Does Lenamare, as Tom's summoner, bear partial responsibility for Tom's actions?
What I mean to ask is: Would the counsel put some heat on Lenamare for being Tom's summoner/ Accursed Master.

If you don't believe me about being AussieKid, that's your problem; we are in the Abyss after all!

Yes, Demons are known to change their names pretty frequently, and they only talk about themselves, or me.

Talking about me is, of course, the best thing people in the Abyss can do, since, clearly, I am the most interesting person in the Abyss.

You won't believe how many arguments I get over this one simple, obvious point.

As for other books, T-A-G has discovered that he only got about half as far as planned in book ii, so there is now an extra book and the story is at least 4 if not 5 or 6 books.

There has been a plan to do short stories or spin offs for some time. For example Tales of the Demon Bard which are the adventures of Antefalken prior to this book.

But there is also another spin-off planned based on a character (or two) in book ii. I can't say much about that because it would give stuff away, but it would be a roughly concurrent story line in another universe that would have some character and event cross overs. Thing Flash/Arrow and similar TV cross overs.

Also, as mentioned before, one reason T-A-G is putting up so much world info is to at some point generate interest in reader fiction in the same multiverse.

I, smw, want to be a beta demon.

I have posted typos in the past.

http://astlan.net/Forum/...posts/t/47/Typos#post787

Fine for beta...that should be starting soon according to T-A-G.

I am going to create a Beta Forum for him soon. He just wants me to hold off so people don't get too excited too fast.

The beta thing is not for everyone. IN THAT: While anyone in the forums that wants to can be a beta demon, as T-A-G will explain in the opening to the beta forum why one might not want to be a beta demon, and why it will be locked to beta demons only.

Mainly, it's because it exposes you to the "Infinite Worlds of Maybe" Beta demons may end up traveling down alternate--dead end--timelines that get wiped out by the 'final timeline.'

E.g. when something bad happens and then someone from the near future goes back and makes sure that bad thing didn't happen and then in the new 'official' timeline that bad thing didn't happen, the time traveler ends remembering both realities.

In other words, being a beta demon may expose people to information/event/plot destroying horribleness that doesn't actually ever happen in the real world (of Astlan/TheAbyss) but you just thought it happened for a while, like a bad dream.

This can bother some people. You have to be able to live with possibly having knowledge of these universes, but you can't ever tell anyone because 1) no one would believe you and they would lock up and away from gen-pop and 2) My demon buddies would hunt you down and eat your soul.

Anyway, so as of last word on progress, that's on the front page, there are now hard deadlines. Given that the deadlines are further out than he'd planned, T-A-G is taking time before the beta program to go back and clean things up/improve consistency and then optimize the 'wrap up' for Book ii

This is actually kind of important because what he had planned to do in book ii is now what is book ii + book iii, in that it turns out that in order to get to where book ii was supposed to go...has taken a lot more story than planned and the old end of book ii is now the end of book iii. I think this was bad planning on T-A-G's part. But in the end, I think it has improved the multiverse.

To give you a hint of the detail.

Book I took place over a period of 30 Astlanian days. I.e. 1.5 Anuropian Quarter Months I am not sure how many people realized that.
Book II takes place over basically 10 more days. So Book 1 and 2 together last 1 Uropian month.

Word counts are going to be very similar (Dead Tree page limit for on demand printing)

In other words, book II maintains the speed of action at the end of book I, we are not slowing down. Although

Edited by user Sunday, May 10, 2015 10:57:44 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Yeah, I will send out emails for people to confirm and then there will be a beta demon only forum for discussion, access.

He said mid May, but it will probably be end of May...timelines shifted when Editor said she couldn't touch it until July 1....

So T-A-G is going back and filling in the timeline with more detail scenes etc.

This is only series that's hooked me so bad that I'm regularly tracking the progress for release updates, I'd sign up for beta reading just to get access to it sooner but I'd rather hold out and wait for the finalised product although if there was a way to pre-order the book to get a copy as soon as it's been finished then I'd sell my soul to get it as soon as humanly or better yet inhumanly possible.

Well when you find a way to edit the timestream you may as well go for it! One of these days I will catch up to that blue box flying bastard and steal me a neat magical screwdriver.

so when does Beta testing start? i cant wait am so excited

I am very excited and the anticipation is killing me. With TAG being so active and having a well formed world I don't have to worry about it being like the slap in the face that was the blood song sequel.