FM 6.5 Discussion Thread

Last time you fans seemed to enjoy this, so I guess I'll put another one up this go around too.  Granted the book is smaller...but I'm sure you have some thoughts on the events that took place...especially, ya know, maybe the last few pages...

Spoilers...duh.

Assault on Dread Fortress Paine (FM6.5) is OUT!!!

Coverage:

Return of the Quick Self Made Covers!

Blurbage:

The Battle of Eureka is won! The Curator is vanquished, his Wilder army is shattered, and his apostles have fled for their lives.

But even in victory, the legacy of Obadiah Paine is not so easily washed away. His hidden lair yet remains, Dread Fortress Paine yet stands! Within it . . . none can be sure what monstrous acts are waiting to be uncovered or guess the number of Paine loyalists who linger.

It falls on the shoulders of ESLED Strike Alpha to answer these questions and to seize Paine's hideout for the Elemental Learning Council. Led by spectromancer Ramses Lamprey, joined by civilian observer Tyson Bonnie, and aided by Council fixer Eva Reti, failure is not an option.

This volume is a can't miss for Foul Mouth fans, acting as an action packed epilogue for "The Foul Mouth and the Pit of No Return" while priming many plot points for the next main volume and even those well beyond.

Dread Fortress Paine must fall!

Linkage:  Assault on Dread Fortress Paine by Richard Raley on Amazon Kindle

Price: $2.99

Kindle Select/Unlimited:  Of course.

Have fun reading, don't inhale too quickly or you'll get a tummy ache!

Pre FM6.5 Quick Notes

1.  So about 24 hours until I hit the button and then everything is in Amazon's hands.

2.  The beta readers have saved you from a little over 100 typos this go around.  I'm sure some remain.  Feel free to email me after release and I'll get to them eventually.

3.  Only slight change to the book is its about 500 words lighter, the cuts coming at the very beginning to make the first scene quicker.  That first scene also now ends on a bit of a mouth dropping moment that should make Tyson's anxieties and equivocations EXTRA unbearable :)

4.  Beta readers are liking the "final" fight quite a lot, so...yay!

5.  Other news, I'm having to come up with a whole new ultra class since FM7's school story deals with King Henry as a student-advisor.  Those poor children.  Of course if you read King Henry and the Three Little Trips then you know who two of them are and some of what will be going down.  Last school story, no more, yay!

6.  Big storm tonight :(

7.  Have 14 more WWE PVPS to catch up on before Wrestlemania.  Last year I went through 2011 to halfway through 2015, last couple months has been 2015 to 2018.  I'm hearing the entrance music in my sleep at this point.  And not the good ones either.  Like a week ago I has Carmella's entrance stuck in my head on a loop for like 48 hours.  It was horrible!

8.  You fans ready?

9.  Feels good to be publishing again!  Last year was rough.  Here's hoping I keep kicking some ass!

==Update==

10.  Button has been pressed.  As usual, it can take either 1 hour (like FM6) or 3 days (FM5 took about 24 hours if I remember right) for it to go through, so, start refreshing I guess?

11.  And now I'm going to go distract myself by blowing up rebel scum in Battlefront 2.  Which is only 20 bucks now and the progression system isn't evil any longer, so...it's kind of okay-ish.

Assault on Dread Fortress Paine is Done

Done.  Done.  Done.

Beta read in progress.

Ended up being 74k words long or about 200 pages.

So yeah, that's a fucking book!  How'd that happen?

Release window is March 23rd to March 26th.  Probably going to charge the same as Three Little Trips, which is $2.99.  As I've said before, there's no King Henry at all.  It's T-Bone and Eva's stories being told.  There are six?seven? new characters in the book.  Most of them belong to ESLED's Strike Alpha, including Captain Ramses Lamprey who is a spectromancer known as the Walking Flash-bang.  Some familiar faces will also very much pop up.  It probably has the most action-per-page of any book I've written.  At this point, if you read a Richard Raley novel then you know what you're getting:  lots of conversations between two to three people in a room somewhere!

Not this time.

For good and ill.  Lots of action.  The next one, not so much.  But this one, yes.  FM7?  We'll see ;P

Anything else?  Oh yeah.  I know I said you could skip FM5.5, but not a good idea this time around.  There's a LOT of setup for FM7 you won't want to miss.  And beyond FM7 even...

So...that's over.  Guess I'll take a couple days off and then dive into finishing the last half of The Glassbreaker Goes Home.  Or start FM7's school story.  The last one I'll ever have to write!  Yay!

Gush?  What's Gush?