Just a short update on the current status of a few things…
Website
It has been almost a year since the Tales of Ambergrove website went live. Because Realm of Chaos will be coming out in about three months, I’d been looking into making some revisions to the website. When I looked over this, mainly to figure out how to add a dropdown menu, I discovered that the theme I selected last year had expired.
Rather than just adding a dropdown menu, I ended up changing the theme altogether. There are new restrictions with this new theme (the most irritating being that I can’t reposition or resize the title image, so the desktop version looks a little weird), but there are more benefits.
We now have a dropdown menu! The navigation is still the same as it was before. The only difference is that in addition to being able to reach individual books by selecting the covers on the Tales page, you may also select the Tales dropdown and pick the book individually. Further down the line, when I move forward to the Hammer and Flame Trilogy, I’ll add an additional break in the dropdown (Tales>Series>Books instead of Tales>Books).
Accessibility is paramount, but I’ve also been able to make a few unique visual changes, such as creating a Tales of Ambergrove image with the Ambergrove logo as the A. I was able to use Paint 3D to thread the leaf from the logo around the m in Ambergrove. I love the way it looks that way.
I changed the colors to a scheme that matched Ambergrove, but I couldn’t change the main background from white. Instead, I was able to change the background of that background—from a pale grey to the night forest from the Realm of Chaos book cover. It gave a darker theme and it also added a touch of magic. (Full image at the bottom of the blog.)
Ranger’s Odyssey Update—Reprint!
In addition to this overhaul to the website, there’s also been a development with Ranger’s Odyssey. Although there wasn’t really participation in the giveaway, I’ve been very bothered by some of the typos that made their way through to the published work. This week, I was able to begin the process to correct these!
What does this mean? Well, I spoke with the publisher and paid for a resubmission for reprint. Yesterday, they got my list of corrections, and the process began. There were little things like comma placement that we didn’t bother with (the amount of allowed corrections is limited), but all the typos are being corrected, and some minor grammatical fumbles are being addressed. Thirty-six minor revisions in total.
The first edition will no longer be printed. Once the resubmission corrections process has been completed and the revisions finalized, the reprint will be released. This should be completed sometime next week! Retailers can still sell the copies of the first edition they’ve already purchased, but once all printed copies have been sold, only the new edition will be available. While the first edition had these unfortunate errors, I do hope that those who have this copy will consider it to be a rare collectible of sorts as time goes on and more tales are released.
Everything else is moving along as it should. I’m chugging along with Wheel of Fate, making other personal developments, and an ARC reader (one I do know) has posted a review of Realm of Chaos on Goodreads. I hope you enjoy the new updates to the website, and I’m excited for the reprint of the revised edition of Ranger’s Odyssey. The wheel keeps turning.
Until next time, adventurers!
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