax and have some fun.  The book teaser video has begun (which always gives me a laugh.)  Whatch this space as I'll post it as soon as I'm done.

The official Elflings cover will be online soon and for those who would like to pre-order, will let you know once it's on-line.

Wish me luck.  In between doing the book teaser, the next draft of Silence Rising has begun!

Some of you may remember my first attempt at making a home made book teaser.  Quest of the Demon book teaser, uploaded Jan 2011 I was surprised to actually get some views (up to 569)... but, if you look at it, (unless you are comparing it to when color tv was introduced), it's pretty basic.

From there, just over 6 months later, the book Teaser for Tallen was created.  Now this was a bit of an advance for me as I actually had some very basic animation.  Having photoshop as opposed to just paint as my art program helped a lot, 588 views and no real comments, some likes and looks like 1 dislike (oh well)...

My question is, for the tech savi out there, any suggestions on improvement for my book teasers?  Elflings will involve a ship, winged giant bat like monsters in a nightmare, traveling over snow dunes and the deadly swoop of an ice dragon... Let me know what you think.

Well, editing is going along smoothly.  I have made it to about half way!  Edit has added another 5k to the manuscript... where do all the words come from I wonder?  Up to a 90k work of fantasy though I do find that as the writing progressess (since the first novel), it's not quite as YA as it should be.

I wonder, is it me changing my tastes, or is society getting less blaze about things?

Enough of the deep thought, Friday the 13th was a great night to get out and about to attend a themed trivia night.  No sexy vampire costume for me... Zombie all the way!  Needless to say my friend and I received a few good looks on our drive into the city!  Good night in all!