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Early sign ups are open for the Halfblood Chronicles crowd-funding campaign. Get brand new deluxe editions of the classic trilogy, Elvenborn, Elvenbane, and Elvenblood, by Andre Norton and Misty as well as the newest book in the series: Elvenbred by Misty and Ben Ohlander.

In addition to the deluxe edition campaign, new ebooks and trade editions of all four books will soon be available at all major retailers from Arc Manor publishing.

The official Backerkit launch for the Deluxe leather-bound edition of the Heralds of Valdemar trilogy (Arrows of the Queen, Arrow’s Flight, and Arrow’s Fall) goes live on June 2nd. There are only a few days left to sign up for the pre-launch special, where making a $5.00 reservation will get you a $25 discount on the book, as well as an immediate free download of the second song release from the "Music of Valdemar" album that is currently in production.

The Deluxe Heralds omnibus is designed to be a beautiful companion piece to the Deluxe Grandmaster collection. At 700 pages Deluxe Heralds is quite a bit thicker than the Grandmaster book, but like Grandmaster it is beautifully bound in leather with silver and metallic blue designs and painted edges. And just like Grandmaster, Heralds will have eight pages of brand new art by talented artists including Care Halverson, Nene Thomas, Rob Carlos, Dasha Park, and more.

And as an extra special treat for you we also have a sneak peak at new art from the book: the new painting of Talia and Rolan by Nene Thomas!

As we are ramping up for the launch of the Deluxe Heralds of Valdemar campaign we wanted to do something fun for the fan community! The Deluxe Heralds will include new original artwork by various artists just as Grandmaster did, and we have three pieces of Companion line-art by Care Halverson that you can download, color, and share. Submit your finished piece to the Companion Coloring Gallery on Backerkit and the community will vote for their favorites. We welcome everyone to join in, have fun, and flex your artistic skills.

Our favorite broody Herald-mage is back for his first full length novel in over thirty years! Vanyel Ashkevron must team up with the equally formidable Healer Vixen to unravel a mystery across the border in the lawless free-zone between Valdemar and Rethwellan. Together Vanyel and Vixen have dealt with bandits, monsters, and even giant spiders, but will they be able to figure out what is happening in the south? Random attacks, both magical and mundane are happening with no apparent pattern and it will take all of their combined skills and Gifts to find out what is causing this crisis.

Available for preorder now on all major retailers.

With that, we’ll close out our third official newsletter. Stay in touch and we’ll have more to share soon!

Misty, Larry, and the support team.