Text version 1.04

An updated version is uploading, as I’ve finally finished reviewing on my kindle. This is the last planned update to the ebook text for the time being. Further edits, likely being based on feedback or if I happen to spot a typo.

The delta between v1.03 and v1.04, is that optimizing the formatting for readability and the smaller screen of a kindle is now complete for chapters 5 onwards. A few minor corrections have been made, most of them in chapter 9. If you don’t see a version code on the copyright page, your device has yet to download the latest update.

Going to take a break for a while. But soon, I will return my attention towards preparations on volume 2 of a Demon Lord of a Small Village. My goal there is to have it ready sometime early next year, preferably with greater optimization in place, now that I know better how Amazon’s tools differ from my actual Kindle’s rendering.

To those handful of readers out there, I hope you’re enjoying the first book :).

A small update to the text

An updated version is now live. A few typos have been corrected, notably “Epilogue” (🤦‍♂️) and “dace” in part of chapter 3. For anyone with the usual automatic book update enabled, these should roll out shortly. There’s also the manual option. In the future, I think I might add a ‘text version’ code to the copyright page.

Most other changes are adjustments to the paragraph splitting and capitalization in various passages. There’s a fair bit of difference between Amazon’s preview tools and actual device rendering, making it easier to review on my Paperwhite with its small screen.

As I continue to work through the kindle edition, interspersed with my regular reading, there may be other fixes. But I’m happy that misspellings have been rare. Yes, of course you always find them after deciding you’ve fixed them all :).

Demon Lord of a Small Village

So, there’s been a project that I’ve been kicking around for a few years. It originally began as a story idea that grew from another idea for a light novel, and took on a small life of its own among my pastime of typing words into a computer. When I was reaching the end of the experiment, I found myself wanting to continue that tale, and well, by the time I was working on the second major story arc, I was already thinking of publishing the first one as a traditional ebook in order to share it with a wider group or creating a new section on my website to host the series.

In the end, I decided to focus on a Kindle release.

Now available on Amazon!

As Lucious lay dying on the battlefield, he never could have imagined that his final moments would lead him to a meeting with the breathtaking goddess Luna. She needed a champion’s aid in saving her realm of Cerulea, but it turns out there is just one problem with saving the world – she needed him to become the demon lord!

Reincarnated into a world full of swords and sorcery, Lucious is left in the tutelage of the goddess’s devotees, from whom he learns all manner of magic and martial arts. He spent his childhood in the demon’s village of Nefharoh, preparing for a future confrontation with humanity’s summoned hero.

Meanwhile, the half-elven Seraphim grew up traveling across Cerulea with her merchant parents. At first, she believed that Lucious found her annoying, but as they spent more time together by the river, they became close allies, supporting each other, and their friendship blossomed with the passing years.

However, life remained peaceful in the quiet village of Nefharoh as time passed. Seraphim inherited her father’s business, becoming a successful merchant herself, while Lucious resigned himself to living an ordinary life, believing that he would never be called upon to face down the hero. When Seraphim needed protection for a special delivery to the capital, Lucious joined her on the road, unaware that this journey would push them both closer to their destinies and to each other.

Recently, I turned my attention from ideas on volume 8’s story to preparing the first volume for publishing, specifically having a professional book cover made. While the general flow of the story hasn’t changed since my original creation, significant editing and cleanup has gone into publishing volume 1, along with writing a new chapter bridging the first and second acts.

The more I’ve worked on my little hobby, the more I’ve enjoyed their adventures and the characters that join them along the way. Volume 1 focuses on the protagonists and introducing them and their world, setting the stage for the rest of the story arc and those that follow it.

I’ve written a fair bit of stuff for fun over the years, but I usually talk myself out of taking it any further than a short story. Well, this time I managed to talk myself in the other direction. Over time it’s gone from a small concept to a complete work with a length similar to the light novels I often read for fun. Here’s hoping that some readers out there will enjoy Lucious and Seraphim’s antics, and be interested in later volumes.

Perhaps I’ll add a section to my website as a place for books I’ve written…assuming I can talk myself into sharing the rest of my stories, lol.

As a side note, ordinarily I don’t earn anything if you click links on my site. Never had any interest in that sort of thing since this place serves as my journal. But obviously as the author of the book, this scenario is a tad different :).