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Have you purchased "The Summons" on Amazon? Consider leaving a review!

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The Summons is now available to add on Goodreads! Check it out there.

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Financial statement: Compensation on The Summons is not yet paid out, we expect to get paid out in January. Unpaid compensation totals $25.29 which is approximately 30% of publishing costs. Therefore, no proceeds have been donated yet.

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Reactions? Would love to hear how The Summons Authors felt about the other writers' stories! It would make great quotable material too.

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All contributors to The Summons! Have you got your copy yet? Have you told your friends and family to get theirs?

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Only 4 days until The Summons!

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Only 6 days until The Summons!

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The Summons final print cover!

The aspect ratio of the book is square. ^-^

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The Summons - Ebook cover.

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Amazon lists an incorrect page count for The Summons, not sure how to fix that. It says "204 pages" when it should say "254 pages".

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The Summons paperback and ebook now open for pre-orders!

(Ebook cover subject to change. Paperback cover shown is also a little out of date as of 9/12 but should load the new version soon)

You've been summoned. But where? Perhaps it is to the presence of the King. Perhaps an otherworldly banquet. Perhaps it is the inescapable pull of the soul to the unapproachable light. Or perhaps you've just been invited to a bible study by a neighbor? Judge wisely, dear reader, for perhaps the darkness has summoned you as well.

From opulent fantastical worlds to the magic hidden behind the veneer of the mundane, these 7 original fairy tales will astound and delight. 5 new Christian writers make their print debut on the literary scene, and Evelyn M. Lewis and Maria Fedina return, in the first Salt and Light Collection. Make haste, and do not delay.

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E-Proofs are now available to the authors/contributors of The Summons! (Free author advance copy comes in the form of an ebook)

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Well, since other engagements are off, it seems like a great day to do a front cover reveal for The Summons.

@stealingmyplaceinthesun

@cygnascrimbles

@wandering-in-wonderland

@evelynmlewis

@afairmaiden

@epnona-the-wisp

And I know I'm missing one more!!

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Well hello everyone. Typo on Realm Makers website had them saying voting for the finalists was open from the 21st to June 10th, but they just changed it quietly to read May 29th-June 12th.

We are on pause

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Great news, we got all the final versions of all the stories for the anthology! Now for the design elements...

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My apologies to everyone who received an email with 284 visible recipients. Outlook doesn't warn you when you're about to do that sort of thing.

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Unclear on what this means for authors or consumers except that we can clearly see traditional publishing is certainly no guarantee of "making it". I wish the antitrust lawsuit had been about breaking up Amazon.

Deeply dispiriting post: testimony from a DOJ antitrust action reveals the entire book publishing industry is celebrity memoirs, established franchise authors like James Patterson, children's books, Bibles, and back catalogues (e.g. Lord of the Rings). Publishing new authors is not even a rounding error; you get the sense it's only done anymore out of a vague sense of obligation, and the moment one of the Big Five decides on the defect strategy, and stops doing that to save a few more bucks, it will end entirely.