Making time for something that only benefits me is a great way to teach myself that I matter and that everything holds together even if I’m not there, but that I’m still welcomed back when I show up again. All necessary reminders. It’s like we reclaim that kid part of ourselves every time we do it. What’s your latest hobbies? More adventures to follow.
Author Notes - Michael Anderle
February 27, 2020
THANK YOU for reading our story! We have a few of these planned, but we don’t know if we should continue writing and publishing without your input. Options include leaving a review, reaching out on Facebook to let us know, and smoke signals.
Frankly, smoke signals might get misconstrued as low hanging clouds, so you might want to nix that idea.
If this is the first book by me you have read, know that there are dozens of rabbit holes (series) you can go down after you finish this series!
Goth Drow the character was an effort to merge a slightly darker protagonist (well, as dark as we can get) while making her something we don’t see too often in a story.
Who would think to create a Goth-looking human as a way to hide a Drow lineage?
(If you know of some stories which have already done this, please don’t tell me. Allow me to enjoy my blissful state of ignorance.)
Inside the team working on this series we named the project “the Goth Draw” story. Which, of course, got shortened to Goth Drow.
By the time we needed to come up with a series name, we were all so accustomed to that name we (and by “we,” I mean I) couldn’t think of anything I liked more than Goth Drow. The rest of the team agreed, and there you go.
The story of how Goth Drow became the series name is revealed.
The title naming credit goes to Jake Caleb, the artist for the cover. He will often put in placeholder titles to see how book covers will look with the typography. Then, he gives the cover preview to Martha, who (almost every time) loves his title and runs with it.
I think she is getting a little too happy with just getting Jake to come up with titles, but let’s not mention that to her. The fact they ARE good has nothing to do with anything. At least, not with me giving Martha grief about title laziness. I feel certain she will explain how it is an efficient use of resource talent.
That’s how I would argue the case, anyway. Since I don’t think she will read these Author Notes, (please see comment above about not telling her) I should be good.
Diary Sunday Feb 23rd to Sat Feb 29th. (Mostly the same for all books coming out during this week.)
Well, this is a little early (I’m not quite into the week yet), but I can admit I’m going to be out of the office for a couple of days.
Where are you going, you ask? Why, to the White Label World Expo. I know, it clearly gives you goosebumps up and down your arms just thinking about it, right?
No?
Well, color me surprised. (In case you are super-curious, here is the link: https://www.whitelabelexpo.com)
I’ve now reviewed the list of those exhibiting, and I’m not sure if I’ll last beyond a couple of hours. I’m pretty sure this should be renamed the CBD Conference for those not yet involved.
I did notice there is a class on leveraging Amazon’s algorithm for growth. That looks interesting.
On to other topics!
We have plenty of cool books coming out next week, including Scions of Magic Book 05, Hunter Cadet Book 03 (this series has been extended to 06!) We have a brand-new series WAR MAGE Book 01 (3 in 1) on Wednesday. We finish the week with Goth Drow (3 in 1) on Friday and Steel Dragon Book 03 (3 in 1) on Saturday.
All in, that is about eleven (11) books’ worth of reading. So, I hope you don’t treasure your sleep!
#Sleep Is Overrated.
#Read all Night, Sleep all day.
#Don’t Be A Quitter – Finish the book!
#Your boss will NOT understand, I guarantee it.
I will be editing OpusX Book 06 this week, so if you are in Vegas, you might find me at the Aria Five-50 bar typing into the night, trying to pound their iced tea (I swear that stuff has 3x the caffeine of any other tea) and finish just one more chapter or three of editing.
Today, I visited the Aria barber (in the Spa) for the first time. The barber (a Russian lady, Luba(?)) talked me into a true barber shave.
Dammit, that hurt!
I only ever do a dry electric shave, and my beard was NOT pleased with the experience. It wasn’t too bad (yes, it was.), until the last towel.
Those who have done this are probably chuckling.
You see, the first towel in a barber shave is hot, or at least nice and warm to open the pores. She flicked the first towel back and forth a few times to cool it, then settled it on my chin area (this was going well), then wrapped it all the way around my face leaving an opening for my nose.
HOLY D@#%R that was a bit warm!
But really nice after the shock. The towel was infused with something that smelled spa-ish and very outdoorsy.
The actual shave was a bit harsh (ripping hairs out at the roots it felt like) at times, but I expected that to happen.
It was the last towel, the one to close the pores, that made me bounce out of the chair.
It wasn’t just “a little cold.” No, it felt like she laid ice water in a nice circle on top of my face. As if I were in the sea off of Iceland, with only my nose sticking out above the frigid water.
In short, it sucked.
I’ll do it again, but probably once a quarter. There is very little that can provide such a close shave as a razor blade. Besides,
