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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.
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.
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.
Coming Soon
Posted by on August 3, 2015
Both of the current stories, Wisdom From The Ashes and Daughter of the Windswept Hills, are drawing close to their ends.
Replacing Wisdom From The Ashes is the next in The Chronicles of the White Bull series, Legion of the Sands, an 8200 word novelette.
Following on from Daughter of the Windswept Hills is the next Deeds of Peregrine and Blade sword and sorcery story, an almost 18000 word novella which introduces the other member of the due, Blade, entitled The Red Blade.
Notes on the The Cahuac Cycle
Posted by on July 19, 2015
The Cahuac Cycle has its origins many years ago, back in the late 90s. I was taking part in an online shared world building game. Each of us took control of a stone age tribe in various parts of the world and told the story of what happened to them, as they slowly went from palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, settling down and discovering advances such as farming, weaving, domestication of animals and more. We got into the early bronze age from memory. As part of the game, I told a story about Cahuac and his battle with the sun. It was written in such a manner as if it had been told by an oral storyteller from the days before a written language.
Quite a few years later, when working on one of the worlds I’ve written in, I took that old story and worked it into it, as part of the history. I then added three more short stories to flesh it out further, adding other myths and legends of the deeds of Cahuac.
I have recently started to add some more to them again. One, Cahuac and the Fisherman, has been finished, another, The Seven Sons of Cahuac, has almost been finished and two more, yet to be named, have been planned. After they have all been written and tidied up, they will join the first four on the site.
And Now For Something Different
Posted by on June 25, 2015
For the next four Wednesdays, I will be posting up something a little different than the current selection of stories. Each post will be a short story of between one to two thousand words that form the The Cahuac Cycle. In time there will be more stories in the collection, though they are as of yet not written.
These are fantasy, but not your typical fantasy – they are mythic fantasy from the dawn of time, tales from a people called the Aracan about their greatest ancestor-hero, Cahuac, his adventures and how the world came to be as it is.
The first four stories are Cahuac and the Sun, The Bowl of Storms, Cahuac and the Bees and Wolf and the Stars
Coming Up Next
Posted by on June 4, 2015
With Echoes of Dark Reflections now having finished, it is time to start the next stories. In this case I will be running two different stories at the same time. One is the next in The Chronicles of the White Bull, called Wisdom from the Ashes.
The second will be the first story from The Deeds of Peregrine and Blade, a sword and sorcery series very much in the manner of the pulps of old. The first story in this rather large collection is a novelette entitled Daughter of the Windswept Hills, which will be followed by the novella length The Red Blade.
The schedule for the moment is to have The Chronicles of the White Bull run on Monday and Wednesday, while The Deeds of Peregrine and Blade will be on Saturdays.
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