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TLDR at the bottom.
With tomorrow marking one year since I made my last announcement, I figured it was time I finally came out with more details about what I've been up to. As many of you might assume, writing a book isn't as easy as opening up word and throwing words on a blank page. I love the process but the more I wrote, the more I realized where I needed improvement so I paused my writing to get some more practice in and learn more. The excuses "practicing and learning" can make it all too easy to keep doing what you're doing without ever releasing anything though, as many of us have seen when it comes to AVN's, so I figured it's time to light a fire under my ass to get stuff done and released.
The story of Evermore will have too much content for just one book and I'll have to release a series. The title I decided to go for is "Blood of Creation".
The title Evermore is not abandoned, it's simply much better suited to be the title of the final book, Blood of Creation: Evermore. I chose the name carefully to reflect the overall story of the series and some of you might be able to see some elements of the bigger picture already if you remember the lore in Evermore. The magical energy was called Ichor after all:
The game gave pretty big hints to the true nature of the MC.
As for the part where I light a fire under my ass so I don't stay in "practice and learning" purgatory for a decade:
I realized the best way to learn is to just do something and get feedback, so I'm writing a shorter book that I will release as soon as it's finished and I've gotten feedback from people I know. Releasing content and getting feedback was how I improved from 0.1 of the game to what it eventually became, after all.
It will be part of the series Blood of Creation and be a story that takes place in parallel to Evermore. Some of the characters were going to come into Evermore later on, and one of them was already shown in the game, but you guys hadn't gotten time to know him yet.
It won't be clear how it connects to Evermore in the beginning, but trust that it expands on events taking place elsewhere during the game, and some of the schemes that the MC's enemies have been up to. In terms of timeline, the events of the novel take place shortly after the Evermore festival, around version 0.5 and what would have been 0.6.
I will be releasing a short description/synopsis today as well as the title and a concept for the cover.
(The concept of the cover will be AI. I plan to get an actual artist for book covers but I won't dish out a couple hundred dollars for a simple post)
TLDR: The main book series is titled Blood of Creation, with Evermore serving as the title of the final book. To get feedback and hone my prose before releasing the main series, I'm releasing a shorter side story first that connects directly to the lore.