New Month, New Record, New Contest!

Before I get into the fun contest I promised, I want to thank everyone who visits the blog, subscribed to my twitter @Rick_Ferraro, and most of all have bought and enjoyed my books. The month of July saw a little over 10 times as many copies sold for Rogue's Bane alone, with Unearthed Destiny picking up speed as well since it was released this month and folks are finishing up the first book. If you're one of those who just started Rogue's Bane or have finished it and are waiting on Unearthed Destiny, then this contest is for you!

What exactly is the contest for August? Awful Fan Art.
The awards? The top five winners will get a free copy of Unearthed Destiny!

Scanned drawings, mspaint art, photoshop, any medium you want, but it must be pertaining to Rogue's Bane. Feel free to pick a character, a scene, a new cover or anything else but try and make it as wonderfully awful as possible. I'm not just looking for stick figures fighting with each other, but straight up, well-done awful fan art, the goofier the better. Some examples of terrible fan art can be found here

Just submit your own contribution to this blog in the comments (IMGUR.com works well for image hosting, if you don't have your own), by Saturday, August 27 at midnight. I will select the winners by Sunday afternoon, with a new post detailing the winner's names and their art. Good luck everyone, and I hope we get some delightfully terrible submissions!

End of Month Review Copies

Things are going well, with Rogue's Bane still climbing in sales each day. In an effort to get more out there and hopefully get some more reviews on the Amazon pages for the novels I'll be giving out 5 review copies to anyone who wishes them for their book review blogs, fantasy author blogs, etc. Just hit me up on twitter @Rick_Ferraro with a link to your blog and I'll choose 5 of the submissions to send out. On that note if you have bought Rogue's Bane and enjoyed it, please let the world know and leave a review at Amazon!

Unearthed Destiny Live!

Yes that's right, the second novel of the Arellia's Son series is now live on Amazon's kindle market! Click the link HERE to be taken to the Unearthed Destiny page at Amazon. Also if you'll notice the last post, there's been a small revision update to Rogue's Bane, so be sure to grab it HERE as well if you want the update. Now that I have two books remember you can always check out my author page at Amazon HERE which automatically updates with new blog updates and tweets from my account (Rick_Ferraro).

Unearthed Destiny Cover Finished!

I just got the final revision of the cover for Unearthed Destiny, the second book in the series. I hope to make some final edits to the novel this week (mostly going through the hair-pulling task of formatting it for kindle's format) and it should be up. The goal is for Unearthed Destiny to be on the Kindle market by Friday morning.

In addition, some of you may have noticed two minor changes. First, after some thought and deliberation the old title for the series, the "Ranger's Destiny Chronicles" has gone to the wayside in favor of "Arellia's Son Trilogy", which fits the theme of the books and also marks it as a finalized trilogy. To everyone who has already bought Rogue's Bane, there will be a new version (version 2) that incorporates this fact into the initial page. In addition the new version fixes a formatting error, two small typos left over from editing, and info on the wonderful artist who did both of my covers, so don't miss out on downloading the new update!

Rogue's Bane Live Soon!

Rogue's Bane, the first book in the "Arellia's Son" trilogy, is now under official review on Amazon's ebook marketplace and should be active within the next 24 hours. The long, nearly 500 page novel is priced at just $2.99. Check it out and let me know what you think!

Edit: The main page is now live, with ordering/purchase available by 7 pm CST on June 13, 2011. Click here to be taken to the Amazon page!