This week's Substack post shares a quick and dirty timeline of my book's journey down the winding road of self-publishing, followed by a "Where I'm at" book update!

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A Self-Publishing Timeline and Book Update!

What a busy week it has been! I had initially planned to post about my experience of signing my book up for ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) sites, but a snag with EPUB formatting led me to change course. So, I thought I’d share the timeline of my self-publishing journey so far instead!

Ruins & Writings (H.S. Gilchrist Author)

Blog Post! This week, I'm shifting gears from my self-publishing journey to unveil the event that reshaped our future Earth—the backdrop of my upcoming scifi book, THE END OF THE WORLD. Secrets revealed, a new piece of art, and a short prequel! Check it out!

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https://hsgilchrist.substack.com/p/the-day-the-earth-broke

The Day the Earth Broke

The end of the world begins...

Ruins & Writings (H.S. Gilchrist Author)

It's been awhile because blogging and editing and day job (oh my!) are time-consuming, but here's some new character art!

Introducing Harvester, a former member of the Severed Sky People, now an outlander who has rejected the Creator's laws against venturing into the Old World cities. What role does she play in the After Lord's schemes? (also, check out her trendy dollarstore beads!)

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Four months to the day until THE END OF THE WORLD launches (Feb. 5th)! Yikes! Planning on sending ARCs out in November. Nothing like reading about a broken, #dystopian world right before Christmas, right?? Maybe I should send them out on #blackfriday 😆

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Weekly blog post is up! No lore dumps this week--just a foray into the 'so-far' costs of self-publishing. Subscribers get notifications sent straight to their email inboxes!

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The Writing

Measuring Success

Ruins & Writings (H.S. Gilchrist Author Blog)

Dumping some lore and artwork from THE END OF THE WORLD into my blog tonight! Learn about “mods”: half-machine, half-human, and fully slave. Earth’s future isn’t looking so nice…

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The Plight of Mods in a Dystopian World

In the desolate future of my upcoming sci-fi novel, “THE END OF THE WORLD”, the remnants of our Earth—shattered by an ancient cataclysm—suffer beneath the oppressive, alien reign of the Technocracy. Mods (short for ‘modified humans’) exist as a bleak symbol of humanity's enslavement.

Ruins & Writings (H.S. Gilchrist Author Blog)

Next character art up: MC Mica's eldest brother, Reid Stone. Charming lad. Got himself involved with the wrong (or right?!) people. Where's he at now? Find out in THE END OF THE WORLD, my #dystopianbook (TBR Feb. 5, 2024)

If previous character/world art interests you, check out my gallery on my website

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A new piece of character art --
Animkii's former mentor, Raak.

He's the current War Chief of the Fire Bones--the surviving descendants of of Ontario's #Anishinaabe people. He's a ruthless man constantly battling the storm inside him, but the last year has not been kind to him... Want to find out why? Well, THE END OF THE WORLD tells all on Feb. 5, 2023!

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