Tuesday, August 18, 2009

08/08/08 and Thanks...

(Reposted from 08/08/08)

As we're posting the beginning of book two, I want to take a minute to say thanks everyone who's commented on the blog or sent us an email. I have to admit that there are days when JLY and I start to feel burned out, and hearing that there are people out there who like our story gives us the motivation to push ourselves to work harder, make the scenes better, and keep writing instead of taking a break to play Soul Calibur IV. ^_^*

You might have noticed that SFA doesn't have any ads, anywhere. And, while we certainly wouldn't mind someday making ridiculous amounts of money off of our writing, for now, we're just writing for the love of telling the story. When we hear from readers, it makes the hard work worth it, and inspires us to keep at it. So, thanks to everyone for the emails and the blog comments. We appreciate it more than you know.

To answer Lana's question (in a comment on the previous post), JLY, KM Ricker, and I have thought about self-publishing the novel, and we're hoping to pick a publishing service and get a physical copy of the book out there in circulation. We spent part of the last month going through and editing the entire novel-- adding some scenes, polishing some of the rough places, and (hopefully) catching all of the typos. If we do end up publishing it, I hope everyone picks up a copy!

But, in the meantime, if anyone out there enjoying the story would like a way to support us, I'd like to put in a shameless plug for you to tell a friend, or a couple of friends, or everyone you know, about SFA. ^_^

In other news, it's 8/8/08, and that means that we've started posting the second book, which actually has a title, and a good one, at that--The Stolen Sword. It took JLY and I longer than I'd like to admit to come up with that title... Someday we'll post up the outtakes, but probably when they're no longer massive spoilers for the plot...

We're starting off this book with a look at a few of the adventurers' summers, and writing these prologues has been a lot of fun. I hope it's as much fun to read as it was to write. While the big scenes that JLY and I write have more energy and more excitement, there's something nice about stepping back, focusing on just one character, and meandering through his or her life, picking up details at random to examine.

Also, in scenes with more than one character, we usually don't get to spend much time inside any one character's thoughts, seeing how they see the world. It's nice to have the freedom to ditch the neutral perspective once in a while and jump into a character's perspective.

So, this week, it's Fell. Next week you can catch a glimpse of Averi's summer. Hope you enjoy it!

<3

KL

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