Excerpts
Excerpt – Untitled WIP Novel
Chapter 1 of the current work in progress, about a woman who can travel to infinite worlds by using shadows. Evelyn “Even” Lynch is a shade running thief who brings items from other worlds in the infinite cosmos back to her home world of Ash to sell on the black market. Now, though, the entire infinite universe is threatened by a plot that begins to unravel before her while she’s exploring a world called Terra, taking the identity of a masked vigilante called “The Darkness.” Chapter 1 The orange glow of the rocket pack receded across the city and the Darkness followed. The rocketeer moved faster than any aeroplane, but that wasn’t a...
Read MoreExcerpt: Word War I Novel
The World War I fantasy novel is progressing nicely now. I’m still working on a proper title for it, but it’ll be something to do with Green/Steel nations, a World at War, etc. Maybe sub-title each book. “The Steel and the Green (Book I): The Fallen Veil”. Something like that. It’ll come in time I’m sure and isn’t necessary right now. The Germans are ready to cross the border into France, but have been held up by a raging forest fire that sweeps across the forest that grew under the former Veil, that magical mist that once separated the Green nations from the Steel nations. Now that the Veil is gone, Germany plans to invade to...
Read MoreExcerpt from “Summer”
Chapter I from my fantasy novel, SUMMER, which is complete at 108,000 words. Part I – June God offers us yearly a necklace of twelve pearls; most men choose the fairest, label it June, and cast the rest away. ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1 – Ernesto promised his Memorial Day Moose Bash and Squirrel Buffet would be a magical kick off to summer, so I drove two hours from Baltimore to have a good time. Ernesto didn’t disappoint, either. He placed a huge stuffed moose near the front gate and hung a squirrel piñata from the elm tree in his back yard. Something felt odd and disjointed about the combination, though. Orange with apple, coal with snow, Memorial...
Read MoreMirabel Sinclair – Excerpt from Chapter 1
An excerpt from chapter one of the completed novel, Shadow of a Doubt, a standalone novel with series potential. Chapter One I woke to a ringing phone, the room pitch black, my thoughts tangled in the remnant cobwebs of sleep. I considered ignoring it and going back to bed. But I’d never learned how to ignore that sound, even when it barked at me in the middle of the night. It didn’t help my mood that I had to run downstairs to answer it. “Hello,” I said, half awake. Exhaustion prevented me from hiding my anger at whoever had interrupted my chance to collar a nod. “Lucky’s dead,” my boss said. His voice sounded tinny over the phone line static. I blinked...
Read MoreWorld at War – Prologue
The re-write of my new WWI alternate reality novel is progressing. I’ve gotten three new books now for research and am drawing as much as possible from real world history to build the dual fantasy/technology world of 1915 in the book. Here is the first draft of the prologue for those who might be interested, drawing directly from the original event that flashed the world into the Great War, the assassination of Arch-duke Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie. Prologue The crowds were boisterous and loud, surging around Gavrilo as he fingered the pistol in his pocket, thrusting his elbows out to his sides like the wings of a bird to keep from being jostled. His...
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