Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

It is December, and as per usual, I took my usual four months break in-between posting on this blog! My last update was in August, so here’s a brief ‘what’s up’ on New Years Eve!

Over the past four months I have been working on a variety of things. Progress on The Knight of Iaddash audio project continues. Cory and I are hoping to launch its Kickstarter around next April. And we have some cool rewards for our supporters.

Plushie Power!

One of the rewards I really enjoyed working on was a Euthymeo stuffed animal. One of my friends heard that I was looking for someone who could make plushies and told me that his mother-in-law liked to knit. So we have been working together to make this really adorable Euthymeo plush that I am more than pleased with! He is so adorable.

You should hear more regarding this plushie and the Kickstarter in the coming months so stay tuned! In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this picture of me with Euthymeo! It was so unreal holding him in my hands!

Cover Art?!?

Additionally, work on the sequel of the Knight of Iaddash is going smoothly. Aside from the cover art, the last major step will be reading over the manuscript one final time to make sure I don’t have any surprise grammar errors before ordering my proof copies.

Speaking of cover art: the sequel’s cover will be a little different and was painted by hand using watercolors! The artist I chose for this book will be revealed soon, but he was one of my teachers in elementary school and it was such an honor working with him on this project! I am extremely pleased with how it turned out and I look forward to revealing the front and back cover soon! I guess better finished writing the blurb!

Everything Else…

Outside of the usual, KOI prep work, I have been getting a lot of writing done in the recent months. I may have gone a little overboard and written a rough draft of about 1 1/2 books over October and November. I also wrote about 3/4th of a separate book earlier in the year. It’s a long road ahead for each of these stories but I hope you’ll be able to read them eventually. It has been good to write for fun once again. Sometimes I forget that it’s nice to just treat writing like a hobby.

I’ve also been doing some thinking. I think it would be advantageous for me to use my social media more to promote my books. Specifically the Knight of Iaddash which is the one I am the most excited to share with everybody. Did you know I have an instagram account. No? Sometimes I forget too! Feel free to follow it if you’d like (It’s called KABechtel). I also think it would be neat to start a YouTube channel as well, but if I do that I might use that more for Bible Study content. Maybe Bible & Books? I don’t know. I have a hard enough time updating my blog, so I wouldn’t expect anything just yet.

Other random things! If you like Bible related content, you might like the book of poems I wrote. It’s called Poems for the Redeemed Heart. It is currently only available on Amazon. (Link right here!)

And as usual, if you’re interested in reading The Knight of Iaddash before its sequel hits the shelves you can find it on Amazon, Barnes and Nobles, and (drum roll) it is now available on Apple Books as well!

Anyways, thank you all for listening to my rambles, you will definitely hear from me sooner than later because I’ve got some covers to share!

Grace and Peace,

Kenny