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This is the official Scarlet Shadow blog, updated by Ashton Marten himself. Here you can find information about the book, the author, and future projects.
Book Launch today!
Today I, with some help from the FBLA club at my school, hosted a book launch in our school library. It's an event we've been planning for the past month or so, and today it finally happened. There was a decent turnout of ~70-100 people, and we made about thirty sales (and ran out of stock). Footage was taken of the entire event, from the intro, to a reading of the excerpt, to an interview and finally the signing itself. I have many people to thank for the tremendous success we achieved here today, namely the people already listed in the acknowledgements section of The Scarlet Shadow, plus all the volunteers from FBLA, yearbook, and Mr. G's ceramics class (plus many more–too many to list here). Footage from the event will be edited and uploaded shortly. Thank you all for your support!
To the left (above on mobile) is a photograph of Ashton Marten, posing with his book and a cake (courtesy of Mrs. Cathy Zaharris) prior to the start of the book signing event.Hardcover and eBook available now!
Well technically, they were available a few days ago, it just took me a while to announce it here. All three formats are now available to buy if you're interesed, plus Chapters 1 and 2 (Frostburns Freeze / To Find a Killer) are available to read for free on this site or on Amazon. The prices for the various formats are as follows:
eBook 2.99
Paperback 13.50
Hardcover 22.99
The paperback price is a little weird, I know. I had the price of thirteen dollars in mind, but due to some last-minute reformatting, the minimum price of the book was raised to 13.41. So instead of making the price fourteen dollars, I made it thirteen-fifty. Sorry if that bugs you, it kinda bugs me too.
TL;DR: The Scarlet Shadow is available to buy on Amazon. Just click the link if you're interested.
To the right (below on mobile) is a sketch of the Scarlet Shadow drawn by Sierra Cancel. Here's her instagram if you'd like to see more of her art.
Paperback Published Today!
The paperback edition of The Scarlet Shadow was officially approved by Amazon today, and is now available to view on the site. As of yet it is still marked as unavailable, but I've been informed that this should change soon. As soon as that happens, I'll be ordering some copies to sell at my first book signing, which is happening on the sixteenth of February.
It's been a long and tumultuous journey, but I'm finally getting there. Pretty soon people will be able to buy this thing. Hopefully all goes well. I'm sure it will. At most, I'm hoping that plenty of people get the opportunity to read my book, and I'm certain they'll enjoy it.
To the left (above on mobile) is a painting of the original cover art, made by Ashton Marten.
