Ten Years...
Announcing a brand new self-published book! The Diamond Dimensions: Volume 4.5: Tales from the Void: Anniversary Edition is a sci-fi/fantasy short story collection (plus essay) available for Kindle pre-order starting today, with a paperback on the way for its special date of November 22nd! I am so excited to share this with the world!
From the book’s description:
Ten years ago I met DanTDM and it changed my life forever...
Celebrate ten years of Harvey Hamer's Diamond Dimensions Universe with this Anniversary Edition of The Diamond Dimensions: Volume 4.5: Tales from the Void! Containing revamped versions of the original eleven short stories, focussing on characters from Trayaurus and Denton to Far the pigman and The Watcher, this collection resurrects the lost book of twenty-two in this multiverse of narratives. It features content cut from the omnibus volumes, two reading order timelines for the whole universe, an exclusive behind the scenes piece of fiction and an essay on a decade of writing about Dan. Discover my inspirations for writing the first volume and all that followed, relive my six experiences meeting Dan and learn the joys and hardships of working on this universe from age twelve to eighteen, and beyond.
TALES FROM THE VOID: In these pages are many untold stories, gathered from space and time. They span many dimensions and eras from The Twilight Forest to The Iron Overworld and beyond. All of them are crucial to the lives of influential people throughout the history of all dimensions in existence. Some follow the story of Daniel Middleton and his friends, whilst others take place many years before he ever became stranded in The Diamond Dimensions.
This novelisation is based on a Minecraft gameplay series by the YouTube sensation known as DanTDM. It is made purely out of a fan’s appreciation but with Dan's permission.
Here’s a link to the book’s Amazon page (which hopefully automatically works for different countries…).
But here’s the scoop, just for you newsletter readers:
This book was a long time coming, and yet also only a recent whim. I’m announcing it today on Dan Middleton’s thirty-third birthday. Which means he was freshly twenty-three when I first met him on November 22nd 2014, aged twelve, with the first three chapters of my first book in my hands as a gift. If you scroll through the archives of this newsletter, you’ll find the carried-over posts that chronicles my whole writing journey, and explain the six photos on the cover, taken 2014-2017.
Neither I nor Dan had any idea what would come of his continued support of my writing, novelising his videos and characters and beyond. But this book feels like a celebration of that twist of fate, and a thank you to him and so many others who inspired me. It also serves, as I state in the description, to revive this lost book.
I released twenty-two books in my Diamond Dimensions Universe, a multiverse really, told across three main series that interwove and crafted a timeline spanning centuries and at least fifty worlds. Starting April 2021, I released four omnibus volumes, collecting everything in chronological order, and so containing the short stories which initially made up Volume 4.5: Tales from the Void.
But the initial book can no longer be found online, so with this special Anniversary Edition re-release, I’m hoping to fill that gap in collections. I’ve updated the stories slightly, and included all the bonus content. The short piece of fiction and essay won’t be released anywhere else, which I think is a nice way to commemorate over ten years of writing about DanTDM.
April next year will celebrate ten years of me actually being (self-)published, pushing my first volume of The Diamond Dimensions out there to some success. Volume 4.5’s seven year anniversary was actually last month. But celebrating the day my trajectory actually changed forever seems worthwhile. A decade. I’m twenty-two, the same age Dan was when I started watching his videos.
That’s the video which actually documents the moments after our meeting. You can read much more behind the scenes here.
I know most of my subscribers here aren’t particularly fans of DanTDM or Minecraft, but if you’d like a snapshot into the stories I was telling aged twelve-eighteen, there’s no better book than this collection of short stories. It’s a love letter to everything I achieved in those six nebulous years. And you’ll be supporting my first release in over three years! I’ve learnt a lot since my last book, but felt it would be appropriate to release this last hurrah to this universe in the same manner with Amazon.
Once again, here’s the link. Paperback coming on November 22nd. Cheers to the magical multiversal moon and back.
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Thanks so much,
Harvey