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… And it’s almost two and a half months yet to Halloween!
So I finally nerved myself to go over the contracts for The Dinosaur Lords. (I admit I was giving in to fear some, here – a habit I am working diligently to break, and making fine progress overall. Still, obviously I am still no [...]
Listen up, my beloved friends and readers!
I have just accepted an offer from Tor Books to buy a little thing I like to call The Ballad of Karyl’s Last Quest: A Romance in Three Volumes.
And you know what that means.
You’re more used to seeing me refer to it by the title of Volume the [...]
In which I finish an epic fantasy-novel draft in epif fashion, and contemplate a glorious future.
Okay, my loyal Dinosaur Army, yesterday I tantalized and tormented you with the senses-shattering Prologue for my fantasy epic, The Dinosaur Lords.
(You did read it, yes? If not, you really, really want to click here and go read it now. Really. We’ll wait.)
Now we roll the story proper with Chapter 01.
In which we introduce Rob [...]
Passions, dynasties, and armies of dinosaur-mounted knights collide in the glittering, feather-decked Empire of Nuevaropa. When a Grey Angel, servant of the Eight Creators of the world called Paradise, launches a genocidal Crusade of a hundred thousand soulless zealots, can a fallen hero, a scoundrel, a philosopher-warrior, and an outlawed princess possibly stop them?
THE DINOSAUR LORDS, my epic (in every way) fantasy novel, has gone out into the world!
I wrote those sweet and wondrous words: The End.
I just wrote The End to the big rewrite of my epic fantasy novel, THE DINOSAUR LORDS.
Hooray! The contracts for my Seekrit Projekt just came in the mail!
So it’s finally official. I’ll be writing a fantasy trilogy based on the ___ ________, from _______ ______ _____.
The blanks can be filled in on or shortly after the first weekend in August, when certain announcements are made at ___ ___.
Full disclosure.
[...]
What’s the point of writing a fantasy novel with dinosaurs if you can’t make toy dinosaurs fight? None at all!
Needed a way to rearrange scenes on rewrite. Got one – for now!
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Credits: Contents copyright 2009 by the creators. Header dinosaur art courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Thanks!
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