It's an in-between installment today but sadly, I've got an announcement to make that I wish I didn't have to.
I've learned from the publisher of Daemon Soul that they are closing their doors, and this Daemon Soul is no longer available for sale. It'd only been out there in the wild for six months but I'd be lying if I said it sold well. As easy as it would be for me to pin the blame on market forces, the burden falls on me for not doing enough to promote it, and then there was the quality of writing...Yeah, the publisher did the best they could.
On the plus side, they transferred me all the rights back and formatted documents so I can try again, but the question is, would anyone even want to? Ironic as I did decide on attempting self publishing with this series before but editing costs made it a little out of reach for me.
So, yeah Daemon Soul now joins the Brennan and Riz books in limbo until I can finally sort myself out enough to sort them out. A tall order indeed.
I'll still write number 2 though as I need something to work on but I've also been looking at the two spin offs I've been tinkering with (Avalon Tales and Phantom Dawn, which is obliviously being serialised here) and seeing if a shift to first person will help them as they lack the kind of villain focused scenes I used in Daemon Soul itself.
Basically, watch this space.
Let's move onto something happier shall we?
The Comic Tales of Brennan and Riz
...Well, Brennan brought this on himself this time. Not often you can say that! Trying a different approach with this one (not the first time I've done physical comedy in the strip but Brennan’s reaction is more rooted in the traditional comic strips ala peanuts or Garfield) and it worked quite well. The script underwent some minor revisions and isn't the best it could have been, but more importantly, I don't hate the artwork. I'll take that as a win.
That's all for this week, and I wish I had more good news but it is what it is.
I'll be back next time with more Phantom Dawn, but till then...
Keep on writing.
Peter James Martin
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