Seriphyn Knight - Cover Releases & Versions

Releasing covers early for my motivation towards the next episode in the Seriphyn Knight Chronicle's saga.

The Zaldizko paperback is planned for the version that would be delivered out of Draft2Digital distribution platform.

Magism and Animachines is the next episode for release in the Fourth Zaldizko book, which is due. I've yet to determine a target release date for this one.

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Slight Revision of New Decade Plans

Based on the less than stellar reception of IKD at Tapread, I've made a snap decision and revision to my New Decade Plan.

I've decided to dedicate Original Music Makes (OMM) series to paperback releases via Amazon.

I've removed this series from all Read-as-Write story sharing sites (e.g. Webnovel, Tapread, Wattpad...).

This series will be revamped as a proper light novel, as originally intended.  I'll also eventually do the same for Seriphyn Knight.

As it's clear that the RaW readerbase isn't working for them. They fair better as traditional paperback where the story  is completed.

These books will be according to the raito noberu standard.

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Seriphyn Knight Chronicles New Covers

I've redesign covers for the Seriphyn Knight Chronicles into a consistent series brand.  A  new bred Historical Fantasy with Famine leading us on a Four Horseman epic journey. This series is free to read at Webnovel, Tapreads and Wattpad

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The Fourth Zaldizko - Read Now!

☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ Zaldizko Rides On ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ

The Fourth Zaldizko

https://www.wattpad.com/story/177380107-the-fourth-zaldizko

The hunt is on to find the last of the Gat Shiem Brothers. Famine learns that Pesti is not in Hell's Labyrinth, but in an urisen house somewhere hidden in Doll's Lane, which is the red light scene of Apocalypse's Second District.

Strange and terrible things are happening to the people of this district with blame pointed at the Evadale Knight Order due to the mishaps of Hell's Labyrinth. People are frightened about a baleful rider in grey stalking the streets at the dead of night on a ghost horse with his bow and arrow ready to claim an unwitting soul.

Famine is not deterred, focused on saving his baby brother. In order to do so, he must experience the darkest depths of the human ego. This time, he must face it on his own with the Baleful Rider passing judgement on his soul.

This is volume #2 of the Seriphyn Knight Chronicles.

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Rating: Mature  Contains BL/LGBT themes.

Updated Simultaneously to Webnovel, Tapreads and Wattpad

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My Vision 2022 - Let's Push the Future Forward

"Let's push the future forward, one notch at a time."

This is my story 2022 vision, where I aim to produce a catalogue of fantasy and historical fiction stories to promote this vision.

In my stories, I'll continue to promote diversity and inclusiveness the best I can. 

I'm not a perfect human, so I'm going to slip up and likely piss someone off.  I do my best to be thoughtful and consider impacts.  There's only so much consideration one brain can manage.  If I do slip up, I will fess up to my sins and apologize.

On to the vision.

The stories to line up this catalogue are as follows:

• Zaldizko
• The Fourth Zaldizko
• Reborn Legacy
• Dragonieth
• To My Sunflower

These will be my active stories, which I am to complete and self publish by 2022.


Why Zaldizko, The Fourth Zaldizko and Reborn Legacy?
These three belong to the Seriphyn Knight Chronicles series. In this series, I promote the inclusiveness of sign language as another form of communication. Also, being with a limitation (e.g mute or deaf) does not make a person incapable.

In Zaldizko, Colin Treinaton communicates with sign language as he has no voice.  He is recognized as a highly capable character and skilled magician/magis.  If it wasn't for his help, the protagonist (Famine) would be spider fodder.

Why Dragonieth?
This my dragon-ish fantasy story containing an ensemble of main characters. It includes LGBTQ themes since one of the main characters is gay and there are a handful of support characters in same-sex relationships or in love with people of the same sex.

Why To My Sunflower?
An ensemble perspective from two key characters who are both connected in a same-sex relationship. This story also highlights less abled returned soldiers and aims to draw out the innovation and resilience of the people during the end of WW2 and Pacific War.

It's a risk. Since I'm promoting more of a unity between nations rather than the separation that was the war.  I know I'm going to get slammed and criticized heavily for it. I understand and respect this.


My Catalog Vision 2022
I will pour all my dedication to completing on these stories.

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Seriphyn Knight Chronicles is Now

I will finish what I started by 2020.  I created this series back in 2006, lingering in and out of cache servers for many years. No more will it remain a shadow or figment of imagination. I'm making this series a real deal. Here is how.

~ ★ Zaldizko★  ~

The first book of the series, which I released on the 15th of February this year.

Paid Channels
It has been gaining slow, but steady momentum in paid channels.  Kobo and iTunes continue to be my high revenue channels, whilst Amazon barely kicks off.  Google Play was a surprise new player, which saw to some nice purchases.  I'll continue to only use Amazon for hardback sales and skip their kindle avenue in the coming book campaigns.

Free Read Channels
Webnovel, has surprised me the most with the high support from readers over there.  The Quest-a-Views campaign I have running continues to boost viewing interest.  The almost contract signing was a nice form of reassurance that this story has high potential in the Asian markets.

Wattpad performance is a striking contrast to Webnovel, and not for readership potential. Its experimental read, discovery and ranking system impacted on this story's performance. If it wasn't for recent user group competition campaigns, this story would not be discoverable at all at this site.  I will continue to monitor this site's potential.

It did receive 3rd/4th placing in a community user group awards for the Action/Adventure category this year, saving the story from being dead fish in Wattpad waters.

~ ★ Reborn Legacy★  ~

The story that started it all.  It's only available to read at Webnovel, whilst it's in an in progress state.  I aim to release this story by the end of the year via Kobo, iTunes and Google Play, continuing to use Amazon only for hardback sales.

Its performing slow with little pickup, which makes me think that strong female protagonists aren't as popular as effeminate gay male leads with sass and show of respect towards others.

~ ★ The Fourth Zaldizko★  ~

Cover courtesy of Chryiss.  I wanted something different and more suited to the readership market of Webnovel.  Aside from the title being a tad dark,  I love it.  It really matches the mood of the book with Famine coming out of the darkness.  Brilliant.

This one is also only available to read at Webnovel whilst it's being written at the same time as Reborn.  

The reception for this book is picking up pace with some supportive comments and interest from readers over there. 

Webnovel has been a fantastic story sharing site in general.

Reborn and Fourth are due for paperback releases at the end of this year.  Fourth I had earmarked for earlier towards August/September.

After These?

After these three are four more stories: one between 4th Zaldizko and Reborn, then two following Reborn.  This will complete the Seriphyn Knight Chronicles series and a decade long "must do" saga.

I will have finally finished what I had started.

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Zaldizko Reviews ☆ Happy Cat

Here are some of the verbatim Zaldizko has received. Dare original and see what the talk is all about.

Some glowing reviews from awesome readers and writers at Webnovel.com.  I'm hoping that the rating will eventually show on the sites rating list. It only needs two more to flick the sites switch.

https://www.webnovel.com/book/12594753605041105/Zaldizko-%5BBL%5D

It also received a surprise 5 Star rating at Royal Road that is boosting Google's book impression.
I swear it wasn't by me. 

At Wattpad, some verbatim left as comments to posts. Below is what some have said about the Prologue.

I'm a very happy cat with all the story love I'm receiving for this one.  Zaldizko holds a special place in my heart since it has taken me so long to write and finish the story.

The story can be read for free or cheap via the following links:

• https://tinyurl.com/wattpadzaldi  
• https://tinyurl.com/webnovzaldi   
• https://tinyurl.com/zaldiKobo  
• https://tinyurl.com/ZaldiTunes 
• https://tinyurl.com/zaldiamazon 
• https://tinyurl.com/zaldigoogle 

Read original.  Dare original today!

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♥ ﾟ*｡ Happy Zaldizko Day ﾟ*｡♥

Zaldizko goes live on sale tomorrow with all prices set and ready.  

I have had some last minute corrections applied that will be updated within 72 hours. I'm not expecting a rush of sales, so all good.

There is so much history that backs this story, dating all the way to 2006.  I began the Seriphyn Knight journey as a way to cope with the stresses and boredom of life.  It eventuated into a series. The highlight for this story is the encouraging comment I had received from the late Louise Cooper in her forums. Her words continue to motivate my writing. 

I do have to apologise for taking 13 years to complete an actual volume of the series.  I could have revised and finished off Neven's portion as I had originally intended with the reborn reboot. Given the time lapse, I felt it was better to go way back to the beginning where the story was a risk, challenge and niche.  

A gay protagonist is a risk to write even in this day and age.  There have been one or two times where I've been called out to tone down the gay/romantic scenes.  I thank Webnovel for sensitive-beta readers who has helped me form a version that most people can sit through.

The other risk is being LGBTQ, the readership remains female.  I haven't drawn in a lot of male interest despite being an action-adventure story.  As such, I'm still trying to adjust the marketing mix to suit. I'll get there eventually. 

I'm happy with the product I've put on shelves, knowing I've given my all and the best of my current capabilities. 

The next challenge is writing on book two. Sequels are always harder since you're expected to given more depth and challenging situations to the characters.  

Better get to it.

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2019 Blast Off From Being AWOL

☆* It's 2019 For Story Action! *☆

Where have I been for 2018?  Well, I've been:

• here -> https://www.wattpad.com/user/VeronicaPurcell3 
• here-> https://www.wattpadwriters.com/u/VeronicaPurcell3 and now 
• here -> https://www.webnovel.com/profile/4303350478

This year, I'm back to Blogger, providing progress updates to my proper book release for the Seriphyn Knight Chronicles. After 13 Years!  Seriphyn Knight is finally going paperback.

It's all thanks to the support I've received from wonderful Wattpad readers and fellow writers.  Now with WebNovel.com picking up the interest, I feel 2019 is the right time for this story series.

Zaldizko will be ready for paperback on the 15th February 2019.  Along with a for sale ebook release. It will continue to be read for free at WebNovel.com and Wattpad.

Read the story here via Wattpad's embed widget!



I'm back and feeling great about this story this time around.

Cheers.

Veronica

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Hitting Strides With Zaldizko

I'm almost at the halfway mark with my story and likely to hit my end of year target and intended go to market of February 2019 for paperback and specially formatted ebook versions.

It has taken a short 12 years to reach this point and I'm, so far, happy with the results.

The story is available for reading at Wattpad now.

Note: the cover at Wattpad will be the cover for the paperback and special ebook versions as well.

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Zaldizko Progress

I'm impressed with myself.  Why? Because I'm finally making progress with my new Seriphyn Knight draft.  If I continue at the pace I'm at, I'll expect to have the first volume of the series released around July.

I've simplified the name to Zaldizko and have described in detail the terminology of things that would be important for the revised version of In Anwar's Care.

About Zaldiko

The story is told through a first person perspective as per In Anwar's Care. The protagonist is Famine who loves his three brothers the most.

Famine's brothers are Death and War and his youngest is called Pesti, which is short for Pestilence.  It seems that their names were taken from an ancient transcript of a religious book called The Sacred Word. However, Famine never questions why he was given such a named nor does he care about any greater purpose.

The only things that matter to him are his brothers, family and his temple home.

One day, his home is invaded and annihilated.  He and his brothers are abducted by frightful creatures in grey suits and taken to a city called Apocalypse.  There, Famine finds himself in the care of a military group called the Wisteria Gardens Squad (WGS), which is lead by a cocky bastard called Trix.

He was separated from his brothers upon arrival to the city and is frantic to find out where they are.
Feeling the loss of his home and determined to reunite with his brothers. He eventually gains the support of the WGS to help with his search.  He finds his brother War first and is relieved to see the guy is still the same.  Will it be the same case for his other two brothers?

War tells Famine that he saw a change in the other two but he refuses to tell him what the change is or where they are.  Famine can sense War's fear. What has happened to his two other brothers?  Why are they in apocalypse to begin with?  Why was his home destroyed?

Talks about a process called Breaking the Hana stirs some weird behavior in the people around Famine and War.


Well that pretty much is the gist of the story so far.  I'm hoping that it'll place a lot of perspective to book two once I've finished the revisions.   For now, focus is getting book one on the shelves and then finishing of volume two of Original Music Makes.

Better get back to it :)

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Restart Resolutions: Zaldiko Aldeketa

Phew!  I've had one hell of a year, which I'd sum up as a tiredness borderline depression. I'm far from achieving my writing goals.

That's okay.  I'm now able to restart the challenge again.  So I commence with volume one of the Seriphyn Knight Chronicles.

Zaldiko Aldeketa

This volume outlines the demise of four brothers who were kidnapped from an old world temple by a despot organisation known as the Illuminate, and imprisoned within a fortress city called Apocalypse.

The organisation believe Seriphyn and his brothers are the four Zaldiko Aldeketa who have the power to bring the end of the world as described in the Melchizedek Prophesies.

As you can guess, this story is adapted from the biblical recount of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with Seriphyn personifying Famine.

Unfortunately, this means it will be a while before the next release of the Original Music Makes series as I'm keen to ensure this book is finished and published in the new year.

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Comment by: Louise Cooper via her Message Board

Hello again, Khylan,

Sorry it's taken so long, but I've just - at last! - had the chance to go on to your blog site and read the Seriphyn Knight chronicles. I'm VERY impressed - you've got a natural writing talent; relaxed and flowing style, good dialogue, well-rounded characters, and I found the unfolding story gripping. I agree with Lisa's comments about seriously considering putting it into book form with an eye to publication. Yes, it is a circus, and rejections are depressing; but every writer has to grit their teeth and go through it. To put things in perspective, Ian Fleming had something like 100 rejections before the first James Bond book was accepted and published. Just imagine if he'd lost heart and given up... :)

Thanks for letting me know about it, and good luck!

Very best,

Louise

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