Dylan Madeley

A side profile of a stocky and pensive nobleman. He is wearing a yellowish gambeson under brown lamellar armour. With both hands he holds a sword by its grip and hilt, the blade pointing down. A border woven from wheat and thorny stemmed flowers is meant to be reminiscent of an illuminated manuscript. Stylized text near the bottom reads The Fate of Lenn. Below the title text, in smaller font, the author name reads Dylan Madeley.

On a rich black background, a longsword stands on its point in front of a cluster of wheat. Title text at the top reads The Redemption of Jarek. Author name at the bottom reads Dylan Madeley.

"Our loyalty to each other over the throne is our shared crime, the only difference being that I have been forced to prove it."

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Bought some pre-cut/chunked chicken as a good finishing touch to what's otherwise a three bean chili, and made sure to buy the sourest apple I could find while I was in the store. I would have gone straight for a sourer apple if there were one. Malic acid is a must. Not for the chili, but by itself.

Today involved an unexpected supermarket trip earlier on than I would normally do it, because it's time to brew up a slow cooker chili batch, and I thought the ingredients in the cupboard looked scant compared with the amount of tomato sauce I had purchased as a base.

Anyway, she had more chemistry with Chandra in one and a half books of the original trilogy than the hero did before a good way into the third. She might have earned her character name's literary association to the smallest degree when I never required her to.

People immediately clue in to the fact that I eschew the character name struggle today by opening Behind the Name and letting my gut instinct decide, based loosely on a schema of where certain IRL European cultures' names would fit in my entirely fictional world. You're fine with that or you're not.

The kind of reader who questioned why it had to be that name in 2015 will do so upon re-release and probably won't stop there. The kind of reader who didn't bat an eye about it in 2015, I wouldn't take seriously if they suddenly had a problem with it now.

After briefly wondering whether a pop star's choice of literary name use in a song would force me to change one in my rewrite of a 2008-conceived, 2015-released project, I've realized that's absurd and I will stand pat.

A side profile of a stocky and pensive nobleman. He is wearing a yellowish gambeson under brown lamellar armour. With both hands he holds a sword by its grip and hilt, the blade pointing down. A border woven from wheat and thorny stemmed flowers is meant to be reminiscent of an illuminated manuscript. Stylized text near the bottom reads The Fate of Lenn. Below the title text, in smaller font, the author name reads Dylan Madeley.

On a rich black background, a longsword stands on its point in front of a cluster of wheat. Title text at the top reads The Redemption of Jarek. Author name at the bottom reads Dylan Madeley.

"Bare your knuckles then, and we'll waste no more time. We fight until one of us can't."

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Available until All Souls' Night.

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Stop payment processors from censoring games!

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“Why isn’t your fictional book where we get the cathartic release of just beating the bad guy not a well composed social structure thesis with a solution to our ills fiction-writer”

Is one of my least favorite takes

A side profile of a stocky and pensive nobleman. He is wearing a yellowish gambeson under brown lamellar armour. With both hands he holds a sword by its grip and hilt, the blade pointing down. A border woven from wheat and thorny stemmed flowers is meant to be reminiscent of an illuminated manuscript. Stylized text near the bottom reads The Fate of Lenn. Below the title text, in smaller font, the author name reads Dylan Madeley.

On a rich black background, a longsword stands on its point in front of a cluster of wheat. Title text at the top reads The Redemption of Jarek. Author name at the bottom reads Dylan Madeley.

Lenn and Jarek may feel as different from one another as their respective book covers, but they are more alike than they will admit.

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Available until All Souls' Night.

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Mothra 😀

Throughout history, each iteration of fascism came with its own particularities. Political theorist R. Griffin posits that the one thing they have in common is palingenetic ultranationalism. (Picture : Mussolini giving a speech) Palingenetic ("born again in ancient greek) ultranationalism is a far right narrative that frames the nation as decadent, as having lost its way, as being betrayed by dark elites. To save it, it needs to be destroyed, then reborn. (Picture: Trump giving a speech in front of a MAGA flag) with that goal in mind, an authoritarian power with divisive rhetoric channelsbthe population's anger towards a scapegoat demonized outgroup: migrants, religion, sexual and gender minorities... (picture : three masked ICE agents are handling someone.) Fascism is like a chameleon : it constantly adapts to eras and cultures. It is vital to learn to identify it and call it out. (Picture: a chameleon)

"What is fascism?"

Pricing is such a weird game, as alien to me as marketing. I have held prices modest to attract readers and reviewers, and 10 years of experience say that this has been an insignificant draw. On advice I will bump prices up to a more confident level, but I'll be amazed if it helps.

As I'm strongly considering more appropriate ebook pricing (given cover art costs etc.) you might not see a deal like this again for a while. Who knows?

Last day of buffer posts with this messaging; thinking of changing it up 3 days at a time for the remainder of the month. This leads me to reread chapters for pull quotes which can be a fun time.

A side profile of a stocky and pensive nobleman. He is wearing a yellowish gambeson under brown lamellar armour. With both hands he holds a sword by its grip and hilt, the blade pointing down. A border woven from wheat and thorny stemmed flowers is meant to be reminiscent of an illuminated manuscript. Stylized text near the bottom reads The Fate of Lenn. Below the title text, in smaller font, the author name reads Dylan Madeley.

On a rich black background, a longsword stands on its point in front of a cluster of wheat. Title text at the top reads The Redemption of Jarek. Author name at the bottom reads Dylan Madeley.

Delve into a two-fer of social upheavals, love, tragedy, liberation, and timeless messages of hospitality and rising to the occasion.

"Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle.

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Available until All Souls' Night.

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Somewhat regretting uninstalling my standalone AC unit so soon, it's too difficult to put back in to justify the effort for a week. Not exactly "clothes soaked through with sweat like I'm working overtime in an illicit distillery", but uncomfortable.

Fair; nothing new happening here, either. Just getting through work, have been a bit off my editing schedule too.

A side profile of a stocky and pensive nobleman. He is wearing a yellowish gambeson under brown lamellar armour. With both hands he holds a sword by its grip and hilt, the blade pointing down. A border woven from wheat and thorny stemmed flowers is meant to be reminiscent of an illuminated manuscript. Stylized text near the bottom reads The Fate of Lenn. Below the title text, in smaller font, the author name reads Dylan Madeley.

On a rich black background, a longsword stands on its point in front of a cluster of wheat. Title text at the top reads The Redemption of Jarek. Author name at the bottom reads Dylan Madeley.

Lenn and Jarek may feel as different from one another as their respective book covers, but they are more alike than they will admit.

"Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle.

itch.io/s/161264/fat...

Available until All Souls' Night.

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #fantasy

If you haven't been diagnosed with ADHD, autism, EDS, or some autoimmune wonkiness, maybe double-check that. You're on Bluesky, after all. It's easier to figure out strategies at 30 than at 40. (Also, if you "don't have trouble with schedules" because you have an elaborate system, tell your doctor.)

A side profile of a stocky and pensive nobleman. He is wearing a yellowish gambeson under brown lamellar armour. With both hands he holds a sword by its grip and hilt, the blade pointing down. A border woven from wheat and thorny stemmed flowers is meant to be reminiscent of an illuminated manuscript. Stylized text near the bottom reads The Fate of Lenn. Below the title text, in smaller font, the author name reads Dylan Madeley.

On a rich black background, a longsword stands on its point in front of a cluster of wheat. Title text at the top reads The Redemption of Jarek. Author name at the bottom reads Dylan Madeley.

Delve into a two-fer of social upheavals, love, tragedy, liberation, and timeless messages of hospitality and rising to the occasion.

"Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle.

itch.io/s/161264/fat...

Available until All Souls' Night.

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #fantasy

A side profile of a stocky and pensive nobleman. He is wearing a yellowish gambeson under brown lamellar armour. With both hands he holds a sword by its grip and hilt, the blade pointing down. A border woven from wheat and thorny stemmed flowers is meant to be reminiscent of an illuminated manuscript. Stylized text near the bottom reads The Fate of Lenn. Below the title text, in smaller font, the author name reads Dylan Madeley.

On a rich black background, a longsword stands on its point in front of a cluster of wheat. Title text at the top reads The Redemption of Jarek. Author name at the bottom reads Dylan Madeley.

Lenn and Jarek may feel as different from one another as their respective book covers, but they are more alike than they will admit.

"Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle.

itch.io/s/161264/fat...

Available until All Souls' Night.

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #fantasy

Good platelets donation today. No beeps from the machine, just a smooth procedure. Also avoided most of the baseball fan traffic on the GO due to time of day, so I had a seat to and from home.

A side profile of a stocky and pensive nobleman. He is wearing a yellowish gambeson under brown lamellar armour. With both hands he holds a sword by its grip and hilt, the blade pointing down. A border woven from wheat and thorny stemmed flowers is meant to be reminiscent of an illuminated manuscript. Stylized text near the bottom reads The Fate of Lenn. Below the title text, in smaller font, the author name reads Dylan Madeley.

On a rich black background, a longsword stands on its point in front of a cluster of wheat. Title text at the top reads The Redemption of Jarek. Author name at the bottom reads Dylan Madeley.

Lenn and Jarek may feel as different from one another as their respective book covers, but they are more alike than they will admit.

"Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle.

itch.io/s/161264/fat...

Available until All Souls' Night.

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #fantasy

This is why the Black Panthers' social programs had the motto "survival pending revolution." Because if you don't build up an alternative way to keep people in the most precarious situations alive and thriving, then who is your revolution for?

I realize that I probably wasn't the one bringing most of the marketing pull to any bundle which has featured me so far, so I have rock bottom expectations for this one.

But I would love for you to surprise me. And I believe in my books or I wouldn't be trying.

For my latest mini-bundle, I considered a couple factors

- What books of mine haven't really been featured in bundles
- What goes together thematically

This was basically one of the smallest options I floated in an earlier blog post.

In case folks don't know, you don't actually have to yeet windows 10 for shitty 11 this month. Pass it on! And comments off bc this is not an invitation to rec linux