Happy Thanksgiving!

Hey all,

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who watches this. I thank you guys for all your support throughout this entire year. I am currently working on wrapping up NaNoWriMo and Forced War. I'm also working on a lot of stories for upcoming episodes of the Imonoran Empire Cast. Most of these will also appear in Empire Vol. 2. Make sure you guys are working hard on your stories for Empire Vol. 3. That will be the fan Volume of the Empire Short Story Series.

My Thanksgiving day is all about my listeners. Thank you you guys for every download you have done for me this year. I thank you so much for every e-mail you have sent and every call you have made. Thanks.

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RB

Past Episodes of the IEC

The Past episodes are also becoming available, now. We have been looking at what the service, Podango, can do and have started to figure somethings out. You can now download through episode 106 and we are working on getting those last 5 (Episode 000 was already added a few days ago).

Thanks you guys for yesterdays downloads! 126 in one day! you guys have simply blown me away! Thanks!

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RB

IEC Back on iTunes

OK Everyone the Imonoran Empire Cast is back on iTunes. You can now go click that big button on the right side of the screen that says subscribe in iTunes. It works now! Make sure you guys keep the download numbers going up. Thanks for all the support in this transition from one season to the second.

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RB

IEC Moved!

OK the IEC Season Finale is out on time you may just have a hard time finding it! It has been moved to Podango. Thank you all for your support for my first year of podcasting, I really appreciate it!

No the url to the new site is imonoranempire.podango.com. Make sure you go their and subscribe to the feed. The Feedburner feed has been switched but the I am having problems switching the iTunes feed so do not click on the subscribe with iTunes button.

To subscribe in iTunes click on rss button (below the iTunes button) and go to iTunes and in the "Advanced" menu click on subscribe to podcast copy and past the URL in the address bar in the Box that pops up. Do not download the past episodes, most of them won't download because the services won't talk to each other. But new episodes will download. Other wise you should be able to subscribe anywhere else. If the service I was using comes back online I will post an update to let everyone know. Other wise please get the word out. Thank you.

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RB

Out of Town

OK everyone I'm out of town. Good thing I'm head of schedule on NaNoWriMo: 50,000 words people. Yep that's right I'm already at the NaNo limit. I'm working on the down hill slope to make it to 100,000.

The novel is working out quite well. Well enough that I am able to keep working on editing Forced War.

Thanks for all your guys' support. I'll be updating again soon, and expect an episode of IEC this week as well as an update to the Encyclopedia Imperia.

Thanks again,

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RB

Encyclopedia Imperia and IEC Updates

Well the Imonoran Empire Cast and the Encyclopedia Imperia have both been updated.

The new episode of the IEC Showcases not a new story or new part of the IHDA but a story that was written before the Imonoran Empire was the cohesive thing it is today. Saving Worlds is a very early piece that I wrote before the Empire was actually understood in my head. It has been edited and updated several times by me and this is the finished product.

I would like to give a huge shout out to a friend of mine: Amanda Moss! She is the Narrator for this story. Thank you so much Amanda!

The Encyclopedia Imperia has it's first official update, something other than the introduction. The first Article that was chosen to be put up was about the Emperor. This was chosen for the reason that the Empire wouldn't be an empire without the Emperor.

Thank you all for your suport and I hope to here feed back about these two new updates. You can send all e-mail about them to the imonoranempire[at]gmail[dot]com.

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RB

Google Calendar

OK so I made a Google Calendar. It basically shows all the events that will be happening with the Imonoran Empire Cast as well as the Encyclopedia Imperia. I'll put other stuff up when I start to get more information.

This is for y'all. So you can know what is happening and when things are going to be released. The second season of the IEC is getting ready to start.

The IHDA will be put on hold for a while I have a special story that has been read by someone else other than me. So I will have two more episodes this month before the Season Two comes out. The story will be broken into two episodes that gives you a good amount of story per episode. The first will be out on this Wednesday (11-05-08).

Then I'll release Forced War.

That is how the end of this month is going to shape up. All the episodes for this month will be prerecorded since NaNoWriMo is going on and I am trying to double my out put from last month.

New Encyclopedia Imperia Project

OK I've started a new projec that you can find here. This new project is part of the Imperial Writer's Guide and the Empire Project in general. I will be updating this blog with a new article from the Encyclopedia every two weeks. This will hopefully help those who want to write stories in the Imonoran Empire to do so.

These articles will be archived in the Encyclopedia Imperia Site (A.K.A. The Imonoran Empire Wiki) . This means a large expansion for the Imperial Writer's Guide and Encyclopedia Imperia. I hope that people will enjoy the easy format of the Encyclopedia.

No there is no order to how the articles will come out so you will just have to wait and see like everybody else. The first article as well as an Introduction to the whole project is up on the blog already. The first few articles will be ones that are already on the site. That way we can get infomation out to you in a quick manner.

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RB

Blinding Dig (Working Title)

NaNoWriMo '08 is almost upon us and I am going to work at it again this month. I plan to double the out put I had from last year. That's right 100k words this next month instead of 50k. The next novel in the Imonoran Empire will be written during this month giving me more time to work on Ynel and do it right.

To get a synopsis of the novel go to my NaNoWriMo page (by clicking on the banner above). You can also follow my progress this year as I write the novel by clicking the banner.

So watch and wait and you may get a sneak peek at the novel as well.

Lost Falchion Update

OK I'm sure everyone who is still following this is wondering about a release date for Lost Falchion n print.

Well there currently is no release date. It will probably fall long the lines of late (very late) '09. This will put it along the same lines as Forced War's release date giving you too books from the Imonoran Empire line to buy. I've started work on a short story based In Ilahin Imperial Republic as well. It is going to be quite long and won't come out over the feed until after it is complete (which because of other projects probably won't be until after Forced War is finished podcasting).

I'm still working on other stories for the Empire and have started a new series of short stories (outside of what is already being released, so no this isn't the IHDA). This means more content will be coming across the IEC feed for you in the years (yes that is years) to come.

I have started some prelim work on the Next Imonoran Empire Novel/Novella including the time frame characters n general plot line of the story. I will be hiding a release of the Prologue to this latest story somewhere across the RB's Universe with in the next 6-8 months. I will drop hints to it here and everywhere.

I've also started working on some prelim work for the Ynel novel. I don't know if I'm going to work on Short Stories for Ynel I have a few in mind but again not sure. I know I won't be continuing the Ynel stories beyond what I write in the start: meaning after I podcast the Ynel novel I won't be continuing to write stories for it like the Imonoran Empire.

Also I'm done with prelim work for the first novel in Urkia Quadrilogy. At the moment though I don't know if I am going to work on the Urkia Quadrilogy or Ynel novel first.

So there is lot of Updates for you, more than just Lost Falchion.

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RB