THE BLACK GOD'S WAR--The Novel Arriveth! #SFFWRTCHT Tonight!

[MosesSiregarIII]

UPDATE:

Here are the links to the newly released novel:

The Black God's War [A Stand-Alone Novel] (Splendor and Ruin, Book I)


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Hi everyone, I'm thrilled to be here and very thankful for this warm community. I hope you'll sample my dramatic work and consider writing a review. The title just went live on Amazon and Smashwords.

THE BLACK GOD'S WAR: A Novella Introducing a New Epic Fantasy

Her father-king wants war.

Her messianic brother wants peace.

The black god wants his due.

She suffers all the consequences.

"An inventive tale with high command of craft."
--Scott Nicholson, Author of Drummer Boy

Buy it for the introductory price of 89 cents. Word count: 24K.

ing Vieri’s war against the lands of Pawelon rages into its tenth year, and with the kingdom’s holy savior, his son Caio, en route to the fighting in the storied canyon, victory ought to come soon. Feeling abandoned by his god, King Vieri forces young Caio to lead his army to victory.

The Black One, Lord Danato, tortures Lucia with nightly visions promising another ten years of bloodshed. She can no longer tell the difference between the waking world and Danato's nightmares. Lucia knows the black god too well; he entered her bed and dreams when she was ten.

As the epic battles rage, Lucia struggles to understand the messages of The Black One, while Caio wrestles with his conscience: Can someone who only wants to heal the world bring himself to kill another man?
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A novella-length story introducing a new epic fantasy novel by the same title.

Lucia, from THE BLACK GOD’S WAR, drawn by Rich W. Ware

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In this video, I read from my first chapter. You can also read the first chapter for free on my GoodReads profile.

[David 'Half-Orc' Dalglish]

Very nice presentation.

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[MosesSiregarIII]

Thanks David and Betsy & Ann.

David, what I did for the drop cap (as you can probably guess) is I made a small graphic that uses the baby blue color as the background color, then inserted it where the first sentence starts.

I have a bit of news, too. I just got my first review on my book! It was a very thoughtful review, so it was a great way to get started. EDIT: And a second review was just added.

[Sandra Edwards]

Good luck with the new book! Hope you get tons of sales :-)

Sandy

[MosesSiregarIII]

Thanks Sarah, it's been great fun so far and the feedback has been better than I'd hoped for.

And I even have a product description now! 

[davethedc]

Hey!
Awesome cover!
sounds interesting. i may just check it out!
Good luck
Dave

[MosesSiregarIII]

Thanks very much, Dave! Since you mentioned the cover, here's a question I was recently asked in an interview:

How did you create your cover?

A muse popped the idea into my head to put together half a woman’s face with an ancient Greek helm. I dug around on istockphoto.com until the perfect images manifested, and then I went to work on laying it all out. The woman fits the description of one of the key goddesses in my story. Her ethnicity is perfect, her hair is exactly as I pictured it, and she’s covered in vines--just like the goddess Mya from the story. I also got a lot of help and input from my friends on Facebook (shout out to David Kerschner).


Your series looks great, David. Congratulations on that. There are so many interesting fantasy reads around here!

[MosesSiregarIII]

And it's got five reviews on Amazon now.

Here's my recent author interview on the Kindle Author blog.

[slwiser]

Very good read...looking forward to the more complete version.

[MosesSiregarIII]

Very good read...looking forward to the more complete version.

Thank you, slwiser!

[MosesSiregarIII]

Eight Amazon reviews now, and I'm excited for the excerpt that should go out to Kindle Nation Daily's email list on Monday (Labor Day in the US). Thanks for reading this.

[Monique]

Very good read...looking forward to the more complete version.

Agreed. I really enjoyed it and I love your cover.

[MosesSiregarIII]

Thanks, Monique! I've actually read the first (long) chapter of your work, and despite it being way out of my normal genre reading, I think it's excellent so far. I've found so many great writers around here.

[Monique]

Thanks, Monique! I've actually read the first (long) chapter of your work, and despite it being way out of my normal genre reading, I think it's excellent so far. I've found so many great writers around here.

Cool! Thanks. I hope you like the rest of it too.

I just checked out your rankings. Dang! You're kicking bootay! Congratulations. I feel like I can say I was there when...

[MosesSiregarIII]

I just checked out your rankings. Dang! You're kicking bootay! Congratulations. I feel like I can say I was there when...

Ha! It is going to be cool to see if any of the KB indies become rock stars someday. Whoever they are (Hocking? Nicholson?), I'll be a groupie in their entourage.

So I've been having a nice couple days. I'm currently sitting at #529 in the overall Kindle store and #6 in the Kindle>Fantasy>Epic category.

My free, six-chapter excerpt is up on Kindle Nation Daily.

There's also a KND blog sponsorship today, and later today Kindle Nation Daily is also likely to be posting my YouTube video, in which I read my first chapter (also linked to at the end of the first post in this thread).

EDIT: Here's KND's post with the video.

[D. Nathan Hilliard]

It looks like your promo is going great!

It's a very good book and I wish you success with it. I can't wait until the full novel comes out.

[MosesSiregarIII]

Groovy, D. Nathan. Thank you.

So Kindle Nation Daily posted a video of me reading the first chapter. They did a great job for me.

From the Lies, d*mn Lies, and Amazon Rankings department, I'm currently the #3 book in Kindle > Fantasy > Epic, ahead of everyone not named Sanderson or Martin. Also #372 overall. I did not expect that to happen.

[Valmore Daniels]

Groovy, D. Nathan. Thank you.

So Kindle Nation Daily posted a video of me reading the first chapter. They did a great job for me.

From the Lies, d*mn Lies, and Amazon Rankings department, I'm currently the #4 book in Kindle > Fantasy > Epic, ahead of everyone not named Sanderson, Martin, or Weeks. Also #395 overall. I did not expect that to happen.

You're doing fantastic, Moses.  You have a great cover and solid writing.  I can't wait for the full novel!

[MosesSiregarIII]

You're doing fantastic, Moses.  You have a great cover and solid writing.  I can't wait for the full novel!

You're great, Valmore. Thanks very much.

If anyone out there has read the work, I'd be thrilled to hear more from you about your experience with it. Likes, dislikes, opinions, etc.?

[MosesSiregarIII]

There are now 14 Amazon reviews on this work, including a new one that blew me away.

I've been keeping busy recently, editing chapters from the full novel. I can't tell you how excited I am to complete the work and make it available, but it won't be released until it's professionally edited and absolutely ready.

As before, any comments or questions on this work are welcome.

[M.R. Mathias]

I saw you featured here yesterday:      http://indiefantasywritersunlimited.blogspot.com/

[MosesSiregarIII]

Good call, M.R. I should've linked to that. I may also have a review to link to in the next week or two.

[M.R. Mathias]

PM me any review links that you cpme across to sites with more than 500 followers.   

[MosesSiregarIII]

I hit a little milestone recently. I got my 15th Amazon review. It's up to eight 5-star reviews and seven 4-star reviews.

One of the scariest things coming into this was not knowing how the book would be received and reviewed, but thanks to beginner's luck it's been a good start.