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Tenkar's Tavern: A Completed Kickstarter: Maelorum, an epic Gamebook

Tenkar's Tavern: A Completed Kickstarter: Maelorum, an epic Gamebook

Trollish Delver: Preview: Maelorum gamebook

Trollish Delver: Preview: Maelorum gamebook

Jonathan Green, Author: Gamebook Friday: Maelorum

Jonathan Green, Author: Gamebook Friday: Maelorum

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Live on Kickstarter

It's an exciting time, now that Maelorum is close to finished, I am trying to crowdfund the very last steps to get it to my backers, and to the public.

I launched a kickstarter campaign, you can see it here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/314653974/maelorum-an-epic-gamebook

Once funded, I will be able to publish it, and give my backers some sweet rewards, as pictured here. This is one adventure I hope you join me on! Thanks for reading!

Teaser Trailer and Art video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njpjB7BCBvs

Apparently I am adding Video Producer to my list of job duties! This is a teaser trailer for Maelorum, and a special art creation video for the fans. Hope you enjoy!

Cover Design

Hello once again, I know I have been remiss on updating my ACTUAL blog here, but I do post to Facebook fairly often. I am three pages away from finishing the second draft, and the book is in testing and editing as well. So as this massive undertaking is winding down, I found some time to consider the cover of my book. Here are two concepts I created today, if anyone has any input or feedback on which they like better, I'd love to hear it. Thanks for reading, as always!

Just a test

Hello all, I'm making very good progress on the second draft, and even stepping into some preliminary beta testing of the first chapters. Oddly enough I am still having fun reading / playing my own work, even though I have gone through it probably 500 times or more. These are exciting times, and the Gamebook Genre itself has begun a sort of Renaissance in the midst of all my work. I still have not seen anything like Maelorum. I am a little worried they will want to cut my head open and study me after this book comes out to figure out how I engineered, wrote, and illustrated it all. And if people want to copy my style, including my navigation system after it comes out, I will take that as the highest compliment however I doubt anyone will be able to. This book has been ten years in the making, after all.

Second Draft in progress!

It's been an age since I blogged. Take that more as an indicator that I have been working steadfast on the book, not that I have nothing to say. Plus life has just kept me that busy. Actually I post more frequently on the Facebook site. Anyways, I am currently writing the second draft. Basically I am rewriting the endings for all three characters because I came up with a new concept for the place of the final battle. Think of how video game developers create level design, and you get the idea. It should give me some artistic freedom to do something much more dramatic and rewarding. I expect to finish this second draft within two months and then off to someone who can edit professionally. So I painted this from a sketch I did many months ago, illustrating the ruins of a gaunt dwarven face with a beard of lava. I will probably touch this up some more, but for now here is a sneak peek. Thanks again for reading!