Week 8 of 2024
Greetings all
As I mentioned, I ended last week with a nasty cold. It knocked me back on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. However, despite all that, I had a really productive week, though not necessarily on everything I anticipated.
Let’s start with Okkorim because I have art to show off!
Over the last few months I’ve been fleshing out the pantheon of gods in Okkorim. This batch included 10 major gods and 30 lesser ones, and is over 60,000 words of description, dogma, new spells, new magic items, and religious institutions.
Okkorim is already a cool setting, but I can absolutely tell you there’s some amazing stuff in here. Divine Revelations is a small primer of the cosmology of Okkorim available to Luke’s Patreon followers. He wrote most of it, but I’m also editing a bunch of stuff they have, as I did with this.
Next is Mirelie, the deity of magic among other things. Luke came up with the basic concept, but this supplement is the fuller depiction of Mirelie. What do the priests do? What symbols represent the deity? Where are their major religious sites? What are the religious orders who follow Mirelie? And of course, several new spells and magic items.
I’m excited about what I’ve been able to contribute, and I think it’s going to be something players of D&D 5E and Castles and Crusades will love.
Again, if you’re interested, go to: patreon.com/GaxxWorx and sign up for at least the Silver Membership ($5/month). That gives you all the G20 magazine stuff that comes out, and let me tell you, I’m editing a ton.
Let’s turn to Paladins of Valor. It’s basically in the can and goes to the editor next week. Just waiting on a few edits.
I’ll give you a tease of two authors I was excited to work with in here. First, there’s Edie Skye, the author of the Titan Mage fantasy romance series. Here stories can be spicy or not, but they always have a lot of action.
On a completely different note, we also have Glen Cook returning with another Black Company story. I’ve been honored over the years by his support.
Speaking of New Mythology Press, we’ve been kinda quiet lately. This has been because we’re rearranging some of the foundational stuff in the background to make it work smoother for us to produce and cooler for you to read.
I can’t yet get into specifics, but I’ll tell you this, the schedule for later in the year is starting to come together.
One of the changes, by the way, is that we’re moving the bigger announcements and stuff to New Mythology’s mailing list, as I announced some time ago.
Here’s the link to join: chriskennedypublishing.com/fantasy-mailer/
Also, I started another sooper-seekrit project this week. It’ll be some months before I can talk about it, but I think it’ll be really.
Oh, one last thing. The local historic theater is going to show Star Wars on Saturday, May 4th. We’re planning a shindig and I have a question for you:
What is your favorite Star Wars-themed food?
Quote of the Week
Still hits me in the feels 43 years later.
“Do you believe in miracles? Yes!”
– Al Michaels on February 22, 1980, as time ran out in the USA-USSR hockey game in Lake Placed.
Rob’s Works in Progress
- Sowing Spring’s Wrath (3,213)
- The Feasting of Vengeance (4,411)
Upcoming Events
- Planet Comicon, March 8-10, Kansas City, KS
planetcomicon.com/ - GaryCon, March 21-24, Lake Geneva, WI
garycon.com/ - FantaSci, April 19-21, Durham, NC
fantasci.rocks/ - LibertyCon, June 21-23, Chattanooga, TN
libertycon.org/ - Pennsic War, July 26 – August 11, Slippery Rock, PA
pennsicwar.org/
Freebies and Cool Stuff
New Releases
This week’s release takes us back to the Fallen World, as Brisco Woods continues his saga of the first nanite-enhanced Specialist in Truth and Consequences. Get it here: amazon.com/dp/B0CVNF5F6R.
That’s the 20th book in the Fallen World now! Wow!
Your pre-release this week is book 2 in James Fox’s Sol Saga universe. It’s called Retaliation and you can get it here: amazon.com/dp/B0CW29B39G.
Tracked Items
My Weight Today: 371.4 lbs
Updated Word Count: Need to update the spreadsheet, somewhere around 40k this year so far.
Firehall Sagas Archives: 758 entries
Have a great week, everyone.
Rob Howell
Creator of the Firehall Sagas Universe
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