The Fall of Ossard

[Colin Taber]

Thanks Glynn,

The first is by Shaun Tan who won an Academy Award for best short animated film. He's a great guy who grew up locally in Perth, but has since moved to Melbourne. I love his moody and atmospheric style. The second is by Tanya Beeson, another local artist who coincidentally is also involved in animation.

[Colin Taber]

The Fall of Ossard is being featured today at Pixel of Ink and to celebrate we've dropped the price to 99 cents!

Here's your linkage: http://www.pixelofink.com/bargain-ebook-the-fall-of-ossard-by-colin-taber/

Take advantage of this offer while you can!

[Colin Taber]

Nothing says Christmas more than the smoldering ruins of fallen Ossard!

So, for Christmas, I'm giving away copies of the first book of The Ossard Trilogy.

The Fall of Ossard is now free on Kindle until the last minutes of Christmas Eve!

Feel free to grab a copy or gift it, just follow the cover link to Amazon.

Currently the title is:
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #386 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
#7 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Fantasy > Contemporary

Or in the UK ( http://tinyurl.com/7m3crhg ):
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #422 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
#9 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Fantasy > Contemporary
#10 in Kindle Store > Books > Fiction > Fantasy > Epic

...and still climbing!

Have a great Christmas!

[Colin Taber]

Hello fellow Kindlers,

This is just an invitation for you to consider joining thousands of other readers in sampling the dark delights of fallen Ossard.

Currently, the first book is only 99c (or 89p at Amazon UK http://tinyurl.com/7m3crhg ), and that's for a full length novel!

Ossard is a wealthy city-state of merchant princes where things have come to spoil and begin to go very wrong. If you dare its streets, you will soon meet the last of its innocents, amid rising dark magic, riot, flames and festering squalour.

Happy reading! 

[Colin Taber]

The Fall of Ossard got a great mention at the Kindle Fire Dept today, something that's helped to push it along in the Dark Fantasy Top 100 bestsellers:

http://fireapps.blogspot.com/2012/01/word-ball-todays-free-app-plus-book-of.html

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror > Dark Fantasy

The popularity of this coming of age title grew through December and continues to do so into the new year. Readers have offered all kinds of labels for the story; brooding, coming of age, tragedy and self sacrifice amongst others, as they try and capture the unique essence of this fresh fantasy.

The sequel, Ossard's Hope, is also selling well as the first title draws in new readers. The final book of The Ossard Trilogy, Lae Ossard, will be released later this year.

[Colin Taber]

Hey fellow Kindlers,

I'm just posting to let people know that The Fall of Ossard Kindle edition is free through Sunday and Monday (Pacific US time) on all the Amazons (US http://tinyurl.com/7sk48kt
or UK http://tinyurl.com/7m3crhg )!

Ossard is a wealthy city-state of merchant princes where things have begun to go very wrong. If you dare its streets, you will soon meet the last of its innocents, amidst rising dark magic, riot, flames and festering squalour.

You may even find the world's last flickering flame of hope.

Happy reading!  

[Colin Taber]

Welcome Kindlers,

Over the past couple of months, as The Fall of Ossard has had some great exposure bringing in a host of new readers, I've had an increasing number of emails asking about book 3, Lae Ossard.

I just wanted to report in and say that the beast is well underway, spurred on by steady sales of book 2, Ossard's Hope!

A great place for regular updates is here or my Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Colin-Taber/156306680488

At this stage I'm expecting to announce a date in a month or two, but it's looking to be sometime later this year.

Happy reading!

[Colin Taber]

I'm just dropping by to dust off this old thread.  

The Fall of Ossard has now been in the Dark Fantasy Top 100 for the past 4 months, with Ossard's Hope also spending a good deal of time there.

Work continues on Lae Ossard, the conclusion of the trilogy. I'm hoping to announce a release date soon. Stay posted!

[Colin Taber]

Hi all,

I'm posting to let you know that I've just been invited to attend the Perth Supanova Expo as a guest of Dymocks, Australia's largest book chain. I'll be at their stand on June 23rd and 24th signing books and talking to readers.

http://www.supanova.com.au

Supanova is a multigenre fan expo that gets well over 10,000 people at Perth and close to 100,000 nationally as it tours through Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

If you happen to be in Perth come along and say hello. If things go well I may also very well be going to some of the other east coast expos.

[Colin Taber]

Time to post an Ossard update for those interested:

I should be finishing the 1st draft of Lae Ossard sometime in June. The title currently sits at over 155,000 words, while edits will cut that down the climax to the trilogy is looking to be the biggest part of the whole series by far. In regards to likely release dates; when Ossard's Hope came out a year ago I'd been hoping for Lae Ossard around June 2012. Clearly, that's not going to happen. Currently we're looking like having the book out towards the end of the year. There may even be a spinoff novella.

I'm also working on Project V which should also see the light of day by the end of the year. Project V is an open ended series of shorter books. They will be interesting and punchy reads, opening a window on another world very similar to our own, but with one key difference. If you want to be kept up to date with my doings follow the links in my signature to my Facebook fan page or to my new release email list.

Hope all is well.