Bane War Warlord Update
I’ve been writing the second book in the Bane War Series for almost two months now, and I’m about 60% done. Wanted to share a scene with twenty-one year old Dragan fighting a new creature with his twin sister, Syla. …
Author: Jeff Johnson
Software engineer and author
Bane War Fury Ebook Released!
I’m pleased to announce Bane Wary Fury is now on Amazon in ebook format. The physical copies need a few more weeks preparation and review, and should come out August 19th (Monday). I’m publishing under a pen name, Jeffer Nightwind, …
My Program for Creating a Book Cover
I spent an entire day fiddling with images, positioning them pixel perfect and finally got fed up, so I made a tool to do it. With this tool, you can take your cover’s back, spine, and front image and put …
Gamma Version Done
I found a great editor, Kristin Campbell, who scoured my text while giving super helpful feedback. My understanding of English has grown, along with my respect for editors. She was thorough, and found thousands of things needing tweaking or fixing. …
Bane War Fury Cover Animation
Anastiasiia crafted a beautiful cover animation for my first book. Watch Saffa unleash the pain on this bad guy. That’ll teach him! My editor is working on the book right now, and I’m hoping to have it ready for release …
Scrivener Hacks
I’ve put together a bunch of VBA macros for Microsoft Word that work around numerous longstanding bugs in Scrivener, or other common scenarios, like removing two or more spaces between sentences, trimming paragraphs, that sort of thing. I hope it …
Beta Version Done!
Three beta readers braved my book and came out unscathed. My new word count is a hefty 206k. I’m now working with an editor who also specializes in developmental/content optimization, and hope to have this process complete by end of …
We have a map of Yava!
Kate Vishnyakova has crafted a beautiful masterpiece, lifting my writing with her creative skill.
Series Name Change
I originally based my series name off Nightwind, the nation Saffa is from. But this doesn’t quite capture the scope of the universe I’m building, hence I’ve renamed the series to Bane War. This better encapsulates the epic conflict these …
Nightwind Fury Alpha Version Done
I got it done a few days ago. It feels so good to have accomplished such a large feat. I started writing the novel nine months ago, and seeing it in a complete form is thrilling. I’m working with beta …