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Author note: Publishing takes 15 min?

9/21/2016

If you read Amazon Kindle's guides to publishing an eBook, it says, "Takes less than 15 minutes!" I have learned that this is true, if you've already done EVERYTHING else. In a nutshell, this is what Dar Tania looked like:

3 months - Writing Dar Tania
1 month - Rewriting Dar Tania
1 month - ReRewriting Dar Tania
2 weeks - figuring out how to handle the cover art
3 months - hoping the illustrator would finish in time
1 week - realizing the illustrator would not and doing something on my own with runes
1 week - figuring out how to best publish this
2 weeks - securing copyright protections
3 weeks - securing everything else like ISBN, Library of Congress, ISBN barcodes, etc
1 week - freaking out because you can't publish for free and I want Dar Tania to be free
1 week - figuring out how to make it free and wondering if I need to buy a new tablet
2 weeks - waiting for proof copy
3 weeks - Wow! I have a paperback version of Dar Tania!... fading into dread as I see I need to do a ReReRewrite
1 week - updating everything for 2nd proof
2 weeks - waiting for 2nd proof copy

and Yay, that'll take me to done right? 9.5 months. Of course, Malcor's Story took waaaaay longer.

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6,805 YEAR OF TIAMAT

9/14/2016

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IN THE RECKONING OF THE WORLD, THIS IS THE 6,805TH YEAR OF MORBAT. GRANTED THAT THIS RECKONING IS BY OUR GOD EMPEROR ALERIUS, FIRE PATRIARCH OF ALL DRAGONS. THE TEMPLE HAS TAXED ME TO ADD MY THOUGHTS INTO THE HOLIEST OF TIAMAT'S SCRIPTURE AND THOUGH I LACK PATIENCE FOR SUCH TASKS, I AM SWORN TO OBEY. EVEN A KING, EVEN A DRAGON BOWS TO THE TEMPLE AND THE GODDESS TIAMAT.

I HAVE BEEN KING FOR JUST OVER A YEAR. LETS SEE WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO SAY? THE BARDS NORMALLY DO THIS. IF I WERE A BARD, I SUPPOSE I'D TELL YOU ABOUT OUR GREAT KINGDOM, THE DRAGONS, AND THE BEGINNING OF MORBATTEN. MY OWN STORY HAS ITS OWN BOOK - MALCOR'S STORY - TO BE PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2016. THE BARDS TELL ME IT WILL FILL MANY HUNDREDS OF PAGES.

OUR BEGINNINGS HAPPEN WITH A SMALL GIRL, SUITING FOR AN EMPIRE RULED BY WOMEN RIGHT? HER NAME IS DAR TANIA. SHE IS THE FIRST PRIESTESS TO HEAR TIAMAT'S VOICE AND RISE UP AS A CLERIC. HER VISION AND DREAM FOR THIS EMPIRE IS WHY I AM BEING TORTURED INTO WRITING THIS. HER NAME "DAR" HAS BECOME A NOBLE TITLE MEANING SOMETHING LIKE 'MERITORIOUS AND GLORIOUS HERO'. ONLY THE GOD EMPEROR ALERIUS CAN BESTOW THAT TITLE. HER NAME, COMING FROM THE HORSE TRIBE, TACKED ONTO 'MORBAT' NAMES OUR KINGDOM - MORBATTEN, OR MORE FORMALLY MORBATTANIA.

THERE IS A STATUE OF DAR TANIA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GRAND ROAD UP ALERIUS' MOUNTAIN. HER STATUE AS THE 17 YEAR OLD CALLED BY TIAMAT IS THE FIRST ONE OF THE HUNDREDS OF STATUES YOU SEE. THERE IS AN UNBROKEN LINE OF STATUES AND THEN A HUGE GAP ALONG THE ROAD NOT YET FILLED BY TIME. AS YOU ASCEND, HER STATUE IS THE LAST ONE YOU SEE WELCOMING SUPPLICANTS TO THE EMPEROR'S THRONE LAIR. SHE IS TRANSCENDED AND BEAUTIFUL AND AGELESS. THOUGH A STATUE, HER HAIR BURNS RED AND HER LIPS SPARK WITH FIRE AS DO ALL TRANSCENDED PRIESTESSES.

HER STORY IS READY NOW - DAR TANIA. I INVITE YOU TO SEEK IT OUT AND PLUMB ITS DEPTHS TO BETTER UNDERSTAND US. I WRITE TO YOU ACROSS TIME AND SPACE WITH A SIMPLE PLEA. THIS GEM YOU NOW CALL 'EARTH' SITS AT THE FULCRUM OF HEAVEN, HELL, AND CHAOS. AS THESE 3 "PLACES" SHIFT ABOUT PARTS OF THE WORLD ARE DRAWN TOWARDS PARADISE, WAR, AND WARP. THE DRAGONS BIRTHED MY NATION TO PRESERVE THE WORLD FOR TIAMAT, WHO CLAIMS IT AS HER THRONE. ONLY THIS GEM ALONE IN THE VASTY REACHES OF ETERNITY GIVES BIRTH TO HEROES THAT CAN RISE UP AND BECOME GODS. ONLY IN THIS WORLD DOES A HERO'S FAITH MULTIPLY THEIR GOD'S POWERS AND DOMINION.

I AM BEING CHALLENGED TO A DUEL AND MUST LEAVE, BUT THIS IS A START. NEXT TIME, I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THE RIVER OF TIME.

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6,805 YEAR OF TIAMAT

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