No Dragons Press

Episode 3: “Addie Sneaks a Smoke”

Show Notes for Episode Three

These are the show notes from No Dragons Press: Episode Three: Addie Sneaks a Smoke. (Chapter 3 begins right around 3:00.)

Hey guys, I hope you’re all having a great  weekend. I just got back from a music festival, and I have already had more than enough weekend for one weekend – as you can probably tell by the sound of my voice!

Luckily I prerecorded the chapter earlier this week, so it should just be the intro that sounds a little rough; thanks for bearing with me. (I did a lot of yelling.)

A crisp beverage helps with the yelling. Well, it helps, anyway.

Weekly Illustrated Fiction

I wanted to talk a little bit more about the Weekly Illustrated Fiction series we’re doing at Ascraeus Press. I know I mentioned it before, but I wanted to clarify a few things about the structure of this thing and how it relates to the podcast and No Dragons Press as a whole.

I think we’re all clear now that No Dragons Press is the title of my High Fantasy series, and Ascraeus Press is the publisher, so that’s awesome. So what I’m doing is reading one chapter per week from my upcoming novel, which is Book 1 in a planned five-book series. Don’t worry, I know we’ve seen a lot just one single building, but things definitely change soon for Addie, so, you know, don’t get too comfortable in the No Dragons Press building.)

So, the Weekly Illustrated Fiction series at Ascraeus Press is really exciting in general because we’re committed to giving you one never-before-seen chapter per week,  for free, before I publish my book, but it’s also really exciting to me personally because I get to see what this world I have created looks like to someone else, which is a ton of fun. My illustrator Emily [Ruf] is amazing and totally gets what I’m doing, and the process of someone else reaching into my brain and pulling something out and then showing it to me is so cool.

We also have really fun work meetings, generally over beer. In a recent meeting about the Weekly Illustrated Fiction artwork, we were talking about holding back from doing characters in any sort of detail, at least for a while, and kind of leave it to the reader to decide what people look like, but we knew we had to see Addie before too long, even just a little bit, and I’m really happy with the artwork.

Awesome New Artwork from Emily Ruf

I’ll add a link in the show notes so you can check it out, but in case you can’t check it out right now, I’ll just briefly explain Emily‘s artwork this week: Addie’s got her hood pulled over her eyes and this absolutely magical cloud of smoke is coming out of her face, and it looks amazing. You can check it out at ascraeuspress.com and I’ll add a link to the show notes at nodragonspress.com/podcast.

Well, that’s it from me this week! Stay out of trouble, you guys, I’ll try to do the same, and I hope you enjoy Chapter Three: Addie Sneaks a Smoke.

Hey guys, thanks for listening. Make sure to check out nodragonspress.com/podcast for a link to the Weekly Illustrated Fiction thing, and also the podcast episode one, and you can listen to all the archived episodes there, too.

Thanks for sticking with me, you guys—take care!