Hi everyone!
My name is Mitch and I’m a small-time indie author who has today published the third and final book in my first-ever trilogy! I’m incredibly excited about it all, despite all the stresses along the way, and wanted to share the moment with you.
The Rising Saga is the story of three people who are brought together under the shadow of a war-mongering king who is driving his nation to the brink of disaster. Hopeful that together they can bring about an end to his reign and the iron fist he rules with. It’s a story of friendship, loyalty, war, and betrayal.
Books 1 & 2 are currently free to celebrate book 3’s launch today.
They’re available in most countries:
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Hello, everyone!
I’m currently celebrating the launch of my latest book, The Silence of Unworthy Gods, the most recent book in the Arcane Ascension series. As a part of that celebration, I’ve put up the first three books for free on Kindle for five days. This is active now on the US Kindle store - I’m not sure about other regions.
The first three books can be found here:
If you’re not already familiar with the series, let me introduce you!
Arcane Ascension is the story of Corin Cadence, a young man who enters the Serpent Spire — a colossal tower filled with monsters, traps, and treasures — to find clues to the fate of his brother, Tristan, who disappeared into the tower five years earlier.
The series …
Technically, a morally grey is supposed to be a character where I have a hard time deciding whether he/she is a good person or not. But people now use it to describe characters who are very obviously bad people. I don’t about you, but I don’t have a hard time deciding whether Ferro Maljin is a good person or not.
I’ve seen a lot of people who think Harry Potter would’ve been better if Hermione was the primary POV character (which I think is a terrible idea tbh, but please let me know if you disagree, I’d like to see some thoughts) but are there any books where you think a POV swap would’ve improved it? I’ve been on record saying I think Dresden Files would’ve been better (or in my case, worth reading) if it had a swapped perspective, but another more recent book is The Blacktongue Thief by Christoper Buehlman.
Kinch was an okay-to-meh protagonist imo, but Galva was WAY more interesting to me, and I could never shake the feeling that I wished it had been her story instead. I still enjoyed to book but it would’ve taken it from a low four to a 5 star. I think she’s getting a prequel book though, which I’m very excited about.
“I always think we can all sleep safer in my bed knowing that these brave men are watching over us,” said Lady Ramkin, walking sedately along the rank, like a treasure galleon running ahead of a mild breeze.
“And who is this?”
It is difficult for an orangutan to stand to attention. Its body can master the general idea, but its skin can’t. The Librarian was doing his best, however, standing in a sort of respectful heap at the end of the line and maintaining the kind of complex salute you can only achieve with a four foot arm.
“’E’s plain clothes, ma’am,” said Nobby smartly. “Special Ape Services.”
“Very enterprising. Very enterprising indeed,” said Lady Ramkin. “How long have you been an ape, my man?”
“Oook.”
“Well done.”
She turned to Vimes, who was definitely looking incredulous.
“A credit to you,” she said. “A fine body of men—”
“Oook.”
“—anthropoids,” corrected Lady Ramkin, with barely a break in the flow.
For a moment the rank felt as though they had just returned …
This book was on my brother’s shelf for years now. Since then, I keep hearing about it and seeing it on special tables in bookstores. When I finally decided to read it, I don’t know what to expect. I was hoping to learn more about money, but, almost halfway through I realized maybe it’s not the book for me, maybe it’s not what I’m looking for, or maybe I just really don’t know what I’m looking for in this quest for financial literacy. This book gave me a bit of motivation and a good enough mind shift, but I’m not sure if it’ll actually help me achieve anything?
Also, I’m not very comfortable with the tone of the book. Some people are just not privileged enough to take risks and throw everything away to be rich, and it’s not necessarily their fault that they are stuck being poor.
Maybe I’ve spoken too soon, and maybe I’ll give this book another shot someday and finish it, but for now, it’s going back on the shelf.
My wife and I are both avid readers, but we have vastly different tastes. However, I’m curious about what she’s into (cuz I kinda have a crush on her) so I sometimes ask her for recommendations or read favorite books of hers.
It’s occurred to me that I could ask her to read a favorite of mine, and I like that idea. I’d love to hear her point of view on what I’m into, even if she’s not a fan.
Has anyone else had experience with this? Does this idea sound like too much of an imposition, asking someone to read a book outside of their comfort zone? Any interesting stories along these lines?
One of the best books I’ve read, ever. I’m still reeling from all the stuff she went through. What an incredibly talented writer she is, too. The way she wove the narrative together, always introducing the good things about her family members first to humanize them and make you understand why she loves them even still before you find out the dark side. Wow. By the end I was just stunned. I read it nonstop for five days and wish there was more. I hope she writes again.
It honestly flew beyond my expectations. I’m wary of reading celebrity memoirs. The handful of memoirs written by celebrities in the past that I have read were lauded in their reviews and recommended by people I trust, yet I’m always left feeling disappointed. At best, they have felt like a money grab. The last one I had picked up was so narcissistic and preachy that I told myself I wasn’t going to bother with it again. That’s it, I’d learned my lesson. Apparently I didn’t though, and I’m glad I didn’t.
This memoir written by Jennette about her abusive childhood experiences and her journey to acceptance and healing was poignant yet somehow still retained just enough of Jennette’s sense of humor to avoid being outright depressing. It wasn’t preachy. It wasn’t whiny. It wasn’t attention-seeking. It was candid and refreshing.
I could go on for awhile about the interesting things I’ve learned about the entertainment industry as a whole or how shocking some of the abuse she endured from …
It looks like Ann Leckie’s putting out a new novel, in the same setting as the Ancillary books and Provenance.
I really enjoyed the aspects of books like Dune that make future generations so advanced in ways they appear as “witches” or other divine and mystical beings. Any recommendations along these lines?
Every so often I’ll see a wisecrack to the effect of the second book in the Southern Reach trilogy being “bureacracy horror”. I’m wondering if there are any other at-least-decent SF or SF/horror stories that lean into that idea. The sense of working for an organization that might actually be a sort of cloak or facade for some kind of eldritch threat.
The only other thing that springs to mind is There Is No Antimemetics Division (which I thoroughly enjoyed and was also nigh-unbearably creeped out by).
By which I was nigh-unbearably creeped out.
Anyway, other stories like that?
Out by which I was nigh-unbearably creeped.
I’m thinking of the movie Inception, but it could also be books (or movies etc) where people enter a dreams or a simulated world where reality and the other world is confused. The mechanism of traveling to the other “world” could be via dreams, or a technology, or even just through mental illness or via drugs. It could be magical-realism, but I’m looking for books where there is a clear (but possibly blurred) dividing line between reality and the other world, and ideally, where a mechanism or phenomena exists that enables the mixing of worlds. I am more into SF, but I won’t discount fantasy either. But I am not really into “magical” explanations.
Hi, I’ve really enjoyed the culture series and I was wondering if I could get some recommendations for other authors who’s novels are up there with these books.
Values dissonance and all that jazz. Characters are by products of their world and all that entails and now ours.
And please give me an example of such.