I went skiing for the first time last month! It was so cool and I feel like I picked it up super fast, I even did some of the intermediate slopes!
We begin our monthly journey with the fairly recent and underappreciated George Clanton:
…Kind of a flavoring between Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, and David Bowie for me – how about you?
Potential new project, re-release, new short, and short story collection?!
Maybe you’re as tired of hearing about the 6-7 things I’ve been juggling as I am of writing about them, but on the other end you’re entitled to the best author-to-reader reporting there is.
So this month has been only mildly productive, which I despise in a way that’s difficult to put into words.
Can I really complete all the planned books in time? (If I can get my coffee-fueled bottom in gear)
Will I have to become a ghost to finish the works? (The odds are low but never zero)
Will the federal reserve hold strong enough to prevent the oncoming economic apocalypse? (They won’t)
All these and more questions fill my mind from day to day as I simultaneously success and fail at everything I set out to do, a thrilling Schrodinger’s Kell, if you will.
That said, I actually do have things inching closer and closer over the horizon to the point where fan artists will truly have more material to work with in the coming months, like for realsies.
It’s sort of weird sitting on all this stuff like an old Oceanian god holding my volcano at bay over an island of enthusiastic (for now!) worshippers who haven’t the slightest clue what lava is. Here’s what’s cookin’:
-Xbook 2 is almost done with its second big pass, and will definitely be the craziest book I’ve written up to this point.
-A publisher has approached me about another project that wont’ take put too much on the grill (a lot of revamped older works, stuff that’s even my super big readers haven’t seen before.) We’re talkin’ like a short story collection type thing!
-That other publisher mentioned last month is still discussing the details with me, nothing new on it yet, sorry!
–No progress on Nocturna League season 3 this month : :! (That’s changing next month. Promise.)
Frankly, With You Forever‘s been taking so much time away from my regular writing time that its demo will probably be out before anything else, and that’s sort of bothersome.
Genuinely wish I had more to give you, but just like last month it’s another box filled with moths and promises. Keep the faith with me and we’ll walk out of the Valley of Death together.
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Featured Art of the Month: Bug Time by NN
I commissioned this piece as a new banner art for The Bug Pamphlet, an old short story with a lot of charm that surrounds a chance meeting between a (at the time) young mage and a certain merciless dragon slayer.
Order’s just too cool in her “old” Reinish armor. Really wish they didn’t all go to boring silver and white after it fell: the gold and black aesthetic was just so outstanding. They should have never let Longevity make the style calls for The Knights – kid couldn’t dress his way out of a thrift store.
To read this goofy and chaotic short story, please head to https://kellinkston.com/2018/04/06/the-bug-pamphlet-short-story/.
Would you like to be featured in a future update? Feel free to send your fanart pieces over to kell@kellinkston.com. Thanks for your understanding!
A Question:
I’ve been pondering something recently, I need your input.
Would you be interested in buying books directly from me? – as in an actual Kell Inkston online book store?
The obvious benefit for me is greater creative control, and more dollars going my way by cutting out the middle man. Chances are you’d save money too considering I could price certain things (audiobooks come to mind) for less there since Amazon can’t put their hands on their hips and go “wah wah wah” about it all.
Looking forward to your answer.
So-long of the Month
…It’s so strange – A sense of paralysis seizes me whenever I try to move re-edit and rerelease my older works. It feels like moving a mountain, and I simply focus on littler things like art and descriptions and website design until the day passes me by once again. All the little things that go between making something like this take up so much time, it’s truly mind boggling.
Also I’ve finally made my decision on the indie audiobooks – I’m going to narrate them myself.
I’m going to learn how to do this and narrate well because the books are worth it and you’re worth it too. Obviously in today’s high-falutin age of technical wizardry I could just train a learned language audio model to replicate my voice and have it read my books, but that’s kind of lame and lazy so I’ve decided instead of taking the easy ways out of hiring someone or designing a program to do it, I’m going to narrate them myself. It’ll help me appreciate my work on a deeper level, and I think you’ll feel the same way – you better be willing to pay up, because I’m gonna put my heart and soul into these.
Look forward to them!
Take care of yourself this month,
Kell Inkston
Honk shooooo… honk shoooooo… h-hHOOONK… shooooooooo
(“Lil K” by Jujizka – might be the last one for a bit. They’ve been pretty busy lately, bless their heart)
Coffee... WRITING!... COFFEE!! 