New news: French publisher Alkonost is crowdfunding editions of Heart of Ice, Fabled Lands and Cyclades by Emmanuel Quaireau and Patrick Fontaine.
Jamie and I are currently working on his Vulcanverse project (more on that tomorrow) which draws very loosely on Greek myth, so we ought to take a look at Cyclades ourselves.
You can reserve your copies by backing the books here. Meanwhile, any excuse for Kate Bush:
Does their air conditioner work OK?
ReplyDeleteLol -- yes, it seems to be fine.
DeletePlease tell me that Alkonost crowdfunding 1 or more editions of Fabled Lands means that we are getting either Book 8 or another Fabled Lands Quests
ReplyDeletePaul Gresty's FL Quest version of Castle of Lost Souls is all ready to go, but somebody needs to run to Kickstarter to fund it. Now, if somebody would just run the Kickstarter to fund the Kickstarter... :-)
DeleteAnother question
DeleteIf I ever won £200,000 or more on the lottery would you, Jamie and Paul Gresty be interested in the sum £24,000 each to make me a copy of The FL Quest version of Castle of Lost Souls
In case you are wondering it would be a copy of The FL Quest version of Castle of Lost Souls that is both custom build and unique
The reason that it would be both custom build and unique would be so that it would be a challenge for my Super-Powerful FL Character
Naturally it would have things to loot and things earned as payments and rewards that would be unique
If I ever won £310,000 or more on the lottery would a payment of £40,000 be enough to single-handely kickstart FL Quest version of Castle of Lost Souls
ReplyDeleteIf I had access to lottery money there are so many cherished projects I'd want to work on. My comic Mirabilis Year of Wonders is top of the list, closely followed by Figments, the storyworld computer game concept I devised with Leo Hartas 20 years ago (still ahead of its time), and my and Jamie's TV show Timestorm. I'd publish Oliver Johnson's superb fantasy novel The Knight of the Fields and I'd bankroll any projects that James Wallis, John Whitbourn and Tim Harford want to work on because I know they'd be brilliant.
DeleteThen, if we're talking about a multi-rollover win, I'd see if Demis Hassabis wants to regain full control of DeepMind because it's by far the most interesting venture around today and I have more confidence in him than in Elon Musk, say, though I'd talk to Elon about getting our Von Neumann Probes launched. I'd need to partner with other jackpot winners to pull all that off.
I'm not banking on any of it though. If there was a decent chance of winning then they wouldn't call it a lottery.
I had a dream last night that was part 1st edition Advanced Dungeons And Dragons and part Fabled Lands. Here's the info I remember. What do you think?
ReplyDeleteThe dream showed that no matter how busy they are, what they are doing, what they are planning and what's going on in The World that The Cathedral to Ebron in Aku always has at least well over 1 thousand Clerics of Ebron in it
The Dream also showed that no matter what the minimum number of Clerics of Ebron has in it amounts to 1,050 1st level, 300 3rd level, 50 5th level, 50 7th level, 6 11th level, 1 12th level, 1 14th level, 1 17th level and 1 20th level
That's a lot of priests!
DeleteI know but consider that of all The Places in the World that are Sacred to Ebron this is the most sacred
DeleteTheir is also the fact that that it is The Biggest Cathedral to Ebron in The World, which means that it makes sense
I haven't given any thought to the population of Uttaku, but Jamie wrote book 5 so maybe he has. Apparently in the modern world there is one priest for every 3000 Catholics, but Bhutan has one monk for every 100 Buddhists, so I can't even begin to guess.
DeleteOK, I asked Jamie and he said:
Delete"There are whole bunch of crazy muttering priests in there praising Ebron, the Faceless King and the High Priest day in day out. These priests even starve to death rather than leave their posts, fanatically singing paeans and prayers. The priests that take their zealotry that far become martyred saints of Ebron with little triptych portraits of them on the walls of the Cathedral. There are always more to take their place."