In addition to working an exhausting (but enjoyable!) side-job, taking my family on various vacation adventures, and busily writing A Test of Honor’s sequel (The People’s Champion – coming fall 2015!), I have also been working on a new mailing list freebie.
I’ve written a little about how foolish I felt offering A Test of Honor for free in exchange for a mailing list sign up after I released the book for $2.99 on Amazon. I know that if I was a reader, and I bothered visiting an author’s site after enjoying one of their books and I discovered they were giving away the book I just dropped hard-earned cash purchasing, I would feel cheated. I can’t change the past (and again, if this happened to you, I am very sorry and it WILL NOT happen again!), but I can change what I give away in the future. That’s why I’m currently making a digital art companion featuring full color portraits of the major characters from A Test of Honor along with some loose sketches of these characters in action.
One more thing: this will be the first of many digital art companions which I plan to create for all three books in the Aidan’s War Trilogy. They’ll be available to the general public once the series is complete, individually and as part of a “digital deluxe edition,” but if you’re on the mailing list, you’ll get them all for free, months before they’re available anywhere else.
UPDATE: The Digital Art Companion has been folded into the new exclusive Companion Book to A Test of Honor, which you can get for free here.
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