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5 years ago
Saturday's update was kinda bland, I'll admit. It's just the setup for the frame story which will come in three installments. The last one actually has Chass fight. You may or may not have noticed that he doesn't do that very often. When you're 8'4", you don't have to fight very often. You just have show that you're willing to fight. :) If you're an 8'4" vykati pirate, It's even optional to show you're willing to fight. You'll notice in what I call the game timeline, Sajani doesn't fight at all. She'll square off against Sestus in a later book though.
Anyway. You'll see the next two updates from the frame story and then I have a couple of deleted scenes I'll post. As I was going through helping on the editing of Fugitive's Trust I noticed that something kind of weird was accidentally left in (it might still be there in the final version, we'll see.) Farnsbeck goes looking for his spoon and pulls out what looks like a weird set of collapsed rings. That's a magic item from the Terah game setting. It's called a Grave Robber's Friend and it allows a person to see through walls and stuff. It got it's name for helping grave robbers see what coffins contained valuables. It was added for a scene that was later deleted. And you'll get to see that scene. Fans of Magenta and Farnsbeck will like it. It's a good scene, but it forced the story in a direction I didn't want to go. Kind of like half of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Don't forget to share links to the story. Kind notes sent was what got the publisher to reinstate my contract for the books. Did I ever even mention that? Oh well, if I didn't. The contract on A Ship Called Hope had a clause in it that allowed the publisher to suspend it based on the sales of Book 2. And to say that Book 2 didn't sell that well, is... putting it mildly. It sold half as many copies as book 1 even though, in my opinion, it's a lot more solvent than the first book. The publisher used that clause. He was very nice about it, and I'm not at all dissing him (especially since he does visit my page here periodically). Compliments about Fugitive's Trust is what got him to reinstate it, but at the same time, the contract is only for what was A Ship Called Hope. So I still manage to get three books out of it (in part out of laziness. He didn't want to write up a whole new set of contracts, so simply made an addendum.) But he's been pretty clear that any future contracts are based solely on how well these three books do. Again, I can't blame him. I've done the only novels for the Terah world and since it's technically a game world, those are extra fluff and not considered vital.
Wow, that makes it all sound doom and gloom, but it's not really. The experience, with a good reference, opens up other writing opportunities, I just really like writing about Chass and Benayle. :)
So share links and stuff. Thanks. :)
Anyway. You'll see the next two updates from the frame story and then I have a couple of deleted scenes I'll post. As I was going through helping on the editing of Fugitive's Trust I noticed that something kind of weird was accidentally left in (it might still be there in the final version, we'll see.) Farnsbeck goes looking for his spoon and pulls out what looks like a weird set of collapsed rings. That's a magic item from the Terah game setting. It's called a Grave Robber's Friend and it allows a person to see through walls and stuff. It got it's name for helping grave robbers see what coffins contained valuables. It was added for a scene that was later deleted. And you'll get to see that scene. Fans of Magenta and Farnsbeck will like it. It's a good scene, but it forced the story in a direction I didn't want to go. Kind of like half of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Don't forget to share links to the story. Kind notes sent was what got the publisher to reinstate my contract for the books. Did I ever even mention that? Oh well, if I didn't. The contract on A Ship Called Hope had a clause in it that allowed the publisher to suspend it based on the sales of Book 2. And to say that Book 2 didn't sell that well, is... putting it mildly. It sold half as many copies as book 1 even though, in my opinion, it's a lot more solvent than the first book. The publisher used that clause. He was very nice about it, and I'm not at all dissing him (especially since he does visit my page here periodically). Compliments about Fugitive's Trust is what got him to reinstate it, but at the same time, the contract is only for what was A Ship Called Hope. So I still manage to get three books out of it (in part out of laziness. He didn't want to write up a whole new set of contracts, so simply made an addendum.) But he's been pretty clear that any future contracts are based solely on how well these three books do. Again, I can't blame him. I've done the only novels for the Terah world and since it's technically a game world, those are extra fluff and not considered vital.
Wow, that makes it all sound doom and gloom, but it's not really. The experience, with a good reference, opens up other writing opportunities, I just really like writing about Chass and Benayle. :)
So share links and stuff. Thanks. :)
