First, the audiobook of the Beesong Chronicles Omnibus is now live! Link to the Audible Page Is Here. Just to be clear, this is purely a collection of the previous books with a new foreword and author’s note, there’s no new content.
Speaking of which, the editing pass for Crisis of Faith is becoming far more involved than I expected. I haven’t changed anything in the plot, I’ve just been editing for readability and to revise sentence structure, but it’s already cut… a lot of words. It makes me wonder how I fit as much content into the story as I did originally. Anyway, I’m about 2/3 of the way through it, and I’ll be sending it off to Sarah this week. It’s taking longer than I hoped, but so be it.
I’m still planning on Embers of War after that. I’ll admit, I’m resisting the urge to go directly into a full editing pass to get the first book ready for publication before writing book 3. Could I? Yeah, of course. But I’ve already got two of the three books complete in draft form, and if I finish book 3 first, I may have the chance to do minor revisions to the first two to make the story better. If I’m already this close… why not, right? Anyway, that’s where things stand at the moment.
Have a wonderful week!
Ancient Dreams 
I’m curious about whats the gist of Embers of War? BTW I remember reading Crisis of Faith and found it to be fine to read.
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Oh, I’m not saying Crisis of Faith is/was bad. It’s just that it doesn’t meet my current standards, and if I’m paying thousands to get it re-recorded anyway, I may as well adjust it to make me happier. I’m trying very hard not to change the intent of any of the sections, just tweak wordings or add context.
As for Embers of War (an off-the-cuff description): Two thousand years ago, Ellinaya Shade died. She fell facing the Demon King, slaying him and ending the War of Black Blood, but his death curse stole her soul, trapping it deep in the lower planes where no one could save her from eternal torment. She became a figure of myth and legend, one who was slowly overshadowed as time rolled onward. Most of her allies perished from the passing of years, and even the power of one of the deities she venerated began to wane. Until at last, a friend found her. Found and freed Elli, at the price of service which kept her from greeting the newly-resurrected heroine.
Elli has awoken to a changed world. Some knowledge she considered common has been lost. Other things have advanced immensely. She is weakened from millennia of torment, but she retains the talent which allowed her to face the Demon King of her era. She retains the skill built over decades of war. But truthfully? She’d love nothing more than to retire, to become an artisan like she always dreamed of being. To travel and sample the delectable foods which surpass almost everything she had before her death.
It’s a shame some groups have grown twisted over the millennia since her death, and that they foolishly target Elli. Unfortunately for them, she remains the person who refused to stand idle when the world was threatened by demonic invasion. And even their god trembles at her growing wrath.
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That sounds exciting, kinda what happened to Sistina and Joy but waking to bee an Evelyn like character?
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Mm, a tiny bit, I suppose? Like Sistina, her speech is a bit stilted at first, but I was focused on making sure it didn’t stick around. The first book is mostly slice of life, with a tiny bit of adventure in between. Elli would be perfectly happy to just… settle down and be a crafter. But put in a group of theocratic zealots who misinterpret their deity’s increasingly-frantic warnings, a guild who isn’t thrilled when someone accidentally challenges their monopoly (using lost knowledge, no less!), and the interest of a few beings of power, and things get… messy.
I mostly feel bad for the most recent Hero. Once he learns she’s back, he wants to have a spar, since he’s always wondered who was stronger. That’ll be in book 3…
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So, when you finish Book 3, will you publish only the first one first or the whole trilogy?
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My plan would be to publish them at a reasonably fast pace, probably one a month or every two months, to give me time to edit, get cover art, and potentially fix errors.
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So, when you finish Book 3, will you publish one by one or the whole trilogy?
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