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A busy summer and the forthcoming YouTube channel

To give my blog posts a clear focus from this point on, they’ll comprise of two main sections. The first being updates made on various stories during the preceding month; and the second, being a focus on three specific goals for the coming month. During the last 30 days: Meet Chompy has been made available via Kindle Unlimited. The Crossing of Crocklemell is now available as a paperback. The audio versions of Meet Chompy and Bristlewurm have been finalised. The Promise has entered the final revision stages with an expected release of the ebook for next month. The Bushgreave has also entered its final revision stages with an expected release of the ebook for August. The Duskwood Ribticklers is undergoing its final staging with an expected release for September. A welcome video for the forthcoming Undelund Tales YouTube channel has been created ready for publishing next month (15th July). 30 YouTube ‘short’ videos featuring excerpts for Bristlewurm and Meet Chompy h...
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Cora Winstanley's Adventures

In my previous post I covered the character Elise Mayflower and her upcoming stories. This post covers another adventurous young lady, Cora Winstanley. Miss Winstanley features in my first tale, The Oakmere Grynfang and a short story named, Bristlewurm . Adding to those two stories will be two new tales. Both upcoming releases have Cora team up with exotics-hunter Tarron Hawkmoor (from TingleToes and The Bushgreave ) and the pair set off on adventures together. The first of these two is Night Strife (due towards the end of the year) and this will be followed by the grimly named Danglemaggot, planned for early next year. Before those two stories are released, the narrated versions of Cora’s other stories Bristlewurm and The Oakmere Grynfang are due along in the summer. Speaking of summer, this season will see the following releases (roughly in order): The Crossing of Crocklemell (Paperback) Bristlewurm (Narrated) Meet Chompy (Kindle Unlimited) Meet Chompy (N...
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Elise Mayflower's Tingling Toes

With the finishing touches being made to the paperback edition of Tingle Toes, now's a perfect time to provide an update on the upcoming stories featuring the story's protagonist, Miss Elise Mayflower. Elise has two more stories to be told this year, firstly: The Bushgreave.   Miss Mayflower is tasked with babysitting a bushgreave while her business partner and mentor Tarron Hawkmoor heads away on a business trip. The instructions on caring for the little beastie are clear enough; however, a cake-scoffing porter-boy's absent mindedness throws a spanner in the works. This short story is planned for release this autumn. Following shortly after The Bushgreave is the tale of The Duskwood Ribticklers:   In this tale, Elise sets off with Tarron to assist her new friend Sooki Brookes (pictured being spooked in the graphic above) who she met in the story Tingle Toes. Once those are published, the first ‘Mayflower Collection’ paperback will be released and includes the...
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Planned Audiobooks for 2025

Rather than an author, I consider myself a story-teller, and a story can be told in many ways. My plan since the inception of Undelund Tales is to make the stories available in the most optimal formats; one of those being via audiobooks or in a streaming format to be listened to on websites like YouTube or services like Spotify. Professional Voice Actor Narration: In an ideal world this would be always my first choice. Nothing beats having other people read a manuscript, add their own twist to a character, and spice things up as they go along. In the future, I'd like all the stories be be narrated and voiced this way; at the moment though it's too cost-prohibitive. Fully-automated services: Narration service provide an easy method of making stories available as audiobooks; however, the downside from my perspective is that (at the time of writing), there is no means for story-tellers to 'proof-listen' to the story before it's made available to ensure it's up to ...
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Planned Print Books for 2025

  It's always  been on the cards to make as many tales available in as many formats as (practically) possible, including: eBook format. Print format. Audiobooks/stream. After assessing viable options for print; Amazon's publishing service appears to offer the best balance between options, cost, and quality. That said, for the time being, Amazon will be where these print options can be found. The types of print offerings will be as followed: Single Tales: As per this blog post, the following two titles are currently available in print: The Oakmere Grynfang A Girl Named Latchford Also, at the time of this blog post, the following two titles are being prepared: The Farley Mount Pinchers Tingle Toes During May 2025, it is expected the title The Crossing of Crocklemell will also be available in print. Collections: During the latter part of the year (likely autumn), the first 'Collection' will be published as a print-only option. These collections group together stories base...
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Spring 2025 - Update

The writing of novelette Meet Chompy is complete and will be released when the audiobook version is finalised and ready. All being well, Meet Chompy will be available this summer in the following formats: Ebook. Audiobook. The next few months should see the availability of the following: The Oakmere Grynfang (print version and this edition also includes the short-story Bristlewurm). A Girl Named Latchford (print version). The Farley Mount Pinchers (print version). Current tales in the works are: The Duskwood Ribticklers (third draft). The Promise (first draft). The Bushgreave (outlining and storyboarding). The next few months will be busy in a fun way, and in case anyone does read this blog, I’ll post updates each fortnight on how the tales are progressing and any other news. Audiobook versions of Bristlewurm and The Oakmere Grynfang  are available on Apple Books and Overdrive Audio (the ‘news’ section of the Undelund Tales website will be updated with links when they're avai...
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Voices from Undelund

Veering away from posts about stories and their status; this brief article explores the ‘Voices from Undelund’ that appear on the Undelund Tales website . Background When writing, one of the things I like to do is have a picture in my mind of not only the character’s personality but also how they ‘look’. The reason I like to have a clear picture in my mind of each major character, is because each scene of the story plays out in my mind as a mini movie before I try to convey the scenes using words. The ‘Voices of Undelund’ blends a character's avatar with something they think, write, or say; and clicking the graphic will take a website’s visitor to the story being referenced. The goal is to give potential readers a teaser around the characters and story content. Example Below is a recent addition to the ‘voices’ from the story Bristlewurm . The character is Cora Winstanley and is one of sixteen I’ve created that relate to the story. Of those sixteen 'voices', f...
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