A Crucible of Light is a Rising Star!
Thank you to everyone who has read, followed, favorited, commented, rated and reviewed the story.
I know that this story frankly won't be (and isn't) for everyone. It's an extremely slow burn and really takes its time. I intentionally took my time in the first Arc to set up a lot of pieces for what will follow in a long, long story (we still aren't through Arc 1, which I internally refer to as the Introduction Arc). I was OK with this decision because this story was written for an audience of one in mind: myself. It has been living in my head for about ten years before I decided to put fingertips to keyboard. I eventually decided to put it out there for the world. I would have been happy with the story bringing enjoyment to anyone, but the fact that it has seen such a warm welcome is an amazing surprise. I'm forever grateful.
I would also like to thank everyone in the author community here on RR! I am still very new to the scene, but have found everyone to be, generally, extremely nice, helpful, and welcoming. I don't think that's common in many artistic circles. You all rock!
Official Map Artwork.
This novel's true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there.
As a show of my appreciation for all you early readers, I will be commissioning an official map for the story. To be honest, I've been working on one myself but learned (i) my hand-drawn map is detailed but not quite a work of artistic wonder that sparks the imagination, and (ii) my skills with Inkarnate leave even more to be desired. I haven't chosen an artist yet, so it will still be a bit longer before it's available to publish on RR, but consider it something officially in the works as of today. Stay tuned for further updates. Thank you, again!
If you would like to see official commissioned artwork of any particular scene or character, let me know in the comment section! I would love to bring some more of ACOL alive if there is a demand for it.
Bonus Chapters.
While A Crucible of Light is on Rising Stars, I will be releasing bonus chapters. If the story continues to receive support and climb the ranks of the Rising Stars list, I will release an additional at approximately 5:00pm ET on the day it reaches one of our goal benchmarks (#40, #30, #20, #10). If the story does even better, I will think of additional ways to give back to the readers (and am open to ideas and suggestions).
So, if you would like to unlock those bonus chapters, please consider sharing the story, leaving a rating/review, dropping a comment after completing a chapter, and following/favoriting (if you haven't already).
Anyways, I'll get back to writing now...!
Cheers,
RM
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