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Blog refresh!

Wednesday, November 18th, 2020

Apologies if you’ve seen things moving around lately, I was busy working on refreshing the looks of this journal to better match it to the latest freylia.net / raphaelrelat.net iterations.

The old look served me well but was becoming dated, being the last remnant of what freylia.net looked like back in… 2016 I think! Overall I didn’t change much of the structure though, it is mostly simply a cosmetic refresh with updated links.

I took the opportunity to rename the blog too. Yes, I like puns. :p

Anyway, this is done, for the time being. Back to writing, passed 32K on my 2020 NaNoWriMo effort, bringing “The Kerguelen Cat” along towards what I think will be a very satisfying conclusion. But I can’t say more for now!

Stay shiny!

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Introducing… “Planes of Ascalon”

Tuesday, October 27th, 2020

A glimpse into the companion piece I’ve been working on for “The Dragon Run”: “Planes of Ascalon”, an illustrated booklet with more info on the planes featured or mentioned in the story. A little nugget for all of you aviation geeks!

Available November 1st for free, here on my website!

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Goodies

Sunday, October 25th, 2020

D-7 and something’s afoot in the design corner…

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Drum roll please…!

Wednesday, June 24th, 2020

Time for some exciting announcements!

First, I’m overjoyed to announce that The Dragon Run finally got a release date! The Kindle edition is now available for pre-order on Amazon, with a paperback version to follow very soon.

Links:
Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BLHDJQV/
Amazon.co.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08BLHDJQV/
Amazon.fr: https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B08BLHDJQV/
Amazon.es: https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B08BLHDJQV/

When will it be ready? Well, I’m glad you asked! The book will be released November 1st, 2020!

Secondly, a book would be nothing without… a cover! And it is my immense pleasure to share with you the TDR cover below:

The bold yet minimalist style is meant to call back to the golden age of pulp spy/adventure stories. What do you think? Does it work?

Finally, as part of the redesign that I mentioned in my previous post, I’m sharing today the launch of my dedicated author website, www.raphaelrelat.net:

This new site will become the main hub for writing-related news, release dates and updates on the Ascalon Circle series and other works. Hope to see you there!

Well, that’s all I got for you today. Hope the post-lockdown is going well for everyone and until next time!

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Refresh, Q1 2017 edition

Tuesday, February 7th, 2017

Following the closure of freylia studios as a commercial entity, freylia.net is now back online after a slight cleanup.
The homepage remains fairly empty at the moment as I’m not quite decided on what to put on it yet (or even how to call it), but the legacy photo galleries and portfolio have been restored.

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