{"id":6012,"date":"2010-07-08T18:08:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2010\/07\/08\/big-news-2-merlin-s-blade-is-printed\/"},"modified":"2017-01-16T12:32:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T18:32:04","slug":"big-news-2-merlin-s-blade-is-printed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2010\/07\/08\/big-news-2-merlin-s-blade-is-printed\/","title":{"rendered":"Big News #2 &mdash; Merlin&#8217;s Blade Is Printed &#8230; !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yes indeed&#8230; the first ever copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/epictales.org\/HammerAndStone.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merlin&#8217;s Blade<\/a> is rolling off the press right now<\/strong> , and will be sent to me in a week or two.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If this proof copy turns out as expected<\/strong> , then I will be ordering more copies to give to ten published authors I&#8217;ve met, as well as one friend, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tegid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tegid<\/a> <\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>(Remember &#8230; I am NOT self-publishing Merlin&#8217;s Blade.<\/strong> These copies are purely for securing endorsements to increase my chances with a publisher such as P&amp;R &#8230; remember my previous Big News #1?)<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the complete list of authors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbgraham.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LB Graham<\/a> <\/strong> <\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bondbooks.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Douglas Bond<\/a> <\/strong> <\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/flamingpenpress.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Appleton<\/a> <\/strong> <\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/enterthedoorwithin.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wayne Thomas Batson<\/a> <\/strong> <\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christopherhopper.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Hopper <\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdsmith.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S.D. Smith<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wingfeathersaga.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Peterson<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thefiddlersgun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Peterson<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Mystery Author #1 <\/li>\n<li>Mystery Author #2 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>LB <\/strong> lives here in St. Louis, and we attend the same church &#8230; LB &#8230; we need to get together soon!<\/p>\n<p>Even though I&#8217;ll have to mail a copy to both <strong>Douglas Bond <\/strong>and <strong>Scott Appleton<\/strong>, I was able to spend time with each of them when they visited St. Louis &#8230; Scott in January, and Doug in June.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll see <strong>Wayne <\/strong> and <strong>Christopher <\/strong>at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Curse-Spider-King-Berinfell-Prophecies\/dp\/1400315050\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1278552634&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Curse of the Spider King <\/a> <\/strong> party this coming October, so that&#8217;s going to be great fun!<\/p>\n<p><strong>S.D. Smith<\/strong> is being sent a copy for himself and one to share between <strong>Andrew Peterson<\/strong> and his fellow brother-author, <strong>Pete Peterson<\/strong>, whom he&#8217;ll meet at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hutchmoot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hutchmoot 2010<\/a><\/strong>, which I&#8217;ll sadly miss&#8230; \ud83d\ude41 <\/p>\n<p><strong>As part of getting Merlin&#8217;s Blade ready to print<\/strong> &#8230; I have finished the cover art for the novel using <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blender 2.5 Beta 2<\/a> <\/strong> and a lot of help from my son, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slygames.net\/blog\/leightonblog.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leighton<\/a><\/strong>!  So &#8230; here it is &#8230; if you want to see it up close, click the image!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/Robert\/Merlins_Blade_Cover.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cover for Merlin's Blade\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/Robert\/Merlins_Blade_Cover.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"Cover for Merlin's Blade\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep in mind that this cover art is for my personal printing only<\/strong> &#8230; a publisher would probably want to do it differently&#8230; Either way, I have striven for as professional of a look as I can get given time constraints.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As well &#8230; here is a &#8220;desktop background wallpaper&#8221; version<\/strong> if you are interested in that.  I removed the extraneous text from the image to make it more artsy and also reveal the graphic.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/Robert\/Merlins_Blade_Wallpaper.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Merlin's Blade Wallpaper\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/Robert\/Merlins_Blade_Wallpaper.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"Merlin's Blade Wallpaper\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh &#8230; you&#8217;re wondering who Mystery Author #1 and #2 are?<\/strong> For that you&#8217;ll have to wait for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2010\/07\/09\/big-news-3-laity-lodge-writing-retreat\">Big News #3 <\/a><\/strong>&#8230; coming up soon!<\/p>\n<p>Views: 90<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nYes indeed&#8230; the first ever copy of Merlin&#8217;s Blade is rolling off the press right now , and will be&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2010\/07\/08\/big-news-2-merlin-s-blade-is-printed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Big News #2 &mdash; Merlin&#8217;s Blade Is Printed &#8230; !&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,14,73,9,63,25,48,37,29,36,66,72,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-merlin-spiral","category-1-merlins-blade","category-a-s-peterson-pete","category-announcements","category-christopher-hopper","category-douglas-bond","category-l-b-graham","category-marketing-ideas","category-my-book-excerpts","category-progress-reports","category-s-d-smith","category-scott-appleton","category-wayne-thomas-batson","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Merlins_Blade_Cover_Front17.jpg?fit=507%2C804","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67v0M-1yY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6725,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions\/6725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}