Ranger’s Odyssey has been available for four months now! It’s now available in four public libraries and two school libraries (that I know of). Additionally, there are listings all over the world!
I’m most excited about Waterstones, because I went there when I was an exchange student in Scotland. It’s unbelievable what a few months can do!
Speaking of, I wanted to take the opportunity to remind you about our first giveaway. Since we’re four months in, that means there’s just two months left of the Terrible Typos Tournament. So far, there have been no formal entries. Remember, you don’t have to find them all. If we get to the deadline (April 15) and no one has submitted them all, or there are less than five entrants, winners will be determined based on how many were submitted.
I won’t be extending the deadline due to lack of entries. If you’re interested in the prizes, please be sure to submit your entry to talesofambergrove@gmail.com by April 15 to win! Specifications copied again below:
On the topic of upgrades, I upgraded my Artisan Alcove in the past week or so, and I finished my changes over the weekend. My alcove has now been optimized as a writing sanctuary.
When we bought our house, I turned one of the rooms into an office. It was the previous owner’s daughter’s room, and it was painted a yucky light green with fairy decals and an ugly, purple mushroom painted on the wall. When I was a teacher, I just left it that way. I got a giant corner desk and I tried to have the room as a combination office and craft room. The crafting was already really on the back burner, but it did work pretty well for a couple years.
The winter after I quit teaching, I decided to make the room my own. I painted the white floor and door, and I painted over the wall with a green I liked and a Celtic knot border. But I didn’t do anything else with it. It was still an office. It still rarely was used. I got a recliner from my grandma, and I used it a little more, but not much. I called it my Artisan Alcove, but it wasn’t really that. Until now.
I sold my giant corner desk and moved a couple other big pieces to another room. Then, I rearranged what was already in there, moved the futon from my husband’s room—with his help—over to my room, constructed and painted a small cabinet, painted a sign with my library listing on it, constructed a rolling stand for my husband’s old TV so I could put it in front of my closet and easily move it (connected to my desktop computer as a third monitor), and sewed pillowcases in a cute material (squirrels, chipmunks, and bunnies reading books).
Now, as well, both diagonal walls are completely clean except for the original Ranger’s Odyssey cover art, so they’re available for the next covers to be added as they come. Up to seventeen more, if I can get the same cover artist to do that many. (She’ll be 73 when we get to that point, so I don’t expect her to still want to do them.)
I changed the background color to dark blue to deal with the brightness issue, so now I can recline on the futon or in the recliner with a wireless keyboard in my lap while I’m writing. The ambient lighting and environment have been very conducive to writing the past few days. Now I’m able to go up to my sanctuary to write, I’ve been able to make a lot of progress with Realm of Chaos. Sucessful upgrade!
In other news, we’re seven months away from the submission date for Realm of Chaos! I’m a little over a hundred pages into the first draft, and I expect things to progress much faster now. I hope to have the first draft finished by the time the typos giveaway deadline. Again, be sure to send in your entries by April 15! For now, back to work on Realm of Chaos.
Until next time, adventurers!
Tales of Ambergrove 