A MONTH LATER...It's my birthday and that feels like a reasonable time to follow up on this. Because I want to. So if it's self-indulgent, GOOD. 🧵 Here's the backstory: The Books of the Usurper is published in the UK/Aus as an ebook through my agency for byzantine publishing reasons. - ThreadSky

erinmevans.bsky.social • 54 days ago

A MONTH LATER...It's my birthday and that feels like a reasonable time to follow up on this. Because I want to. So if it's self-indulgent, GOOD. 🧵

Here's the backstory: The Books of the Usurper is published in the UK/Aus as an ebook through my agency for byzantine publishing reasons.

Reposted from Erin M. Evans

Okay I am going to try and remember to post some art tomorrow (because I have some stuff I keep meaning to share), but if you doubt me, Bluesky (wise), there is a whole thread of fan art on the Dungeon Scrawlers/Writing About Dragons & Shit discord: discord.gg/EqNHR9aX

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cassius335.bsky.social•54 days ago

princejvstin.com•54 days ago

oh by the way, HAPPY BIRTHDAY

erinmevans.bsky.social•54 days ago

THANK YOU!

devafagan.bsky.social•54 days ago

Oh I am so excited to see this art! I loved Empire of Exiles and it's so fun to see what the characters might look like! I was envisioning the Alojans very differently, hah!

erinmevans.bsky.social•54 days ago

You are not alone! It's also not the most fun description for artists, hence Ivy Lee's Tunuk does get a little light reflection as a treat.

devafagan.bsky.social•54 days ago

Oh! I love that one! I love that there's room for all these different artistic interpretations, too! And also, happy birthday!

themonstersknow.com•54 days ago

Erin, it's your birthday. Why are you giving US all the fantastic presents?

blyesford.bsky.social•54 days ago

It’s a great series! Here’s a link to the Australia/UK Kobo version:

https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/empire-of-exiles-3

blyesford.bsky.social•54 days ago

And here’s the Australia/UK Kindle version

Empire of Exiles (Book of the Usurper 1) https://amzn.asia/d/7c5r7rf

schyzm.bsky.social•54 days ago

This is me, patiently waiting for the next book......

erinmevans.bsky.social•54 days ago

My guy, I am WORKING ON IT

schyzm.bsky.social•54 days ago

;) ok ok i'll shaddup about it. Just excited for more. (even thought my "TBR Shelf" is actually verging on the "entire piece of furniture" meaning of shelf, not just one part of it... )

Ahem. yeah, anyhow, Looking forward to it whenever it happens to come around!

erinmevans.bsky.social•54 days ago

This is not the link I'd like to use, but it seems like because I'm NOT in the UK or Australia, I can't see those pages? ANYWAY.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Empire-Exiles-Book-Usurper-1-ebook/dp/B0D126M5MW

bookzombie.bsky.social•54 days ago

It's on Kobo as well, if they don't want to use amazon.

erinmevans.bsky.social•54 days ago

I cannot get the UK version to show up for me on Kobo but this is good to know!

bookzombie.bsky.social•54 days ago

It was a bit weird; when I searched for Empire of Exiles, it didn't come up. But when I searched for your name, it came up on the list of books 🤷

erinmevans.bsky.social•54 days ago

So for this release, I commissioned a sort of gazetteer from @jorgesantiagojr.bsky.social (who you may know from such Books of the Usurper art as the phenomenal promo bookmarks). Because of comments like the one that spurred this thread! What the fuck is an Alojan anyway?

bookeroooo.bsky.social•54 days ago

Yaaaass amazing!!

erinmevans.bsky.social•54 days ago

So, Here we go (By the way this is going to be slow-going, your patience in my indulgence is appreciated)

erinmevans.bsky.social•54 days ago

So okay, assuming you have not read either Empire of Exiles or Relics of Ruin, here is the gist: This world is one where a civilization-shaking catastrophe happened and where we find ourselves is in a small nation on a peninsula where the remnants of ten nations retreated and survived.

erinmevans.bsky.social•54 days ago

AKA If I'm going to strike out on my own, why would I not conceive of a book where I just get to do my favorite worldbuilding parts, thinking about the ways people "people?

erinmevans.bsky.social•54 days ago

We start with Semilla, the people who were on said peninsula before these fey-ish, alien-ish shapeshifting creatures showed up. This one is the emperor of Semilla, showing off the weirdest and most notable regalia, the Imperial Mask. This one is gold so you know he means business.

lauren-urban.com•54 days ago

Self indulgent threads are some of my favorite birthday gifts folks give themselves!!

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