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?

Post? Plague Notes

1.  Back at it!

2.  Obviously The Plague knocked my schedule back a bit (not that I'm very good at keeping them lately!) so everything I talked about last time, add a week or two.

3.  Assault on Dread Fortress Paine is getting closer and closer to being done.  The final edit is winding down, have the last couple scenes left to finish.  Then after that I have like 2k-4k of original writing to wrap up, cuz I'm weird and do stuff out of order for some reason.  I do it for almost every book actually.  Another good one I always seem to manage is writing the last chapter before writing the second to last chapter.  Using FM6 as an example I wrote all the Eureka stuff, then the Post Eureka stuff, and only THEN wrote the Geo Realm chapter.

4.  After said final edit is over, I'll do my Kindle edit.  Unless I make some HUGE mistake everything will be locked down before hand and it's mostly typo hunting, playing with paragraphs and with the FM books actually the first time I get to read them with both the timelines and figuring out where each one should flip back and forth.  After THAT we have the beta read and then release.

5.  So...March!

6.  Curse the Plague!  Without it, new Richard Raley writing would be in your hands by now!

7.  Richard Raley writing and not a King Henry book because there's actually no King Henry in this one...outside of T-Bone's imagination at least...

8.  Then we're on to the next one, cuz it never ends!  The Glassbreaker Goes Home.  Stolen from The Thin Man Goes Home.  Which is a movie series everyone should watch.

9.  Speaking of movies...I have Thor Ragnarok, Justice League, Coco, and Blade Runner 2049 all sitting unwatched, so I should get to that.  Also Altered Carbon.  Which is a book all of you should read.  In my top 50 for sure.

10.  Confession Time:  I've never seen the first Blade Runner!  Can you believe that?!?!?   Also haven't seen Shawshank Redemption...or the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.  I know...

11.  Here's hoping the next post is a release date!

Plague Notes

1.  Pre-Plague Asthma Weirdness.

2.  Nope, It's the Plague!  Begone allergy pills, hello Nitequil!

3.  Sneeze, cough, hack, sneeze, cough, hack.

4.  Plague, Yes, But Not as Plague-ish as Advertised...

5.  Feeling Better.

6.  One Good Day of Editing.

7.  Super Bowl!  Great Game.

8.  Wait...it can't be!

9.  Plague 2:  The Sequel.  Just Enough Plague to Be Annoying Edition.

10.  Nope, it's a Tide Ad.