A November update from your favourite author!
Why hello there folks, happy November! I hope the coming winter doesn't get too cold for those of you up there in the Northern Hemisphere, down here in Buenos Aires its warming up quite nicely! We've already been touching 30C and its barely November! I'll be quite happy to spend some time in NZ over Christmas when 30 is usually the limit and not the baseline xD
Anyway, that's not what you're all here to hear about (well, maybe for some of you?). Let's see what news I have to give you about my books. First up I'd like to just give another shout out to my Youtube channel which is slooooowly growing - over 250 subscribers last I checked! That's a quarter of the way to monetisation wohoo! Anyway, my audiobooks continue to release on the channel, with all chapters of both Stormwielder AND Firestorm now all available free for your ears to listen! That, and Soul Blade is allmoooost complete as well, so make sure you jump over and subscribe to the channel, plus like and comment on any of the videos you enjoyed listening too!
In other news, I've now moved onto the final draft of Rogue's Gambit, the sequel to Warden's Justice, and wooof this has been an interesting book to write. I had thought I might finish it earlier than this, but I've never written an heist novel before, and especially not one with a fantasy setting, so it's been a bit of a haul making all the pieces fit together. I'm glad I took my time though, because I think its really coming together in this final draft, however, and I can't wait to release to you all at the end of the month!
I think that's really all the news for my fantasy stuff for now. I will for sure be sending out a few other notes this month, given that book I'll soon be releasing, but for now I guess that's it. I hope you're doing well wherever you are and as always...
Write on!
Aaron Hodges
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Dear Mr. Hodges,
I contacted you once before, when The Knights of Alana arrived, to tell you how impressed I was with the quality and presentation of the book. I have the hardback “Silver” edition. At the time, I had barely begun to read Daughter of Fate.
Now, I have finished that book, and want to let you know that I have found three errors in the text that the proofreaders missed. Maybe they have been noted by other readers, and have been corrected by now, but here they are:
Page 24, third line from the bottom, “Okra” should be “Ikar.”
Page 26, fifth line from the top, “Merck” should be “Marek.”
Page 146, ninth line up from the bottom, “birth” should be “berth.”
And a comment: On page 137, the fourteenth line, “Okay.”
This was jotting to me. Your story is set in a society technologically developed to about the period of the Second or Third Crusade on earth. Of course, you have to write in contemporary English, but “okay” didn’t come into its present usage in the United States until the presidential campaign of Martin van Buren in 1840; he was nicknamed “Old Kinderhook” and known as OK. (See Wikipedia article on OK for other possibilities.)
I’m suggesting that you change “Okay" to something that would have been used in the 17th or 18th century that today’s readers would easily understand, in keeping with the rest of your text.
Your writing is excellent. All the individuals are well characterized and described, so there is no trouble remembering who they are, and no disconnects in their movements in relation to each other. When I read, images go through my mind like a movie, and it bothers me when a character jumps from one place to another without explanation. I didn’t find any such lapses in your text, at all. I look forward to the remaining books and to Warden’s Justice, when it arrives.
All best wishes for a blessed holiday season,
Elizabeth Haynes
Springfield, Virginia
USA