High Mage cover blurb
Just to get you that much more excited, here's the blurb for the cover. Actual cover still languishes in the pits of despair, but I'm sure I'll get something slapped together. I've mastered the first 20 chapters, should have the rest done soon.
And no, I'm not precisely aware of just when "soon" might be.
Here's the blurb:
And no, I'm not precisely aware of just when "soon" might be.
Here's the blurb:
Rock Star!
Things were starting to look up for Magelord Minalan the
Spellmonger – the magic mountain in his domain not only made him a wealthy man
and the most powerful mage in history, it also produced a lode of magical
gemstones with unique properties – properties the Alka Alon, the masters of
magic on Callidore, are fascinated by.
When Minalan gets his chance to trade some of his magic rocks for
irionite, he finds himself in a position to raise hundreds more magi with the
stones . . . making them High Magi.
But as valuable as that bargain is for prosecuting the war
with the Dead God and his sinister armies, such power comes with a hefty
price. Every new High Mage Minalan
raises presents potential new problems. The
Magelords have inspired fear in their neighbors. The warmagi invent deadly new spells. The lower orders of magi are getting
restless. The mage-led Sevendor Town wants a new
charter. King Rard and the royal court
are pressuring the nascent Arcane Orders politically. Some magi are crossing the Penumbra and
taking stones from the goblins, as well as taking their service. And some are just starting to get a little
crazy.
It makes a nice, normal little raid on his lands seem refreshing in its simplicity.
In trying to balance the needs of the war with the needs of
a well-ordered Order, Minalan finds himself making compromises, cutting deals,
and bargaining what power he has in a high-stakes game where Chaos seems to be
the only player who knows the rules. The
temptations of his position and the power he wields are great, but so, he
discovers, are the responsibilities. But
when his patience seems nearly exhausted and his alliances seem ready to
crumble, a massive army emerges from the shadowy realms and strikes south, forcing
the High Magi to rally around the Spellmonger in defense of the kingdom.
As the genocidal goblin army marches toward the
once-prosperous cottonlands of Gilmora, Minalan and his High Magi must defend a
single bridge against them at all costs.
And they are ready to. But the
plans of magi count little when the powerful and subtle mind of the Dead God
opposes them. For when the die is cast
and the first blow is struck, it becomes clear that nothing is as Minalan had
foreseen. As disaster looms for the
humani kingdom and even the Alka Alon are threatened, only a desperate appeal
to divinity, a dangerously risky adventure and a little classy enchantment offer
any hope against calamity. For the day
has come when all that stands between ruin and survival is the bravery and
cunning of the Spellmonger and his High Magi!
Can't Wait!!!
ReplyDeleteI cant bloody wait!
ReplyDeletedude. That is a great cover! I'm really nervous about your blurb here. Don't hurt my Min! :) Thanks for all your hard work. I'm still refreshing amazon and here like mad lol.
ReplyDeleteyea great cover, now lets read the book!!
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ReplyDeleteBook Six?
ReplyDeleteWhat was book five? Is it the short stories / novella collection?
Oh yea thats true. I don't a book 5. If it's an error please put out High Magi anyway then change it later.
ReplyDeleteThis wait it killing me!!!
ReplyDeleteI was hoping it would have been out by now. If it comes out tonight this late i'm never going to get sleep!
ReplyDeleteAt 175K+ words it is going to be more than a night's sleep that is lost! This book is going to take a while.
Deletelol look at the site counter each time u check its gone up another 1k
ReplyDeleteMust...stop obsessively refreshing this page.
ReplyDeleteim right there with you
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