Minute Mage book 1 is out! It's available in physical form, plus Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!
Thank you all for making this possible. I'm really hoping that writing can be my permanent full-time job, and if my Amazon launch does well, it can be!
Also, free chapters are on the way! To celebrate the Amazon launch of Minute Mage, I'll be publishing extra chapters depending on how well the novel does! Amazon ranks all books published on it, comparing how well they're doing by looking at things like how many sales they've had recently, their reviews, how many people with Kindle Unlimited have downloaded them, that sort of thing. Currently, at the time of me writing this, Minute Mage is ranked 30,000 on Amazon just from the preorders it's gotten. So, if we can get it to break into the top 5000, I'll upload a free extra chapter here for all of you! If we can get it into the top 2000, I'll upload another! If we reach the top 1000, another! And if we can get it into the top 500 on the store for any amount of time, I'll probably just post as many chapters as I can possibly write.
So, if you'd like some extra chapters of Minute Mage (or just to make me very happy), please---go to the Amazon page and buy the book, download it for free if you have Kindle Unlimited, or leave a review!
You can rate/review the book on Amazon without buying it, too! Since you've read it on RoyalRoad, it's completely allowed for you to go to the Amazon page and leave a review recommending the novel. Amazon does not require you to buy the book on their platform first. So that's a completely free way to support the launch in a massive way---all it costs is about five seconds for you to scroll down the Amazon page to the reviews section and click a star rating!
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With the official publication, I've made a ton of improvements to the story. A large number of wording and structure changes have been made, but I also did a lot of bigger stuff. Entire scenes and chapters have been rewritten, and some whole plotpoints have been added/removed. I've done a bunch of work rewriting character arcs, changing conversations and redoing fight scenes, patching up some plot holes, and overall doing everything I can to make the book much better than it originally was.
My philosophy with the changes was that the only untouchable elements were anything that would bleed into books 2 and beyond, because I wanted to ensure that readers could seamlessly move from the Amazon version to the RR chapters. But other than that, pretty much everything was subject to change. When I first started Minute Mage, I was very inexperienced with writing, and I've come a long way since then. So there was a lot to do. I bullied my publisher into giving me three separate professional editing passes with several editors, spent months on the revision process ensuring everything was as good as I could make it, and now it's finally here for you to see!
Also, as I mentioned before, there's an audiobook! And you know what that means! You get to hear my poor, poor audiobook narrator pronounce Demon names like:
•Xhag’duulinithar’obaba’iidook’naisantipoduun’torobaroxhixhonxhaxintep
•Quinmorada’qualticularoohdodonmi’asmomonomomonminmi’oohdoohdimyuumyuuquanquimi’jinndarrqyuqyakwuquoquanki’miminanmujardinmani’quokinwukanquokokanki
•Wortinwukaito’shizazukarwintowrochi’wrochiwrantishokorinkinamlitep’voxhizuwranjulimono’zaxaruluionomran’walaxivintoproligunt’kuntoiwar’enuminonoplaxxiuntepinarntinum’wastiunintiuninpronviaxtrunwia
and much much more! (Brian Wiggins, if you're reading this, I deeply apologize for making you learn all of them.)
Anyway, all that is to say, I really tried to make this release the best it can be, so if you'd like to check it out here, please do so!