Prints available
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Author: Ruth
Cats. Oh why.
I hope to have a new chapter ½ up soon, but right now I have a cat, Mr. Kai, in emergency surgery and overnight observation, and it looks to be touch and go with him for the next 24 hours. I’ve had to make a lot of unfamiliar, expensive and scary decisions today. All that has thrown my schedule off severely. I am having the worst year for cats. For those who have been asking, Nuncie is still missing. As for Mr. Kai, an infection gave way to complications and a blockage that nearly led to kidney failure, and still might. The poor little guy is only three years old, so we did not see this coming. His sister Harana is fine and claws up my legs until I play fetch with her. And that’s the cat health update, sorry. Story update soon, I swear. Also that paperback people have been waiting for.
Chapter Twenty-Three — Captured By Pirates
Jon kept close to Temanava as long as he could. First they were stuffed in a closed wagon, crowded in with eight other sullen girls. The wagon rolled down the hill from the school and round the harbor, and then they were made to walk down a rough path to where several small boats waited.
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Chapter Twenty-Two — Trimela Ablaze
Temanava and the sailors decided on an inlet to hide their new pirate ship in, and anchored there to wait out the few remaining hours of night. They were just done deciding on watches when Tam smacked his head with his palm. “Oh! The Queen! I was supposed to—what time is it now in Shandor?”
Originals Available
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Chapter Twenty-One — The Siege and Its Disasters
Jon watched the others climb up the ropes to the pirate ship. He watched Tam particularly, and so he saw at once when Tam lurched, with an exclamation, and began to slide back down. Jon helped him catch his balance as he landed back in the boat with rope-burned hands.
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Chapter Twenty — What Happened During The Storm
The sky was still turbulent with clouds as the handful of little boats sped silently over dark water. Jon peered ahead, wishing he could see with Tam or Temanava’s extra sight. The Professor was still out there, somewhere, always ahead of them.
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The Kickstarter is funded! Book 2 is going to print!
Thanks to some truly amazing generosity, Book 2, The Germhacht Episode, is officially going to print! There are still two days left on the kickstarter, and extra funds put into that are far from meaningless. Should the miraculous double funding occur, there shall be audiobooks, and even if that goal doesn’t remotely occur, having the funds for shipping rewards to backers, covering proof correction fees and shipping costs on getting the books in is really great.
Thank you so much to everybody who has helped make this possible! I am more grateful than I can express to all of you. Look for updates on incoming rewards in the next two weeks. PDFs and info on available originals should be coming out as soon as I’ve recovered from glee and having just driven home 17 hours from Detroit back to Oklahoma. For now, enjoy this weeks chapter, posted below!
Seven Days
I have just seven days left to raise what I need to print Book Two, The Germhacht Episode, in paperback, and right now we’re still a long way from our goal. If you love last minute rescues and pulse pounding finales, this is looking to be one. If you like the stories and have even $5 and an Amazon account (free to get one!) please consider donating. There are lots of nifty extras. Also, I posted the Blooper Reel from the kickstarter video shoot under backer updates, so go check that out! Here’s the Kickstater page. The way kickstarter works is, if the funding goal is not met, no payments go through. It’s an all or nothing proposal, and all the money, if raised will be used to cover the kickstarter and amazon fees (approx. 10% of the funding total) and the cost of the print run (the other 90%).
To make things more fun, I’m also posting extras and taking questions about characters, stories and process over on my tumblr page for the whole week.
I want to keep the stories coming, and keep them free. Now is a great time to help me make that possible, and also the only way yet to get your hands on a paperback of The Germhacht Episode.
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Chapter Nineteen — Princes, Kings, and Fortifications
“We’re not leaving,” Djaren told Kara, turning to face her. She opened her mouth to argue, but then closed it again. “Not yet. Every panicked thief will be stealing boats and filling them with whatever they can loot. They’ll be prey to any group of plunderers who sees them fleeing. It’s too visible. And where would we go? We don’t want to get stranded in open ocean or shot by poachers before Mother and Father can find us.”
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