Hello there everyone!
We’ve gone nearly half a year without an informed blog talking about what our plans are, and I thought we needed to remedy that today. Between writing, planning updates, working on side projects and personal enrichment, you’d think that there wouldn’t be much time to talk, but oh, you’d be wrong!
Let me address just a couple of the things that are going on in Tellest.
Continuing to Evolve
Once again, we’re constantly switching up our presentation. Recently, Paul Davies spruced up our header, and Kevin Gallagher gave us a video that much better demonstrates our values. Now that we have higher quality art constantly on display, it makes sense to have a more beautiful look for ourselves.
We’re still going to make tweaks and adjustments, especially as the new book covers continue to roll in. When we have The Enemy Within, As Darkness Falls and The Fall spruced up with new covers, we’re going to make a new content trailer that will help get the word out about Tellest somewhat.
And of course, we’re going to continue to invest in great art that demonstrates crucial environments, characters and races of Tellest. That’s what we’ve found to have made one of the biggest impacts this year, and we don’t want to stop doing that, even if we have to slow down.
Tales of Tellest ,The Child of the Stars Trilogy and Beyond!
The Tales of Tellest is nearing its end – at least for the first volume.
We’re going to continue putting work into the Child of the Stars trilogy, so that it can be the best fantasy series ever. We want the quality of The Bindings of Fate to be on par with the new stories. The Tales of Tellest is a great entry point for the universe, but we want Kaos’ first adventure to be just as alluring.
While we work on the rewrites for Bindings, we’re going to work on new Tales of Tellest stories on the side. The novellas are a great way to keep interest in the world at a fair pace, but we have other stories that we want to tell as well.
The Tales of Tellest: Volume One stories that we’ve told had a lot to do with characters we’ve had some familiarity with. The next group of stories is going to focus on new characters instead. In the meantime, we’re also going to try and take a few steps back and see some prequel material for Kaos and Mathias. Our goal is to make sure that you always have something to read, with a minimal amount of time between stories. Whereas this first run for the Tales of Tellest has been relatively non-stop, we’re going to have larger gaps for our next run.
Encyclopedia
What we’ve decided to do is consider every big flow of encyclopedia entries a season. We had the initial 25 entries that we released, and then we moved into another 50 items, which we are considering season one. Now, season one is coming to a close, and we’re going to take some time off until Season Two begins. What we’ll do in the meantime is freshen up some older encyclopedia entries with new pictures and links so that it feels like a wiki.
In the future, when we have more authors working on stories concurrently, these encyclopedia entries may have smaller gaps, but for now, the quality cannot be undermined by the quantity, so we hope you understand.
Heart of the Forest
We’ve got one more bit of news that reflects our need to take time into consideration. Heart of the Forest, the game that will focus on Steel Tip, is being put somewhat on hold. This is because the main part of development has transitioned over to programming, which is a very expensive part of the plan. We’d need about $2000 before we could have a very basic demo in place. Unfortunately, with a wedding coming up, I can’t be throwing my money into this project as much as I want.
That said, you never know what could happen. The books could start selling three hundred copies a month like they did back in 2011. With what equates to another paycheck each month, I could probably bring Heart of the Forest back into the forefront again. For now, it’s just taking a much needed reprieve while we focus on the books that have become so important.
Besides those things, we’ve been keeping our nose to the grindstone. The Fall is coming along nicely, as are some of our short stories, and you’ll have more to look forward to in the weeks to come. We’re nearing the end of our banner year for Tellest, and I have you to thank for it. You’ve been incredible, and I hope that these books are a well earned reward!
Michael DeAngelo
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