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Aug 15
Posted: under snippet, the writing life.
Tags: snippet, the writing life August 15th, 2010
From Kings of the North…
Location: Chaya, the Royal Ossuary. POV: King Kieri Phelan
Situation: Kieri’s become aware of something mysterious and troubling interfering with his attempt to bring elves and humans closer together. He has visited the ossuary before, and had some disturbing hints. Now he’s there again…
Jul 19
Posted: under Kings of the North, snippet.
Tags: Background, characters, snippet July 19th, 2010
In honor of Amazon having it listed for pre-order, here’s another Kings of the North snippet. This one introduces some new characters, all young. Location: Verrakai House in Vérella. Dorrin has squires, who have just arrived to begin their service with her. They are leaving for the country the next day. The squires are Beclan Mahieran (the king’s cousin and younger brother of Rothlin), Gwennothlin Marrakai ( younger sister of Juris Marrakai), and Daryan Serrostin (younger brother of Rolyan Serrostin)…all dukes’ offspring, in other words.
May 18
Posted: under Kings of the North, snippet, the writing life.
Tags: Contents, progress report, snippet, the writing life May 18th, 2010
Another snippet from Kings of the North today. This may be one I posted in an earlier draft last year, but as someone said, there are people new to the place who probably don’t want to hunt through the archives for everything I said back then. As before, there may be mild spoilers incorporated, so if you’re spoiler-averse, don’t read beyond the break.
May 11
Posted: under Contents, Kings of the North, snippet.
Tags: Contents, snippet May 11th, 2010
With thanks for your patience in the past week as I worked on the copy edits, here’s a snippet (again, if you don’t want any spoilers at all, don’t read beyond the “read more” link.) This is maybe 1/5 to 1/4 of the way through the book.
May 03
Posted: under snippet, the writing life.
Tags: Contents, snippet, the writing life May 3rd, 2010
Here’s a snippet from Kings of the North. Location: Vérella, the Verrakai city house. Time: Day after coronation of the young king. Present: Dorrin Duke Verrakai, the Marshal-General of Gird, the new Marshal-Judicar of Tsaia, another Marshal.
If you totally, absolutely, do not want any spoilers at all–including zero idea that something might happen after this of plot-significance–don’t read past the break.
Jan 26
Posted: under Contents.
Tags: Contents, snippet January 26th, 2010
This close to the release date, it’s only fair to give you a snippet you’ll soon be seeing in context. In fact, two separated by only a paragraph or two in the book itself. They’re both about horses, and one has Paks as seen from the outside, not as POV. Read the rest of this entry »
Jan 11
Posted: under Contents.
Tags: Contents, snippet January 11th, 2010
Going back to book one, now Oath of Fealty, because we’re approaching the 2-months-to-pub data. Travel times, in Paksenarrion’s world, mean that news travels very slowly indeed. The new group overlaps the end of Oath of Gold by some days, for that reason. People act on what they know or think they know–and they don’t act on knowledge they can’t have for another five or ten or fifteen days.
So the very first small bit of Oath of Fealty is set on the night Kieri Phelan begins his journey to the east…and the snippet you’re about to see begins the story proper, a little later–the time it takes for a courier to get from Vérella to the Duke’s Stronghold. Read the rest of this entry »
Jan 09
Posted: under Contents.
Tags: progress report, snippet, the writing life January 9th, 2010
Lyonya. The rest should be obvious. This is early in Book Three but should not contain any terrible spoilers other than the king is fighting, which you probably suspected would happen at some point
. Obviously, first draft.
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Kieri shifted his weight; Banner shortened into collection and half-pass in counter-canter, bringing Kieri directly to one of those in mid-change. Kieri’s sword-stroke took the creature across the middle, splitting a still-soft carapace. On the backswing he took the second. Even as he looked back, Banner snorted and changed leads, swinging his hindquarters around.
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Jul 15
Posted: under Contents.
Tags: characters, Contents, snippet July 15th, 2009
Just to return to where we are, sort of…
Location: Chaya, in Lyonya, the day after Kieri arrives. He has gone to see his cohort in the inn where they’re housed.
Jul 15
Posted: under Contents.
Tags: snippet July 15th, 2009
I’m first-drafting on the third book now, while doing revisions on the second, and something’s come up that you’ll see hints of in the second book. But I don’t think it’s a spoiler, really….more like storm clouds on the horizon. (I’ve tried converting the selection from Word to .txt, but Word being Word can’t be sure all the formatting’s really gone, so there may be a fast edit following to remove it in WordPress…I can’t see the stuff until it’s published. )
Location: northeastern Tsaia
Cracolnya is reporting to Arcolin about some unexpected visitors.
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