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@@Talking_Story it has truly been awesome. Grateful you got my ass to pick up the phone and record

@@Chance.Dillon so happy you did!

@@radudumanovschi3387 Nope not at all

@@radudumanovschi3387 and I would argue that they know now !

@@noname3609 bigggg deadhouse gates guy. The ending just totally landed for me

@@TomOrange yeah! Ashes doesn’t get a lotta love. But to me to me it truly is a standout as to where Hadrian’s character ends up going. stoked to hear your thoughts when the time comes

@@iSamwise who me?!? Did I?! I had no idea… no idea at all

@@momo_genX yes! A copy editor will run through it and then I have 2 proofreaders qued up as well. Very excited!

@Chance.Dillon I would be curious at the end to how much this all cost you. My manuscript is only 80k. Three thousand dollars for everything for this project. I am pretty stubborn. My book cover is probably considered a bad one, but it stands out. It reminds me of a standard 1970's or 80's cover, kind of a beat looking cover. It cost me 300 dollars and I'm sure I could have gotten a more contemporary cover for less on Reedsy, but I don't like that stuff. Sometimes standing out from the rest can be good or bad. I am stuck with it now, anyways. Feeling bad about no Kindle Unlimited hits, where I had 500 page reads from a short story a year and a half ago with a Generic Kindle cover creator cover. A week after the news broke about Kindle Covers to be associated with AI, and the KU reads stopped. I was hoping to have a repeat of that, with a better Cover, Blurb, and everything. Nope. I never really expected this novel to do anything. I was excited by my editor's feedback. I am just waiting for it to get into some reviewer's hands. I can't wait to see what they think. What's impeding that is Ingram Spark. 23 days and still not printed yet. We will see how wise the decision was for me to debut the novel solely as a Hardback for a few months. Probably a decision about as dumb as me enjoying old-school cover styles.

@@AReadersJourney okay-That’s what I love to hear. I’m already sold 😂😂 honestly it’s been calling me back

@@Chance.Dillon I think it's in the book, where Tiro says it, but watching a naturally timid man rise to put his life on the line and defend what is right, time and time again, and defend the Roman republic, is like the most heroic frickin thing I've ever read

@@N.A.Summur yes N.A. Thanks for the feedback-what you gave helped a ton.

@ I’m glad to hear it has helped! I just read Chapter 1 of “The Before” before going to bed and I loved it. Excited to continue and let you know what I think! Thanks for sending it!

@ of course. I’m grateful you’re taking time at all

@@Chance.Dillon of course, dude!

@@TedReadInstead thanks Ted!! And yes-Hobb is such a delight to read

@@PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy thank you so much! Edan is calling my name back. A lure I wasn’t quite expecting either! Good luck in the new year-hope to chat more soon

@@ZOMGfantasy imperium was a true shocker. And has such beautifully polished prose. And of course! Riven Earth really kept popping up for me when thinking about top reads this past year

@@ralphjenkins1507 and to you as well!!! Thanks for always coming through

@@NerdLevelRising yessss dude. Stoked to get to work here

@@mediumsuspect there’s a chance!

@@AReadersJourney thanks Chris! Stoked to hear any of your thoughts! And no rush of course-grateful you’d take the time ay all

@@esmayrosalyne thanks Esmay!!! I’ll be sure to reach back out to you in email soon!

@@Chance.Dillon looking forward to it!!

@@dauryramirez thank you so much for coming to hang out!

@@TomOrange yesssssir! I’ll reach out to send you a copy of your own of course. Before then, we’ll be having our conviction arch discussion and potentially a swan song one?

@@Chance.Dillon thanks man! and absolutely on the discussions

@@SpacedOutReads 😂😂 that’s why I’m so bad at catching up on reads… so much to read and so littttttle time. You have been a great influence of driving my interest of what to check out-and I’m glad I found your channel when I did

@themangaculture I’ve pulled heavy inspiration from the world of Hidetaka Miyazaki and George RR Martin’s Lore of Elden Ring and Steven Erikson’s Malazan-hoping to deliver on the massive scope of an ever delivering world of story. Tad Williams Memory, Sorrow, and Thorne and Joe Abercrombie’s First Law Universe were also huge influences on my writing. The cinema version of Lord of the Rings and Dune of course also played huge roles of what was playing in my head as I was writing.

@@Chance.Dillon Malazan and Dune. That sounds sick. Really proud of you, I'm planning to write a novel soon as well

@themangaculture thank you! Yes-I’m excited to hear more about yours then! Whatever you choose to offer

​@@Chance.Dillon Obviously, I can't tell you everything as the story is consantly evolving as I shape it, but I'll tell you some things that won't change. Firstly, you have a similar taste as my favourite pieces of fiction are Sun Eater and Berserk (a few others as well) which I know you have. The setting is an atmospheric, fast paced and philosophical dark fantasy. The overall plot will be similar to The Stand by Stephen King, as everything will start normal, until everything collapses into an apocolypse. The difference between mine and The Stand is that the reason for the apocolypse is not the flu, it is caused by society's choices that cause a spiral into chaos. In other words, the reason for society's collapse is themselves. The main is trying to find himself in the process. It will have heavy influence from many manga, and some novels, movies and shows such as (apart from The Stand, Sun Eater and Berserk) the Stormlight Archive, Bleach, Tolkien, Vinland Saga, Star Wars, Tokyo ghoul, Fullmetal Alchemist, 20th Century Boys and dozens of other ones I can't think of right now. Sorry for the long comment

@ don’t apologize at all! Thank you for sharing all that you did! I hope you share it with the world and we get to experience it

@@N.A.Summur yesssssir! If you’re ever interested-shoot me a message on Instagram with your email. I can send you over some sample work

@ sounds awesome dude! I will do that!

@@TedReadInstead merry Christmas Ted! Thanks for always stopping by. It truly does mean a lot.

@@iSamwise heck yes Sam! At your leisure of course. I’m stoked to hear your thoughts. Maybe we can get on a call in the new year sometime! I think it’d be great to just chat books

@@iSamwise I’m just terrible at setting live streams 😂😂

@@Chance.Dillon Yeah that sounds great! I’m sure we can get something set up!

@@Chance.Dillon now quick question here is the book called Mercy or Tears of the Fallen? (Sorry for the duplicate comments)

@@iSamwise you’re good! It’s Mercy (series name) book one is: Tears of the Fallen

@@i_shubhamrai me too! But things on the way-ready to immerse everybody into the world

@@momo_genX stoked for you! It could spike here in the near future. What’s the title?? I’ll shoot a search!

@@momo_genX and thank you for the wisdom!

@Chance.Dillon I am itching to tell people about the book, its title, etc, but I best keep quiet about it now. I have authored it under a pen name, because my name is associated with controversy surrounding some of my first works. Some of the literature I have written has been called hate speech, though Amazon doesn't allow hate speech to be published on their platform. It's an LGBT satire, and people are sensitive about crude and offensive jokes, and I make mad fun of everyone in that 90 minute read. Being a gay man who is conservative and concerned that some of the "woke" views are destroying the arts and free speech, I gravitated towards the political after being personally attacked. I am also not well-liked by some in our BookTube community for jokes, but the ones that I feel I have a lot in common with have taken me in. I appreciate your interest in my new book, but I want to give it a while before I talk about it, as I want to see what I some key readers think about it before I talk about it. In the meantime, you can check out my work for free, short stories and satires, under my real name. Only a click away on my avatar face-hole. I have followed you enough to know you have a good sense of humor. Iskandaria and you would geek out laughing at some of my work.

@ rogerrrr that! In the coming weeks I’ll have to remind myself to dig in a bit

@themangaculture wow-so stoked to here! There will be opportunities for early digital copies going out on substack come the spring! And a bunch of other stories in the world for you to get an itch scratched in that time!

@@slay.187 yesssssir! Slay-you’ve been an absolute pleasure along this journey. I hope the entirety of the book doesn’t disappoint and you’re here during the process. Just know I’m not gonna stop writing 😂 so even if it suck’s, they’re may be some other redeeming piece of trash down the line for you to pick up! But otherwise, I do really enjoy chatting books with you. Thank you for following along and doing it diligently

@ I HIGHLY doubt it’s gonna disappoint me in ANY way. That being said, never stop writing. Ever. Just keep on rockin!

@@esmayrosalyne ohhhh ya! I’m so behind. And thank you so much for the words Esmay! How’re you enjoying WaT??

@@Chance.Dillon having the best time so far, definitely living up to my expectations!!

@@esmayrosalyne okay that’s great to hear! I’m already hearing this ending is going to be amazing

@@RhysWritings yes! Thanks for stopping in to hang out. More in due time

@@SpacedOutReads okay fantastic. I want to know how the villain chapters are in the perspective of 🤔🤔🤔

@@someokiedude9549 yeah dude! Grateful you had me on for a convo. Hopefully we can have more

@@TomOrange ohhhhhhh ya. I think I can fit the rest of Clash in next month for me. So that’s quite a December:January. But I’m grinding away at the conviction arch for our discussion. The first was one of the more enjoyable experiences I’ve had on booktube

@@N.A.Summur yes sir! Of course. I think there’s too much good content I’m missing for those out there looking to get in on the community as a whole. Writers, readers and so on

@ there really are a lot of great people out there doing things!

@@ralphjenkins1507 thanks for coming to hang out again!

@@TedReadInstead of course Ted! Thanks for checking this one out. The time will come for that. For now-I want to get the story into as many hands as possible so it can open a whole new discussion in the space. I’m grateful you took the time to check this out.