Dissecting Literature

The day has finally come! We were waiting for this for a while now, but time flows fast during this pandemic, so it’s finally here. Our debut novel Shackles of the Storm is launching today at every major retailer!  We wanted to make this day special, but because it’s our first book, we had no idea what to expect. Publishing a book is a long journey with a lot of learning and gaining experience, especially for a self-published author. When we started to write our book baby we had never expected that one day we will publish it. This story started as a coping mechanism to our long-distance relationship and because we wanted to create something for ourselves, a whole world just for us. But when we got close to the last chapters we realized that it will really be a book, and it could be published should we want that to happen. So we dived deep into the world of publishing, the how-to videos, mistakes to avoid, and the nerve-wracking waiting period before our first betas gave their judgm...

  Some of you may have wondered what good is looking at old myths and legends – the answer is always inspiration, of course. And to lead by example, here’s how lost civilization stories inspired us. We may investigate more mysterious places and such later on because it’s an inexhaustible source for posts and inspiration, but for now, exciting times are ahead of us. First, let me remind you all, that our debut novel, Shackles of the Storm is currently on pre-order and coming on the 13th of June. If you are interested, you can buy the ebook at every major retailer, or go big and get a paperback copy from Amazon or IngramSpark. It took an enormous amount of work to create, with still more left to do to get it out for you guys, but everyone started somewhere, right?  I. A world of pantsers Shackles of the Storm is the first book in a series we named „Spirits of Seiran”. While a lot of writers start the writing process with world-building, we just sat down on a rainy Saturday a few...