For those of you who have begun following Sylvarion's Challenge, you'll be glad to know that it's rapidly developing into a far longer piece than I had originally intended. What started out as a writing exercise is becoming a full-blown novel (or a novella at the very least)!

Look for more teasers to be posted over the next few weeks, but I'm going to have to hold the bulk of the work back to await publication (whether in electronic or print form remains to be seen).

Sylvarion's Challenge would have remained nothing more than two or three pages of scribbles if it weren't for this blog and the interest the story has generated here. So thank you for your support in the form of both e-mails and comments--the readership has spoken!

A special thank you also to those of you who have already signed up to be Founding Subscribers of Wet Ink...! I'm so thrilled about the energetic feedback I've been receiving around this promotion--it's already been beyond my wildest expectations. So thank you, thank you, thank you, and I promise you, you can all look forward to an exciting year to come!

The former "Mind Unbound" newsletter has been reborn! The newsletter will henceforth be titled Wet Ink..., the monthly companion to Straight from the Barrel...

Wet Ink... will feature news and updates on my own fiction, thoughts and anecdotes on the road to publication, recommendations of other authors from my own personal library, and occasional special offers made available exclusively to Wet Ink... subscribers.

The first official issue will come out on January 1, but I've just released a special "prequel" issue for the month of December. Request the prequel issue before January 1 to be counted among the "Founding Subscribers" of Wet Ink...!

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