Welcome to Jon’s Author Diary for the week ending September 1, 2019…yes, September.
I’ve had a productive week. If you’ve been receiving my newsletters for a while, you now that I've been telling myself not to start new projects until I clear the backlog of ongoing projects.
Well, I failed that this week.
I’ve been working on a new prequel for The Ravenglass Chronicles. It’s set about nine months before the events of The Magician, and gives some more insight into Kat’s life and how she first met Hans. I have a first draft complete and will be working on a second draft over the next week or so.
Those of you who on my Patreon page will get a first look at this as I post the unedited chapters as soon as the second draft is ready. The rest of you will have to wait! But, fear not, it’s going to be a freebie to say thank you for supporting my work.
The prequel will be called…
*drumroll*
The Fool.
“Wait! Didn’t you already release The Fool?”
Yes. The story I originally released under the title The Fool is now combined with The Magician. Amazon would not let me have a book 0 (The Fool is card 0 in the tarot) linked to a series. This meant readers missing out on the first episode of the series.
So, The Fool as a title was unpublished and there will be a new version.
I’m not going to make this available on Amazon, only to my newsletter subscribers. So, look out for the new version of The Fool coming at some point in the near future.
Black Death update
I have now compiled the Black Death series into three novels. It is now with my co-author, Lynn, so it's out of my hands for a while. I hope that it will get done in the not-too-distant future.
TOOL has a new album!
I was excited this week to see that one of my favourite bands TOOL released a new album for the first time in 13 years.
And it did not disappoint.
It is a great album. This will probably sound pretentious, but TOOL’s doesn’t write ‘songs’—they are more like musical experiences, hypnotic stories that take you on strange journeys.
The Wasteland series re-write
I continue to post chapters from the new, improved version of Wizard of the Wasteland every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on my Patreon page.
I’m about twenty percent through reworking Knight of the Wasteland—I forgot just how much I loved writing this story. As soon as I’m done posting chapters from Wizard, I’ll go straight onto this.
And, of course, I’m posting these in addition to short stories, podcasts, and exclusive articles.
You can access all of these for as little as $1 per month. Please visit: patreon.com/joncronshawauthor.
Assassin novels
I’m currently on a bit of grimdark fantasy assassin kick. I’ve recently read Andy Peloquin’s Darkblade Assassin and have moved onto Nevernight by Jay Kristoff.
Do you have a favourite assassin novel or series you think I should read?
