Magic of Eyri 2.0
Great news! I talked to Michael Church, my cover artist, and he agreed to do drawings for each of the chapters of the second edition of The Magic of Eyri that I'm planning. This means 50 drawings kids, which I know is quite the task. But I told him just black and white and no shading, so that'll make things a little bit easier for him.
I'm also decided that I am going to serialize the book with weekly chapters on magicofeyri.com, and use Michael's art for that--which was the main reason I asked him to do it. People like his art and it'll add an extra li'l somthin' to the whole affair. Yep, a free chapter a week, for 50 weeks. Although, I may considering doing two a week (maybe two chapters once a week). We'll see.
This isn't something I'm going to start tomorrow, that's for sure. I want to plan this all out and have an actual start date so I can advertise it, and I want to have the second edition ready for sale when I start serializing it (so if people don't want to wait, they can just buy the whole thing, which would be nice).
My reasons for doing this are:
- the book has been out for over a year.
- people do like it (and the idea of it based on the reactions I got last weekend at Motor City Comic Con).
- giving it away for free will help get me more attention, and create more of an Internet Buzz.
- the book keeps selling, which means I'm doing something right.
- it is a good excuse to revise the book.
- getting a good fan base for the first book will help me with the second book.
- I don't have any other convention appearances planned until the fall.
Now, which I say revise, I don't mean I'm going to change the story. I'm gonna clean up the grammar a bit and cut out some of the wordiness. I may reword a few things here and there, perhaps even rewrite some things, but the overall story isn't going to change. Y'know what that means for those of you who already have a copy? You'll have a
collector's item ;)
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