Tales From a Thousand Worlds
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Happy New Year
Posted by on January 2, 2017
Happy New Year to all.
Yes, I am still around. This place isn’t dead yet and will be starting up again soon.
After the excitement of NaNo, I plunged into the madness of December and of holidays. I am currently still visiting family and won’t be home for a couple more weeks. That means reduced writing time and internet access to even do much with.
The good news is I have a number of new short fiction ready and waiting to go, including Kwaza, Slave, the final instalment in The Chronicles of the White Bull, two new Cahuac Cycle stories – Cahuac and the Fisherman and The Seven Sons of Cahuac, the next instalment in the Sir Richard Hammerman Adventures, called The Hammer and the Detective, as well as working on a new Ray the Robot story and a new, unnamed horror/weird story.
There are also a number more Deeds of Peregrine and Blade stories either in the words, or complete, including the 25,000 word The Heart of Forever novella and the 18,000 word The Curse of the Black Lights novella.
November Hiatus
Posted by on November 12, 2016
As may have been noticed, I have been a tad quiet so far this month. The reason for that is NaNoWriMo.
I have attempted it a number of times previous, with no success, but this year I am determined to succeed. So far it is going well – I’m on track and still have ideas to get down.
I will be adding a couple of posts soon I hope, to conclude the two current ongoing stories – The Sleepers in the Marsh and In The Lair of the Bloody Handed. Plus, after the nanowrimo story is completed and tidied up some, I hope to share it as well.
Coming Up Next
Posted by on July 21, 2016
With both Nights of Fire and The City in Shadows having finished, we will be moving on to the next stories.
The City on Shadows will be followed by the eight Peregrine and Blade story, entitled Dreams of Days to Come. A dark and terrible power has arisen in the jungles to the south of Metsheput, bringing with it death and destruction. At the behest of the Metsheputi Queen, Peregrine and Blade travel to confront the darkness before it brings ruin to all.
Nights of Fire will be followed by the second of the comedic sci-fi Ray the Robot stories. In Ray and the Alien Princesses, Ray’s hapless master Brian is on the run from NavCorp for, among other things, Grand Theft Starship and impersonating a robot. Crash landing on an alien planet, he finds it is inhabited by a bevy of green skinned alien princesses who desire his help. Ray is less than convinced of their designs and once more has to save his master, whether he desires it or not.
A Bonus Post and a New Story
Posted by on June 2, 2016
With the completion of Hammer of the Pygmies, a new Wednesday story will be starting, this one being Nights of Fire, the sixth in the Chronicles of the White Bull collection, continuing on with the journey of Nhaqosa.
Given the brevity of the last entry for Hammer of the Pygmies, I have decided that later on today I will post the first entry for Nights of Fire to make up for it.
Web Fiction Guide Listing
Posted by on May 31, 2016
I have just had this blog listed over at Web Fiction Guide, a collection of links to other webfiction, as well as reviews. Tales From A Thousand Worlds has its own listing there, where readers can recommend it, rate it and even leave reviews.
As part of the Web Fiction Guide is a link on Top Web Fiction, where the collection can be voted for weekly.
About Echo of the Ages
Posted by on May 22, 2016
As I have just started the Echo of the Ages of the serial, I felt I should discuss it a little, of how it is structured and what it is all about.
Echo the Ages is a sprawling epic fantasy, with all that that entails. Added to this is a lot of delving into ruins and tombs for lost relics and treasures, as that is what the starting POV character, Kathri, does for a living.
As for the structure of the story, it is in the form of a serial. For comparison, consider a TV series that has lasted several seasons, one with an overarching plot that encompasses the length of the series.. Each book in the series is the equivalent of a single season, with an ongoing arc. Each part is like a single episode. It ties in with the arc mostly, but the events within it are mostly solved by the end of the part. The chapters are like scenes in the episode. Hopefully that makes sense.
The Upcoming Schedule
Posted by on May 21, 2016
With the start of Echo of the Ages, it is time to announce the schedule for futures posts. I will still be sticking to three posts a week, with the schedule for each of them as follows;
Saturday: Echo of the Ages. Echo of the Ages is a long term project, seeing as how it is a sprawling epic fantasy, with all that entails. It will be the main focus of the site for now, and certainly have the longest posts. For now it will be one day a week, though that may change depending on how it goes and how much of a backlog I can build up.
Monday: The Deeds of Peregrine and Blade. The story of Peregrine and Blade is far from complete. So far we are up to the sixth story of their collection. I have another eight that have been completed and are ready to go, and eight more besides them in various states of being written. Even once they are done the series will continue on for as long as I have the ideas and people enjoy it.
Wednesday: Various. Wednesdays will be for other stories, whether standalone or ones drawn from other series.
Upcoming Schedule
Posted by on February 21, 2016
With The Sign of the Bronze Hammer, the third Peregrine and Blade short fiction story finished, it is time to reveal what is coming up, and of some changes to the schedule I am planning to make.
The three time a week schedule will continue as before but with some changes to what is posted.
Mondays will be devoted to The Deeds of Peregrine and Blade, with the next story in the series, Rats in the City, starting soon.
On Wednesdays will be a variety of different stories from different collections and genres, with next in line being a steampunk story called Hammer of the Pygmies.
Saturdays will see a new project start, an ongoing episodic serial called The Echo of Ages – part epic fantasy, part adventure archaeology.
A New Year and a New Start
Posted by on January 7, 2016
A new year is upon us, again. Despite the best of intentions, towards the end of last year things sort of fell away with regards to updating the stories here. The good news is that I will shortly begin posting them again. First up it to complete Legion of the Sands and then we will commence two more – the next in The Chronicles of the White Bull, entitled Nights of Fire, and the third in the Peregrine and Blade collection, called The Sign of the Bronze Hammer.
Apologies
Posted by on November 10, 2015
Apologies for the lack of updates of recent. It hasn’t been for lack of interest or of actual material, but of time to sit down and organise the posts. Hopefully that will change soon and I can get back on schedule.
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