Smashing WordPress: Beyond the Blog

No, I haven’t got a release date for the first part of The Green Knight short story yet. It’s close, but I’m editing and fiddling around a bit with the storyline, to make room for a future little happening, so hang in there a little longer. I’m also waiting for the cover illustration for The Green Knight, which is due later this week. If you want to make sure you don’t miss it, be sure to subscribe via RSS or e-mail, it’s free of course.

The ESC! Magazine podcast, Coffee House To Go, mentions OrnTales.com in show #27, about 38 minutes in. “Very cool stuff” is nice verdict indeed, thanks for that! Be sure to check out the Coffee House To Go podcast either way, by the way, nice listening for us lit people.

Have you seen the Mahalo’s Firefox toolbar, called Mahalo Follow? Then you’ve seen what great taste the good folks over at Mahalo have. Here’s a screenshot:

Mahalo Follow’s got good taste

Recognize something? Fun stuff.

I’m happy to announce that work on the next short story – The Green Knight – featuring Knight-in-Waiting Stiel Uthrom, is well underway. The first part is written and just needs a final editing by yours truly, and part 2-3 are partly written, while part 4 is drafted. I’d reckon this story will be at least six parts long though, so I need a few more sessions before I’m comfortable starting to publish here on OrnTales.com.

I’d also like to let you all know that the world of Orn haven’t been standing still while I’ve been fiddling with other things. Major story events have been drafted in a timeline already, and I’ve actually taken a huge step character-wise, that might not mean so much to you, dear reader, but it does to me since it more or less changes everything. Having a plan at this early stage helps me set up events in a grander fashion.

Next time you hear from me will hopefully be in a few days, with me announcing a publishing date for the first part in The Green Knight story. Stay tuned, and be sure to subscribe to updates if you don’t already.

It was certainly about time I relaunched interview blog BloggerTalks, something that happened today. Long time readers have gotten newsier The Rag stories, a new kind of content for the site, in their feedreaders for a few days, and that have served as a bug test for the new design. Well, now we’re officially back, and with an interview with the excellent Skellie to begin with.

Enjoy!

I’m happy to announce that the next story here on OrnTales.com, the direct follow-up to Quest for Knighthood, is well underway. As I’ve previously said, The Green Knight will feature Knight-in-Waiting Stiel Uthrum and his adventures. The cover image is ordered from my illustrator, and writing’s going good so far.

My goal is to publish the first part in this story before the end of January, but I don’t want to commit to that just yet. There are some other things Orn craving my attention as well, so you might have to wait until February to reacquaint yourself with Stiel again.

Until next time, take care.

I’m back at work, but I’m going to lay low here for the remainder of the week. The reason is the blog launch due next week, namely BloggerTalks. So stay tuned for an official announcement soon.