{"id":1983,"date":"2018-09-09T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T17:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2018-09-30T15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T22:41:24","slug":"dawn-of-chaos-edit-and-re-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/?p=1983","title":{"rendered":"Dawn of Chaos: Edit and Re-Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first novel<\/span>, Dawn of Chaos<\/a>,<\/span><\/em> suffers (especially in the earlier chapters) from the fact that much of it was written while I was still honing my writing skills. It also has an unusually long introduction and denouement relative to the core of the novel\u2019s story. Modern readers, however (and I think with some justification) expect a book to quickly draw them into the story, and have less patience with the level of exposition and \u201cstage setting\u201d that I was used to from many of the classics of the past. In the e-publishing world of readers who use the \u201clook inside\u201d function to decide if they like something enough to buy it, authors really need to put their best, tightest, and most gripping work forward at the outset<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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With that in mind, I\u2019ve decided to restructure Dawn of Chaos<\/span> and to give it a ruthless<\/span> edit. My current plan is to separate the introduction and denouement into two novella-length works that \u201csandwich\u201d the main story. The first was easy to do by editing and moving the initial three chapters of the novel into Prologue to Chaos<\/span><\/em><\/a>. The revised Prologue<\/span> still opens with the conflict and action of the saga\u2019s seminal confrontation, but now also includes a much<\/span> tighter introduction to the novel. Along with an additional new scene, I think it will be a more effective lead-in to the series, especially since I will also<\/span> be making it available as a free download.<\/p>\n

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The novel itself (after a short synopsis of Prologue<\/span>) will lead right into the action with the start of the invasion, ending shortly after the climax in the chapter\u00a0The Last Stand<\/span><\/em>. I\u2019m currently planning to release it as a new book under a new name and with a new cover, titled Hellgate<\/span><\/em><\/a>. The last several chapters (along with an added scene or two to help further introduce the next novel, Wrath of the Peregrine King<\/em>)<\/span> will then be released as another novella, titled\u00a0Aftermath<\/span><\/em><\/a>. After that, all three books will be collected into a single compilation volume and re-published (as both e-book and paperback) under the original title, Dawn of Chaos<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Going Wide<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n

After careful consideration, I\u2019ve also decided to end my participation in Amazon\u2019s KDP Select<\/span><\/a> program. What that means is that although my books will no longer be available in Kindle Unlimited<\/span>, I will also<\/span> no longer be required to publish them exclusively<\/span> on Amazon. That will let me release them on other online bookstores such as iBooks<\/a> and Kobo<\/a>, and even sell them from my own website. (In the indie publishing world, we call this \u201cgoing wide.\u201d) Setting all of that up will take a bit of time, but I\u2019m very excited at the prospect of making Sanctum of the Archmage<\/span> available in all of those new venues in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first novel, Dawn of Chaos, suffers (especially in the earlier chapters) from the fact that much of it was written while I was still honing my writing skills. It also has an unusually long introduction and denouement relative to the core of the novel\u2019s story. Modern readers, however (and I think with some justification) … Continue reading Dawn of Chaos: Edit and Re-Release<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dawn-of-chaos","category-prologue-to-chaos","category-sanctum-the-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andarian.net\/TheSanctum\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}