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beyondmistland · 1 year

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Interview about my book!

NYC comic writer, Benjamin Morse, has invited me to talk about my book on his YouTube channel tomorrow at 7 PM EST! Hope to see y’all there!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLsLXrIQ3Lo

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serenelunatic · 6 months

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If you ever wanted to know which Mistland territory is the biggest, this post is for you

#dragon nest #Mistland #lore

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smashpages · 6 months

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Mistland is a five-issue adventure series that follows the suspects of a murder who are exiled in the frozen vastness of a place called the Mistland, created by Rafael Scavone and Rafael Albuquerque, written by Felipe Castilho with art by Felipe Watanabe, colors by Natalia Marques, letters by Deyvison Manes, and covers by Rafael Albuquerque.

Coming from Stout Club and Comixology in 2024. Read more

#mistland #felipe castilho #rafael scavone #rafael albuquerque #natalia marques #felipe watanabe #deyvison manes #comixology originals #stout club #digital comics

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graphicpolicy · 24 days

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Exclusive Preview: Mistland #2

Mistland #2 exclusive preview. A member of the royalty is murdered, and the three clans are thrown into chaos #comics #comicbooks

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#comic books #Comics #comixology originals #digital comics #exclusive #featured #felipe castilho #felipe watanabe #mistland #stout club

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beneathathousandskies · 1 year

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Book Review: Eleventh Cycle (Mistland #1) - Kian N. Ardalan

Hello! Today I am sharing my review for Eleventh Cycle by Kian Ardalan, the first book in the Mistland series. This was a book that I really wanted to love, but as you will see from the length (and I apologise…I think this is my longest review to date) that didn’t happen. There is so much potential in this book, and it has some of the most spectacular worldbuilding, but it turned out not to be…

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#Eleventh Cycle #Fantasy #Grimdark #Kian. N. Ardalan #Mistland #Self Published

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lo-batteryy · 17 days

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Something something vintage fantasy color pallet is perfect in the misltands

#hot take apparently but I’m ENAMORED by the mist lands and I love the dvergr soooo much #I’m still coming up with a name for her #valheim #valheim oc #dvergr #valheim mistlands #lo art

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crabdinners · 2 months

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God Valheim is pretty

#Valheim #Finally braving the mistlands I need the new building materials in ashlands

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kmlaney · 2 months

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WIP questionnaire

tagged by @coffeewritesfiction and I am so sorry to take this long on a reply. Thanks for the tag!

Tagging @fallenscintilla (if you want! No pressure!) and @waywardwizzard and anyone who wants to!

1. What is the first part of your WIP that you created?

The very first line was: “D’ya think I care how it tastes?” I posted an edited version here. There's a snip of the original here.

For the record, it started as a character background for a TTRPG. In fact, it wasn’t even going to be the character I was going to play. Harrowed (undead/revenant) gunfighter? *eyeroll* Too cliché. I even made a homebrew archetype to play: a “spiritualist” in the late 1800’s sense. But that first line kept bugging me so I figured, okay. Fine. I’ll write this one scene and then work on my spiritualist.

Yeah. No. I never played the spiritualist.

2. If your story was a TV show, what would the theme song/intro be?

I did all the fan stuff for Phil and Skyfallen, like playlists, faceclaims, all of that. I never did that before. I selected music for the theoretical TV show: main theme, a rotating list of outro/credits roll music, pieces for certain kinds of scenes. So if Skyfallen were a TV series, this would be the theme:

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3. What are your favorite characters that you made? Why?

That’s like asking which of my pets was my favorite. I love them all. I guess I loved Phil enough to make them the viewpoint character. They’re a more-mature version of the kind of character I wrote when I was a kid, now with serious problems I can explore as an adult. I like Phil’s father, whom I was determined to fridge in the beginning because fridging is usually a female character. Ha Ha! Then I went and gave him a character arc that could only end in his death so he’s not fridged after all.

I like Travelling Sam for being a conniving, money-grubbing jerk, but he’s fun to write. I like Eva as Carnival Mom; Maury for being a flamboyant, fun-to-be-around person hiding a serious drinking problem that everyone knows about. I like Doc Butcher for his name, for actually being trained as a vet but caring about everyone, and trying to do his best when he’s in over his head because he can’t do nothing.

I like Maker Lewis for his change of heart, though he was already on the fence and just needed a shove. And I like Miss Warren for being a nosy reporter whom Phil doesn’t want to like but ends up liking anyway. She also lets me play at muckraking reporter. Choosing words to specifically slant a piece is a load of fun.

4. What other pieces of media do you think your fan base would share?

Skyfallen has its roots in Westerns, so people who like cinematic westerns are a potential fanbase. I include horror, steampunk, and gothic elements, so if your venn diagram of interests includes those things then it might be for you.

Things I like that influenced or feel like this story: Silverado, The Magnificent Seven, RIPD 2 Rise of the Damned (movies. I hate to admit that last one but it was fun). Deadlands (TTRPG game. I created Phil for this setting). The Dark Tower novels--primarily Wizard and Glass but any of the parts dealing with Roland’s world.

There is zero romance. Phil’s ace, there is no main love interest, and anyone who gets together does so very off-screen.

5. What has been your biggest struggle with your WIP?

When writing the draft, the individual scenes flew out of my brain. I could hardly write them fast enough. In deep editing, though, it’s the big-picture stuff I find challenging. Which themes do I want to emphasize and which are less important? Do I really need all this buildup or should I start later? I need to show certain things so the later ones make sense, but that makes it even longer. It’s already very long; shouldn’t I be cutting things down? Argh. It's frustrating.

6. Are there any animals in your story? Talk about them!

There are animals. Most are utilitarian: Horses, dogs, cats, chickens, cows. There are monsters also (for certain values of “monster”) all along the continuum from “non-sapient animal” through to “self-aware human intelligence.”

The way they figure into the story is more interesting. In life, Phil liked animals in general and had a special fondness for horses and mules. After dying and coming back reanimated, animals can’t stand to be around them. Phil doesn’t figure it out right away, and it hurts when they do.

7. How do your characters get around? (Ex. Trains, horses, cars, dragons, etc.)

For the area the characters are in for the bulk of the story, most people walk, ride horses, or ride in wagons, carts, or coaches pulled by horses or teams of horses. There are a couple of trains but they are rare. In other areas, trains are common, as are ferries and lake boats. Airships exist; they are novelties and considered simultaneously luxurious and dangerous. In larger cities, along with the horse-drawn vehicles, people have bicycles, rickshaws, pedal-powered rickshaws, and palanquins. Automatons in a variety of configurations may be subbed in for horses or people in any of those conveyances.

8. What part of your WIP are you working on right now?

I’ve identified some specific foreshadowing that needs to happen. So I need to add that in. There are a few names that aren’t consistent; they’re flagged so I can fix them. I need to put in a few encounters so later ones make sense. It’s not exactly foreshadowing so much as worldbuilding. So editing stuff.

9. What aspects (tropes, maybe) of your WIP do you think will draw people in?

I have a hard time identifying tropes in my work, probably because I’m in the trees, so to speak, and can’t see the forest. Or groves, to push the metaphor. Having said that, here’s an attempt:

Portal/isekai

Found family

Unlikely group of heroes

Humans can be evil; monsters can be sympathetic

Religion, Magic, and cults

Monsters dwelling among humans

Enemies to not-friends (don’t push your luck)

Things get worse

Everyone has secrets

Lost memories, memory tampering

Weird West

Steampunk and Gothic Horror

Gunslinger/trick shot

Noble Demon/antihero

Good is not nice

I did come up with one of those taglines that you might see on the bottom of the cover of a book:

“Every Skyfallen has something they want to forget. And everyone in the Mistlands is Skyfallen.”

10. What are your hopes for your WIP?

Originally I was hoping for traditional publishing. I might still try to go that way. I’m also looking into self-pub, and websites that host serial stories. I think this story fits better into a serial format than a traditional book format. I need to make it more coherent (hence editing phase)

#kmlaney writes #kmlaney characters #kmlaney answers #All About my WIP #bad luck phil #mistlands #skyfallen #writing #coffeewritesfiction #fallenscintilla #Youtube

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dailynie-nie · 1 year

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My treehouse complex in the server. I live as the only swamp settler.

#valheim #i had multiple fall deaths before the mistlands update #from setting the foundations on the trees #the only viking warrior who is crazy enough to choose to live in the swamps #while the others set up their 1st base in the meadows or forest #i hate to refuel torches #why i have plenty of lanterns

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czerwonywilk · 25 days

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Recently I started working on a base on border of mistlands and ashlands' boiling oceans, I found a perfect formation to build some kind of tower or small buildings attached to this rock

I made some wooden stairs to go up and down, but have trouble deciding on which material to use for building (stone or black marble)

#valheim #you can see from my equipment that I'm not ready for mistlands yet so i cant collect black marble #and I have lots of stone in my current base #but black marble has more interesting pieces for building

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beyondmistland · 1 year

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Anniversary Sale!

To celebrate my self-published book’s one-year anniversary, Tales from Mistland & Other Oddities: Volume I, is on sale this week for 99cents!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09N9QL1H7

It’s an anthology of dark speculative fiction written by me and four others, including @warsofasoiaf as well as @cynicalclassicist.

War stories? It has it! Dragonslayers? It has it! Tragic interspecies romance? It has it! Haunted manors and family curses? It has it! Scheming royals? It has it!

And best of all, the book, at 185 pages, can be read in under a day!

Also, did I mention the FREE artwork you can see by clicking on this handy link right here: https://beyondmistland.tumblr.com/tagged/art%20for%20mistland

Please read, review, and share with others! As always, thanks for the support!

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serenelunatic · 7 months

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I'm studying political parties in french class at uni rn and the discussion somehow gave us this

The anti goddess faction is far left now lmao

#dragon nest #funny #Mistland #lore

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graphicpolicy · 2 months

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Preview: Mistland #1

Mistland #1 preview. In the underground kingdom known as The Hollow peace between the three clans is threatened when a murder occurs #comics #comicbooks