by Jeremy | Jan 8, 2015 | Akon's Mission, Books
Great news! My next novel, Akon’s Mission has been accepted to the new Kindle Scout program. Here’s the lowdown on Kindle Scout: Akon’s Mission will have 30 days to earn nominations from readers. If it gets enough nominations, and Amazon likes it,...
by Jeremy | Dec 10, 2014 | Akon's Mission, Books, Jeremy Brown | Author Blog
This is the map I created for Akon’s Mission as a visual guide for the layout of Sparta in 432 BC. Ancient Sparta wasn’t a city like Athens, which had a dense collection of buildings and citizens surrounded by a wall. Sparta was a loose group of five...
by Jeremy | Sep 22, 2014 | Akon's Mission, Books, Jeremy Brown | Author Blog
So I’m writing the first of hopefully many historical adventure novels about Akoniti of Sparta, and while there is plenty of information out there about the training, tactics, and warrior culture of Sparta, I keep bumping up against questions with elusive...
by Jeremy | Sep 15, 2014 | Akon's Mission, Books, Jeremy Brown | Author Blog
Here they are! The completed covers for Akon’s Mission, executed by the incredibly talented Dean Stolpmann. There may be some tweaks to the font color depending on how it looks in the Amazon store, but I’m very pleased with the results. The cover does a...
by Jeremy | Aug 2, 2014 | Akon's Mission, Building a Book Cover
Here is the latest artwork from the great Dean Stolpmann for the cover of Akon’s Mission. Dean was very considerate to send the full image as well as how it looks so far on a CreateSpace template, and I am very pleased with how it’s turning out. Here is...