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Their Spirit Unbroken

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It’s been a long journey, but we’ve finally arrived at the destination. As of this morning, Their Spirit Unbroken is out in the wild, ready to read.

Maybe it’s weird for an author to fall in love with a world of their creation. But the world of Relentless is one that I’ve become enamored with. Today, I’ve ended the journey that’s taken me over a year to write. I started wanting to write a magic system that was in part inspired by some of my favorite anime shows of my youth.

I quickly became obsessed with this question: what happens when a magic system changes?

How does the world react?

I’ll leave it at that for now 🙂

Thank you to everyone who picks up these books. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I’ve enjoyed writing them.

To celebrate the end of the journey, every book in the Relentless world is on sale for 99 cents until the 27th of November. You can check them all out below:

Relentless Souls (Book 1)

Heart of Defiance (Book 2)

Their Spirit Unbroken (Book 3)

Waterstone Update May 11, 2018

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Hey everyone,

I hope that all of you are going into the weekend excited! My family is traveling for a wedding this weekend, so I’m looking forward to spending time with both my immediate family and my extended ones.

Since the last update there hasn’t been a whole lot of change. The four projects mentioned there are still ongoing, with one major change:

I have finished the first draft of the conclusion to the Blades of the Fallen series. Unfortunately, the first draft is a really long way from the finished product, but it’s a step in the right direction!

The big question I often receive is when the book will be out and the series concluded. The short answer, right now, is that I don’t know. I don’t know if I will end up publishing through 47North (my preferred method), or if I’ll end up publishing it here through Waterstone. Regardless, my hope is that the book is out by the end of the year.

The other news is that the Primal Trilogy is now out and collected in one place. The ebook is live, and the paperback should be approved within the next two-three weeks. If you’re interested in checking out the story, there’s never been a better time.

Other than that, I continue to write and edit (and get in my daily round of disc golf if I can). I hope you all are doing well, and that you enjoy the weekend!

Ryan

Nightblade Announcement

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Top of the morning everyone!

I’ve got some big news today – news I’ve been sitting on for almost a full year now. This fall, a new book in the Nightblade universe is coming out. It’s called Nightblade’s Vengeance, and I’m really excited about it. If you’re interested in checking out the sales page, here it is:

Nightblade’s Vengeance

The reason I’ve been sitting on this for so long is because this is going to be my first book published through more traditional channels. I’ve partnered with 47North (Amazon’s sci-fi and fantasy imprint) to bring this book to life, and I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out.

Of course, everyone will have their own opinions, but I think this is the best book I’ve ever written.

The book comes out in all formats October 24, but it is available for pre-order right now. I know it’s still a long wait for the book, but I did want to let people know ahead of time. Right now the ebook is $3.99 in the US store, and it sounds like it’s selling for about the same in the UK store. I don’t have control over the final list price, so I wanted to let everyone know now.

I’ll be talking a lot more about the book in the future, but that’s enough for today.

Take care!

Ryan

NaNoWriMo and Halloween!

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Happy Halloween!

Bryce here. I hope you all have a great Halloween. I will be spending my evening watching my baby and editing my first draft. Scary right?

I wanted to talk about NaNoWriMo a little bit. Officially starting tomorrow, National Novel Writing Month prep has been going on for weeks now. This will be my first NaNoWriMo since I decided to start writing seriously. It took me a long time to finish my first book, and the one I have planned for November is an entirely different genre. I’m a little nervous.

I find it funny (and awesome) that a self imposed event with no actual accountability can carry such weight. I think that speaks to the success and widespread adoption of NaNoWriMo.

I am also amazed and comforted by the support groups and events that have come about. It seems like every week there is some writing group or a Skype session to help people stay on track. Hopefully I can make it to some!

I will keep you updated on my progress throughout the month. Ryan is working like a mad man (like always), so November won’t be much different for him!

If you are also participating in NaNoWriMo, let us know! We would love to compare progress and share war stories.

Have a spooky evening!

Bryce

Primal Dawn & Baby Kirk

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Hey Everybody!

First of all, a warm welcome to all the newcomers to this email list!  It’s been quite a while since I wrote (which I’ll explain below), and this list has grown substantially.  My sincere gratitude for allowing me into your email inboxes!

This email is going to be longer than most I send out, but it’s because I have both business and personal news to share.  I’ll do business first, so those of you who only want that can read it first and skip the rest of the email.

Primal Dawn!

I’ve hinted at this a little, but as of yesterday, my newest work, Primal Dawn, is available for pre-order on Amazon. Check it out here.  It officially releases on Sept. 26.  Primal Dawn is a shorter story, sitting somewhere between a novella and a short novel, depending on who you ask (about 50,000 words).  It’s a sci-fi story about first contact, with an advanced race coming into contact with a far more primitive one.  But, not everything is as it seems.

The cover and synopsis and link to the book are below:

Tev is a hunter, one of the best in his clan. Trained since birth in the art of tracking and killing, Tev has never met a challenge he couldn’t overcome. But when a mysterious fireball falls from the sky, Tev will question everything he has ever known. For the first time in his life, he isn’t the one doing the hunting.

He is the prey.

Primal Dawn is the first short novel of the Primal Series, spanning centuries of conflict following first contact. Each novel tells a complete story in the ongoing saga of two cultures learning to explore the vastness of space together.

Also, for those of you who are curious, I’m a little over halfway through the first draft of a new book set in the world of Nightblade.  I’ll have more on that later.

 

Welcoming the newest member of Waterstone!

The really big news in my life is that a few weeks ago, my wife and I welcomed our little baby girl into the world.  Baby Kirk came in at 7 lbs, 7 oz, and arrived exactly on her due date (I like to joke that my wife really is a rule-follower!).

There were some minor complications after she was born, but everyone is happy and healthy now, even if I’ve forgotten what a full night of sleep felt like.  But, because of her, I haven’t been as active writing and interacting as I’d like.  I expect that as I figure out this whole fatherhood thing, that will improve.

In any case, as always, I’m grateful for all of you.  Thank you for your support, and I hope you are all doing well as well!

 

With sincere gratitude,

Ryan

Introducing Primal Dawn

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Top of the morning, everybody!

It’s been quite a while, and I’m grateful for your patience.  I’m excited to announce today my new book, Primal Dawn.  It should be up for pre-order on Amazon within three weeks, with the actual release date soon after.

I’ll be writing in the near future more about the story itself (it’s about a clash of civilizations in a brand-new, sci-fi universe), but today I wanted to talk about how the book came to be.

After writing in the Nightblade universe for several years straight, I decided I wanted to take a little bit of a break from it.  I love the Nightblade world, and I never want it to become a chore for me to write in it.  I had an idea for a series of shorter stories that had been bouncing around in my head for a while, and I decided to take some time to actually write one out.

Cheers,

Ryan