You can get autographed copies of all three released books in Selene Reborn (Artemis Rising, Celestial Accord, Forging the Chain Breakers) or Mirim’s First Christmas morning and early afternoon on Saturday and Sunday at Germanfest in Muenster, Texas.
I finished the Antarctic Honeymoon rewrite. I’m much happier with this version. That will teach me to lean to heavily on AI to do my writing. It probably took me almost twice as long as if I’d just done the writing up front and gotten AI and beta readers to polish it afterward…
Phoenix will need to carry more trade goods than just leukos crystals, so I did a little work on that. Came up with a whole list of other things, but developed most of the detail around the luxury goods Phoenix will carry—after all, those are the ones the High Martian nobles will want, and the rules about excess consumption don’t apply to them near as much. https://greshamverse.fandom.com/wiki/Phoenix_Spec_Cargo
I needed to know what the Martian Canals were like in more detail. They are between 20-60 miles wide, 50,000-70,000 miles in total length, and comprise 1-4.5 million square miles. This was after I did some checking on the AI – the AI wanted the canals to be almost twice that wide… https://greshamverse.fandom.com/wiki/Martian_Canals
I also decided to put more detail into the Political Situation on Mars since Graves arrived in Intrepid in 1870. https://greshamverse.fandom.com/wiki/Political_Situation_on_Mars_(1891)
I did some more work detailing significant points in Beulah’s development over the course of Phoenix. Since I did that work, I needed to do similar work on Beulah’s foil, Scarlet, as well. I think this is a lot clearer and hits better now.
I did some more work on how Seven Canals looks and such. Details are here: https://greshamverse.fandom.com/wiki/Seven_Canals
Isaac saw a great visual of a lightning cannon. I’m pretty sure this will be part of the inspiration for how it finally looks.
Here is another minor character – Duchess of Trade, Her Grace Sunlight Playing Upon Still Waters. Duchess Waters for short. She may never show up on the page of a book, but that is what Secret Knowledge is all about… https://greshamverse.fandom.com/wiki/Duchess_Sunlight_Playing_Upon_Still_Waters
I also needed a way for the higher nobility of Seven Canals to get around. After all, you wouldn’t expect a Viscountess to walk… https://greshamverse.fandom.com/wiki/Lift_Palanquins
Viscountess Peacock needs a palace and I’m trying to make this as visually powerful as possible. There’s a location lore entry for the palace https://greshamverse.fandom.com/wiki/Palace_of_the_Flow_That_Refuses_the_Desert
Work has started on Martian Phoenix. Chapters this week:
Seven Canals
A Proper Dinner
Word Count is 7,123 in two chapters of an estimated 80,000-95,000 in 24+Epilogue Chapters.
Advertising: I ran a price countdown campaign the last couple of weeks. Between April 9-22, I sold 4 books for $11.64 in revenue. Since I spent $107.80 on advertising, I’m still upside-down there. Still, every book sold is the chance of getting another review, the more reviews the better the chance of making sales, the more sales the closer I get to break-even…
Artemis Rising is #182 in Steampunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store), #630 in Alternate History, and #1,073 in Alternate History Science Fiction (Books). If you don’t have yours yet, you can get the paper version here or the kindle version here. There is also an audiobook version here. Six reviews for Artemis Rising. More will help others find the series as well – if you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here.
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Mirim’s First Christmas is #6,978 in Colonization Science Fiction, #10,394 in Alternate History Science Fiction (Books), and #13,016 in Science Fiction Short Stories. You can find the paper version here or the kindle version here. One review so far. (Thank you Michele!) If you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so here.