It’s that time again, my monthly recap of my writing progress, interesting articles, videos, and podcasts I read/watched/listened to, and books I finished. Check out the past installments here.

Writing update

If you read my newsletter last month, you know that going forward, I’m planning on releasing each future entry in the series as one longer book rather than shorter novellas.

This is going to start with the first book itself, because as of this writing, I’m not planning to release Recruit as a stand-alone novella.

But don’t worry, because you’ll be able to get the full Guild of Tokens book for the same price as Recruit would have cost.

The book will be out in June and this will be a hard deadline for me, because I plan on entering Guild of Tokens in next year’s Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off (SPFBO for short), which opens for entries in mid-June.

(By the way, if you haven’t been following this year’s incarnation, go check out the finalists on Mark Lawrence’s blog for some great fantasy reads.)

Next month I will hopefully have some more news for you on a specific release date, along with the new cover and a big audiobook announcement.

Links and things

• The true story behind the Legend of Zelda potion maker
• The future of personalized entertainment
• Disney and the Future of TV
• Every MCU end credits scene in sequence:

Stuff for writers

• David Gaughran’s How to sell books in 2019
• 14 Fantastic Marketing Tips for Debut Authors
• Two-part interview on Facebook ads with Maria Luis on the Spa Girls podcast

Books I read

• Perennial Seller, by Ryan Holiday
• Uncanny Collateral, by Brian McClellan
• One Word Kill, by Mark Lawrence