Reader Question Day #60 – the end of DEMONSOULED and THE TOWER OF ENDLESS WORLDS
bitetheasp asks:
Is ‘Worlds to Conquer‘ related to the ‘Tower of Endless Worlds‘ series?
Yes. Well. Sort of.
To sum up a long story, I pretty much spent all of 2003 writing the entirety of what would become THE TOWER OF ENDLESS WORLDS series. I wrote it as one book, and by the time the final draft was done, it was about 300,000 words. No publisher on God’s green earth is going to publish a 300,000 word book, so I split it up into four, and started trying to sell the first volume, which I called WORLDS TO CONQUER. Eventually, I did sell the first volume, and it was published in August of 2008.
Unfortunately, it did not sell very well, and I made just enough money to buy a double Whopper with cheese, which was delicious, and that was that. I washed my hands of it and forgot about it.
But! Fast forward to 2011, and I discovered ebooks. I got the rights back to WORLDS TO CONQUER, renamed it THE TOWER OF ENDLESS WORLDS, and published the series as ebooks in June of 2012. I made the first book in the series, THE TOWER OF ENDLESS WORLDS, free, and then I set the three remaining books – A KNIGHT OF THE SACRED BLADE, A WIZARD OF THE WHITE COUNCIL, and THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS, for $2.99 each.
Since then the three paid books have sold together an average of about 180 copies a month, a fact for which I am very grateful. It’s quite a bit different than DEMONSOULED or THE GHOSTS, and I’ve never written anything else quite like it. So I’m grateful that people have been enjoyed them.
If you’re curious about the series, I frankly recommend that you get the free ebook version of THE TOWER OF ENDLESS WORLDS rather than the paper version of WORLDS TO CONQUER. It’s free, for one thing, and I’ve also revised and edited it quite a bit.
Scott asks, concerning the DEMONSOULED series:
This is a great series I hope to be reading them for a long time to come. Any idea how many more are to come???
SOUL OF SWORDS will be the last book in the DEMONSOULED series. I’ve been working on DEMONSOULED on and off since 2001, and I would like to try my hand at a new setting and new characters.
That said, I do plan to return to the world (and some of the characters) of DEMONSOULED in later books. Like the way Terry Brooks keeps returning to Shannara, or Terry Prachett to Discworld (though hopefully without Mr. Prachett’s well-publicized support for euthanasia). So someday we will have new books in the DEMONSOULED world.
-JM