Another decade, another book

[Elok]

Pyrebound, which I spent two years serializing, is now revised and available in Kindle. Actual print books are a pain in the arse to format and the profit margin's worse, but I'll see if I can get around to it by and by; Kindle publishing seems to have some exciting new tools to make it less excruciating. Just in case anybody wants to know.

[pchang]

Pitch it to streaming services. They are always looking for source material.

[EPW]

How many times do Jesus or Jehovah make an appearance?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

They do not at all - it's sorta Sumerian-as-written-by-Andre Norton.

[EPW]

Salamander Jesus is still Jesus. Christian themes? Word count?

[Elok]

It's a bit over 250K words, bigger than any individual LOTR book but smaller than the whole trilogy. It is not remotely like Narnia, if that's what you mean by "Christian themes." Characters drink, swear, fornicate (offscreen), brawl, and murder. Nobody inserts a stereotypical Christian moral in there. It was written by a Christian who's serious about his religion, but who doesn't like didacticism in fiction.

[EPW]

Sounds good

[-Jrabbit]

Congrats, Elok!

[Elok]

Thanks! It's been a while coming.

[Jon Miller]

I liked your previous, so I will try this one.

Congrats!

JM

[Jon Miller]

They do not at all - it's sorta Sumerian-as-written-by-Andre Norton.

I liked Andre Norton. I wouldn't compare Curse of Life to Andre Norton at all. Interesting.

JM

[Elok]

I just googled "Andre Norton." She apparently inspired Bujold and various other well-regarded names, so I guess it's a good thing.

This is not at all like TCOL, in world, format (it's not epistolary), plot, or tone. The main common element is that both feature deep worldbuilding, which is more or less a constant with my work. Thanks for giving it a chance.

[Jon Miller]

She was the first woman SF Grandmaster, and wrote a lot of juveniles in the early eras. I think she wrote for 70+ years.

She is maybe best known for Witch World.

She was never my favorite author, but I liked her. The tone being so different, according to both you and Buster's Uncle, is what I was commenting on.

JM

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I was thinking of the Witch World stuff, of course - all the interdimensional gate/invasion shenanigans.

[EPW]

I read the first bit and it's actually pretty good

[Elok]

Awesome! Thanks for giving it a chance.

[PLATO]

Is it available through Kindle unlimited?

[Elok]

No, sadly; KU requires exclusivity, which I couldn't give it; PB first ran as a serial, and I'm promoting it with another serial run on a second, larger site. If you want to try before you buy just click my sig; the version on wordpress is only a little less polished than the final version. Alternately, I've discovered that formatting technology has improved tremendously in the past few years, so a print edition should be available before the end of the month. That'll have to cost at least fourteen bucks, though, so I only mention it for completeness' sake.

[Elok]

Bumping just to keep self-promotions in view on the first page is normally obnoxious; however, in this case it might be a refreshing change of pace from all the Serbish Serbyness.