Information about the Raven of Iskandar Series
The Raven of Iskandar Christmas Story ‘Christmas Eve 2226’ is now available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082KFJQYJ
Also! I’ll be running a free ebook promotion on Sunday, December 15th. Available for free will be Christmas Eve 2226, Raven: The Call from Central (Raven of Iskandar Book 1) and The Day the Elves Stole My Wife (Short story collection with Yvonne Marrs).
It’ll run for one day, so grab all three for free on Sunday!
The Christmas story about Raven at 8 years old is finished. I had firmly in mind what happened to the Star Wars Christmas Special and did not want history to repeat itself. If you never heard about the Star Wars Christmas Special, save yourself the cringe and don’t go find it (I think it is on Youtube).
However, this Raven Christmas story was written with the idea that I was writing about a real family and kept the players in their characters. There’s a lot of tradition basically because that’s how Christmas always felt to me.
The story will go up on Amazon either Monday or Tuesday, depending on what chores get thrown my way. Again, if you want a personal copy, you can email me at ravenofiskandar@gmail.com. You can get a pdf or I’ll even take a stab at a conversion to mobi, epub or whatever format you want.
Here’s a preview of the cover:
The Christmas story is finished in first draft. It ran a bit longer than I thought, it tops out at over 5300 words but I think it turned out well. A lot of tradition in it, at least Necris tradition.
We’re going through the editing process now. In fact, Yvonne has finished her first pass and there’s very little red on it.
Working with Yvonne Marrs has some interesting effects. One thing we don’t agree on is capitalization. That seems to be another difference between British and American. For example, in the US we would write “The captain called the dean at the university.” The British version would be “The Captain called the Dean at the University.” In my view that’s a little too capital crazy. Although I’ll have to admit that I’d really like to see something in between…maybe Australia or Canada???
As I mentioned before, if you want a pdf copy of the short story, send an email to
Otherwise, the story will go up on Amazon, probably for 99 cents and be only available for kindle.
Of course, I could probably do the conversion myself and offer it to you as an epub or mobi. Something to think about.
You can tell I’m getting close to finishing the first draft when I start crafting the cover.
The background image is from the website Unsplash where photographers can upload images royalty free. Here I’m going to give credit to this wonderful image. The artist who created the background image is Alexander Andrews.
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