Numbers and Project News

Podcast Numbers
by Edward Smith
RB has released some numbers for the download count of the Imonoran Empire Cast. As of the end of April the IEC has a total of 454 downloads. This is great and RB sends out his thanks to all you who are downloading telling friends and just helping to get more downloads.

RB's Universe Project Updates
by John Sanders
RB said in his blog recently that he is thinking of podcasting all his upcoming projects including the Urkia, Ynel and Linal projects.

"I am thinking of Podcasting all the above novels as well as Forced War. I'm not sure but it will boost support of the novels and it worked very well for Scott Sigler (Future Dark Overlord)."

RB (fan of Scott Sigler since Earthcore) is thinking of following in the FDO's footsteps and podcasting his novels making them available for free in audio format and then available in print through Lulu (if not another publisher).

With this good news (at least for us) he has also given us updates on each of the upcoming projects

Empire Project:
Forced War is now slated for an early '09 release. RB is unsure as to whether he will podcast it or not. He is still looking for someone to edit the second draft as well.

The Urkia Project:
RB is unsure as to whether he should write all these books at the same time or not. He has put forth that if he is going to podcast them he will but he still unsure at the moment. He is looking into several possibilities at the moment in ways to split the books up into two or three sessions. with a project in between each one.

Ynel Project:
"The Ynel project is not really even in a planning stage for the novel yet." So RB said in the same blog post as podcast info above. He has started on some short stories but other than that there isn't really a novel yet. RB says that he has "some working ideas that I can run with but nothing that would make a complete novel." He also says that there is no reason to worry because the Ynel Project won't start until December '09 at the very earliest and by then he will have a fleshed out outline of what he wants.

Linal Project:
"OK this is the one that most people are clamoring over. What is Linal? Well I'm not going to tell you. I have told you what Urkia is and what Ynel is and we all know what the Imonoran Empire is so you are just going to have to wait and see on what Linal is. I will release information about it before the Novel is released (most likely in the form of a short story anthology)." We have no information on this but that it is slated for 2010 at the earliest. We, the staff, can not wait to see what this is.