The idea is to have a book named after each of the nine realms(10 if we split the last one up in to two). It may not work out that way, but in my dreams, our execution is flawless and we are rich.
1. Intro of the characters and world. Damien for sure and other characters i have conceptualized scattered across aboden. the diverse placement is meant to give us a way to show what life is like and what the world looks like. Major plot events: Damien is tricked into weakening the barrier between worlds.
2. Angels join in actively and start trying to fix stuff, demons appear in larger numbers because of weakened border, cult hunter subplot introduced.
3. Ascended and techno-guild become actively involved, lots of demon fighting, forshadowing invasion.
4.flashbacks of the Second Demonic Invasion. Lots of history and exposition, Invasion begins
5. war on many fronts, alliances and diplomacy. looks bad, but then dragons return.
6.starts looking good... Ants invade and conquer most of the eastern continent. last chance ascended kill magic.
7. ascended revealed evil, forshadowing of the void without any real details, void terrorists. life without magic
8.Mass undead fighting, explanation of the universe via flashbacks and narration. crazy plan by Elf of the Deep
9.Final preperations, flood gates open, war with undead. War of ascension, final battle of the gods. Damien and Elf of the Deep meet the ancients. end with godhood and a mandate to reclaim the world from chaos.
It definetly needs more "meat" in some places, and the whole 9/10 books might be too ambitious. But if it works out, that would be cool.
I did some googling for info about authoring and found this:
Rick Horgan, Executive Editor of Crown, an imprint of Random House, was kind enough to break down those "elusive numbers," which end up sounding like a complicated high school math problem. Horgan estimated a distribution of 25,000 copies on an average commercial fiction launch for an author's debut novel in hardcover. The publishing house might announce 50,000 copies, but this is a "gross exaggeration because publishers always over-announce," Horgan says. Of those 25,000 copies, 65% will sell through with the remaining 35% in returns. To put it simply, if the publisher ended up selling roughly 15,000 copies, with the author making 15% in royalties on a $25 hardcover ($3.75 per book), that equates to about $50,000 in author earnings on a hardcover printing.
Many novels also have a paperback life. The formula Crown uses is half-half the distribution, half the author's royalty rate, at half the book's selling price. If the hardcover had a sell-through of 15,000 copies, the paperback run would be 7,500 to 10,000 paperbacks, either trade paper or mass market. The typical sell-through rate of trade paper is 70%. The typical royalty rate is 7.5% of $13.95 ($1 per book), making about $7,000 in profit for the author on the paperback run
7-50,000, depending on Hard cover or paper back. This is what you could expect to get with your first book. other works depend on how it goes.They give you the advance... in advance. and then if they make more than that, they start paying royalties. If we think for a moment, about a book on the higher end of the success scale, selling 1 million copies, that would be (in paperback)...1 million dollars in royalties! so all we have to do is sell a million copies of two books and we'd both be millionaires!
Just remembered that this isnt an email...
If series 1 does well, heres the basic idea of series 2
1. flashbacks of a war against chaos and taking back aboden immediately following the end of the last series. current times are 200 or so years later, Damien is losing it. thats it so far.
2. Stuff, Things! FIRE! Damien goes into exile to save Aboden/whole universe
3.More stuff, More Things! FIRE! Damien returns and...maybe is still crazy, not sure.