During last week’s release of King Mai I had quite a bit of fun blogging about the book and back story. In fact, I shared some stories about the nature of The Lost and Founds, where this series is headed, etc. In case you missed anything…here’s the good stuff.

On Joyfully Jay, I blogged about the structure of the first six books, why I’m writing them in such an odd fashion, and reassured folks that despite Vin’s current struggles, good things are coming his way.

http://joyfullyjay.com/2013/07/guest-post-and-giveaway-king-mai-by-edmond-manning.html.

On The Novel Approach, I blogged about the origins of the backstory to The Lost and Founds. The blog’s owner, Lisa, had asked me via email ‘where did the idea to all this come from?’ While there are multiple answers to that simple question, I picked one dimension, the historical and mythological roots, and answered that on her blog.

http://thenovelapproachreviews.com/2013/07/15/the-lost-and-the-founds-the-origins-by-edmond-manning/

Curious about the dedication inside the first few pages of King Mai? Well…satisfy your curiosity on the ManKind Project Journal. I ‘splained why that particular dedication and what it means to me. I told the story of my friend Joe, who early in our friendship told me one night, “I have a real problem with gay men.”

http://mankindprojectjournal.org/2013/07/to-all-my-mkp-brothers-especially-the-straight-ones/

Cole Riann, a lovely friend I met through King Perry, invited me to blog on his Armchair Reader. I wrote a piece about men opening their hearts – why it’s so hard for men to do so, and why sometimes we need ‘extra encouragement’ (trickery?) to get us to do a thing we want to do anyway but also terrifies us. A few folks who read it said that this helped them understand Vin’s random manipulations…

http://coleriann.com/2013/07/19/opening-a-mans-heart-a-guest-post-by-edmond-manning-giveaway/

Ooo – in case you missed my dramatic return to YouTube…here’s why King Mai would make a good book club book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OeN2xAMA1Q

Finally, if you would like to show up on goodreads and chat with me, guess what? You can haz!

I’m hanging out on Goodreads tomorrow, July 27th, from 1pm – 5pm CENTRAL STANDARD TIME. You follow this link, show up, and start asking questions. I’ll try to give some answers that didn’t come out in any of the blogs. Well, you know, without giving *too* much away about upcoming book secrets…

https://www.goodreads.com/event/show/897970-meet-the-author-edmond-manning

Thanks for reading!