An Update on A Tale of Gods and Glory

Art by Maddy Moore

 

I'm not going to lie, I was hoping to be able to do a cover reveal today, but alas the cover is not ready to be revealed and I am now left in the unfortunate predicament of not having any blog post scheduled for today.

So, I guess I'll just give a brief update on where we stand with A Tale of Gods and Glory. 

I finished the final round of edits on it!!! It ended up being 120,000 words long which is... hehe, that's a lot more than the 80k I originally estimated it would be. But now that the edits are done that's it, it's ready to go, it could technically be published today if I only had the cover. But since I am still waiting for the cover, I've decided on the slightly less ambitious release date of...

1.31.2022

It's so close. I honestly cannot wait to share this chaotic tale with you all. This story has been so much fun to write, it's a mixture of comedy and horror and tragedy all told through the eyes of Taliz, my extremely oblivious main character.

The only thing we're waiting on is the cover. Since I don't actually have a specific date that the cover will be done (although it should be done before the 31st, I have my fingers crossed that ends up being the case), I'll probably juts do a post about it as soon as I have it. No fancy cover reveals this time around, we're cutting it too close.

If you don't want to wait till the 31st to get your hands on ATOGAG I currently have a few ARCs to hand out. Simply fill out this form to let me know your interest. You do not need to have it read by the 31st, but I would really appreciate it if you could manage to do that!

“Very well. I will tell you the story of Lord Taliz, but I need to warn you, it isn’t what you are expecting. And it isn’t the tale you have been told.”

“I wouldn’t be here if I believed the tale I had been told.”

The name of Lord Taliz the Champion of Coldhaven is one that almost everyone has heard... but the story? Well, the story is less well known. Now I don’t mean the tale that is sung in every tavern across Ruskhazar. I'm talking about what really happened.

Taliz and his sister Sofarynn are exiles seeking a new home in the mountainous peninsula of Ruskhazar. What they find instead is a world where monsters and magic exist outside of bard’s songs. While looking for work, Taliz instead is recruited by a reclusive group of individuals only to realize too late that they are werewolves. Now a member of the pack with powerful abilities he doesn’t understand, Taliz must learn to balance between who he once was and who—or what—he has become.

To many people Taliz is a hero, a legend, perhaps a figure made up by the bards. Some believe that he never existed at all. Oh, his home Coldhaven was certainly real enough, but how could someone like Taliz have lived and still be considered a mortal?

As the years pass, Taliz works to prove himself to his pack and perhaps in the process woo a beautiful but aloof werewolf named Ylfa. Sofarynn turns her attention to unlocking the mysteries of magic, a force that exists only in Ruskhazar. Except where Taliz goes trouble always follows. The siblings soon find themselves defending their new home from werewolf killers, a cult that worships a tiny statue, and bounty hunters sent to bring them back to their desert homeland to face charges. However, there is something buried under Coldhaven far more dangerous than anything they have ever faced, and it just came back from the dead.

But I’m here to tell you, Taliz is real, he existed, and he is not the hero you believe him to be. Yes, he did the things the bards claim. He charmed monsters, rose in status, saved Coldhaven, and then burned it all to the ground. But there was nothing exceptional about him. So, you may ask how did an ordinary man—a foreigner no less—come to be revered as the champion of the very city he destroyed? Well, I suppose if you trust the bard's accounts it’s because there was a worse fate than the fire, but if you ask me... the bards got it all wrong.

Anyway, that's all for today, hopefully I'll have a cover to reveal later this week. We're almost there, folks! My first release of 2022 coming out very soon.