My goodness would you look at the time! Far too long without an update, and boy-howdy am I excited for this one.
I'm deep into the current draft where I start to polish things like character interactions, abstract descriptions or ideas/concepts, and generally dial in the atmosphere. And man. Is it crushing. To put a frame around it, I've been binging nothing but brutal death metal, OSDM and deathcore for the entirety of the draft. I've let it drench my mind, the imagery, the themes, the heavy darkness... it's bled through into the writing in such a fantastic way. We're going to the edge and committing seppuku into the septic abyss. I've taken the feedback readers provided off of book 1 and have implemented the necessary changes in book 2. While it can be difficult to take those punches, they're worth more than their weight in gold when it comes to shaping the story. There may be plenty of this current draft to get through, but I can already see how much of an improvement it is over the previous book. To pace along with the building excitement for book 2, we've been doing a bit of screen printing. I'm always over-excited to commission artwork that can give us neat little peeks into the Shine, and the shirt design below is so far my favorite of those we've had so far. We're only making about 100 total shirts across all sizes per design. They'll be priced and shipped at or below cost (or thrown in randomly with signed book orders along with a number of other goodies). That's all the news I got for now. Until next time, here's a teaser quote from book 2. If you're an elite book-one completer, they your sexy ass will know who this is. "After a while my inner monologue just stopped. I sat in the dark of that vault, the only sound the clash of memories in my head, and one by one they went quiet. Such quiet. A sleep deeper than death. In that sleep, a dream: through a little white keyhole I glimpsed a thread spiraling between chaos and form. I thought it belonged to the old worm, but then... so do you. Don't you?" (Email SpacePunk with the answer, get a free shirt when they print!)
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AuthorHailing from Seattle, Magnus Blackwood is a metalhead, amateur strongman, cape/cloak advocate and microbiologist who's been writing sci-fi since 2013. His stories focus on weaving horror and occult elements into futuristic hellscapes with a magical twist. Archives
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