A few more book sales or donations will put us at getting an extra episode released next week.
The healer/cook's rhyme about shinefish part uses is added to the song/poem page. Also I have released the third part of Chapter 29 (Dreams and Divination) a few days early. The upcoming grocery shopping for the month and polishing up my midterm essay might otherwise have made me forget.
A few more book sales or donations will put us at getting an extra episode released next week.
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Yesterday it went up on Dreamwidth and Livejournal, today it goes up here on the Weebly site. While Kirsty was dreaming in the first installment of the chapter Morvan also was having a rough night of it. We now join Morvan, Imp, and one of the Cailleach's servants (a male nightmare/nightstallion). What does Imp find out on behalf of his mistress? When will he be able to relay that, or is this a bad time to burden Kirsty with more things to worry about?
Have a read! I've already gotten an interesting question asked to me privately about one detail... I'll post the question and answer in a few days. Feel free to ask more. "Song of the Water Keepers" from the prequel story "Book of Seals: Pearls of Sea and Stone" has been added to the Songs and Poetry page.
That story will be going on Smashwords toward the end of December. The full version of the first book of "Selkies' Skins" is still projected to go out in ebook and print in January. Book One is still being serialized here, so those that decide to buy the book will very likely get to finish reading before the full story is posted here. Work on Book Two and the sea-based part of the water trials and skinquest will be starting soon, as will work on Book Three in the "Dragon Shaman" series. Work on the stories will all have to be done in between university assignments though. If you want weekly releases I have to start seeing donations, sales, or reviews of other stories coming on. This story is scheduled to update here every two weeks with the possibility of an extra update in between those. The first part of Chapter 28 (Rock that Drowns) has been released. What happens with our complicated selkie family this time? A rock that drowns?
Part two of "Pyramids and Problems" (Chapter 27) from Selkies' Skins is now up. I have put it up a few days early as I expect the next several days to be very busy with packing things to have them moved to make way for new flooring.
Since it will be so busy I will not be adding to the manuscript during this time. Don't worry, I still have plenty of backlog posts. I just get to chomp at the bit wanting to get back to getting the first book finished. The prequel novella doesn't count. It needs a round of editing. The divisions between the book IN that book and the story being told around it are nice and clear, but I have spots that need checking before that's ready to go. What I really want to finish is this story I'm currently sharing. Part one of Chapter 27 is now available. We return to Etain's adventures.
The page for the prequel/side along story "Pearls of Sea and Stone: Book of Seals" for "Selkies' Skins" has been updated. A bit has been added into the projected table of contents, and I have put up notes on which sections are written and which are currently in progress.
Also, Smashwords has introduced series linking, and even gives the ability for the same book to be in multiple series. This will enable me to put the official books in order, provide a series for the short stories for those that would like to read them in timeline order, and also have all the stories (both books and shorts) in a timeline order. I am still waiting on the official cover art for the print version of Selkies' Skins. The artist is going through a bit of a rough patch right now, but I am hoping she will still have it completed by the time I am ready to have the first proof run. Selkies' Skins is being posted a little early, and is a double post on one page. We did not get enough donations or sales from other books to unlock an extra bit of the story, but I did it anyway. I have my reasons. *smiles*
So the rest of chapter 26 is now available. There is also another bit of art added to the bottom of the art page. The print and ebook versions will both have a glossary for all of the non English words, for those that like to know the meaning of new words. Some of the names of characters were chosen with specific meanings in mind, and so those are included in the glossary as well.
This glossary is still a work in progress as the manuscript continues to unfold itself, thus as a new word is incorporated the glossary file and glossary page will also be updated. I have added character pages for three of the deities.
Please note that these are not fully filled out, as some background I intend to reveal both within the first book and through the separate "Book of Seals." |
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Teresa Garcia is a mother of two, a folklorist, an international relations student, a priestess, an artist, a poet, an author, a game quest writer, game tester, and too many other things to list. She has a tendency to stare off into space thinking about the stories she writes, overwork, and read for friends and family. Archives
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