The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart
August 1, 2013 5:24 PM Subscribe
The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart
A fun piratey ebook serial and treasure hunt! Puzzles! Swashbuckling! Carnivorous mermaids! The Royal German Marinological Society! Ridiculous amounts of chocolate!
I did a Kickstarter earlier in the year to launch this project, funded, and now we've set sail! Every month, I'm putting out a short ebook about one of Lucy Smokeheart's adventures, including a puzzle you can solve online to get a little extra information about the story (but the puzzles are crazy hard, sorry about that). Three episodes are now out, with number four coming a couple of weeks from now. There will be twelve episodes in total. Exciting!
The point of this project was to get away from the gritty, realistic, dark aesthetic of Game of Thrones and its ilk. Remember back when Hercules and Xena were on, and how didn't take themselves too seriously? Also: feminism!
Lucy Smokeheart is not explicitly written with children in mind. That said, readers keep telling me their child/little cousin/niece or nephew also like Lucy, so... you know... there's that.
The ebooks are 99 cents, but shhhh, if you send me MeMail I will happily give you a secret link to the first episode for free in multiple non-DRM formats. Because I like you, is why. (I'd put the link in here, but I think it's a violation of Amazon's Terms of Service. Alas!)
A fun piratey ebook serial and treasure hunt! Puzzles! Swashbuckling! Carnivorous mermaids! The Royal German Marinological Society! Ridiculous amounts of chocolate!
I did a Kickstarter earlier in the year to launch this project, funded, and now we've set sail! Every month, I'm putting out a short ebook about one of Lucy Smokeheart's adventures, including a puzzle you can solve online to get a little extra information about the story (but the puzzles are crazy hard, sorry about that). Three episodes are now out, with number four coming a couple of weeks from now. There will be twelve episodes in total. Exciting!
The point of this project was to get away from the gritty, realistic, dark aesthetic of Game of Thrones and its ilk. Remember back when Hercules and Xena were on, and how didn't take themselves too seriously? Also: feminism!
Lucy Smokeheart is not explicitly written with children in mind. That said, readers keep telling me their child/little cousin/niece or nephew also like Lucy, so... you know... there's that.
The ebooks are 99 cents, but shhhh, if you send me MeMail I will happily give you a secret link to the first episode for free in multiple non-DRM formats. Because I like you, is why. (I'd put the link in here, but I think it's a violation of Amazon's Terms of Service. Alas!)
Role: Writer
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Feel free to ping me if you'd like to chat about your own KS. I'm no guru, but if you can benefit from asking pointed questions about my experience I am of course happy to help!
posted by Andrhia at 5:31 PM on August 3, 2013