God Wills It!
Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
It’s another Wednesday and tis later than I would like.
Still, I should also like to keep my momentum.
Writing is about practice, see? While I should be getting words in my main efforts, these updates shall have to do to keep in fighting wind.
So, what’s up for Whatevs Wednesday?
Well, I should like to offer a review of something, Forgotten Ruin most likely, but I’m beat. So let’s look at some news items in our little thing shall we?
First up, the man, the myth, the legend, Blaine Pardoe, the man too based to be contained by BattleTech, has announced he’s starting a new project with Nick Cole and Jason Anspach’s WarGate imprint.
This new Land&Sea project is to be a Big Damn Trilogy of novels that is intended to lay the groundwork for a fictional universe with an attached tabletop wargame.
Wait, JD, isn’t that what you’re trying to do here?
Yep. Yes it is. Oh well, just goes to show that my -plans- dreams are not completely insane. No, they are plausible. This may sound counter-intuitive, but every entrepreneur type I have ever spoken at length has reaffirmed that competition in a space is good sign, that tells you that there is in fact a market for the thing. So, yeah, I am only encouraged by this, plus, this means new Occidental style Real Robot combat that is not BattleTech, at a time when I still have my fatwah against them for the vile and cowardly attack on /Our Guy/. Also, the aesthetic over at Land&Sea is going to be near future techno thriller, with giant robots. Which I can dig, but as yall know, my bag is fully Science Fantasy, so even when (yeah, only when, no if) my thing is a thing, there won’t be any toe-stepping anyway.
Also, make sure to sign up with WarGate to get in on the drawing for the free mini.
Next up, Alexander Hellene has started a Kickstarter to fund his third book in his Sword&Planet trilogy, The Final Home (Swordbringer Book III)
With the Global Union closing and Pysh in shambles, a bitter enemy may be humanity’s only hope. Garrett and Ghryxa lead an envoy to Kharvalar with a proposal for the High Lord: join forces to fight the Global Union or Yxakh will be doomed. But Kharvalar, besieged by lizardmen, giant serpents, and ancient foes from beyond the western wastes, has troubles of its own. Old enmities, prophecies fulfilled, and interstellar war collide in the explosive conclusion to The Swordbringer, with the fates of two planets hanging in the balance!
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The Swordbringer is my love letter to this forward-moving spirit, an homage to the sci-fi and fantasy tales that fire my imagination combined with other influences ranging from the action/adventure cartoons of my youth like Thundercats and Masters of the Universe and retro videogames like The Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy.
I took all of these things, threw them together, and added what the best books of all eras do, whether they be by Burroughs, Vance, and Howard; Herbert, Tolkien, or Simmons; Dostoevsky, Homer, Melville, or Cervantes; and that is explore big ideas.
And what's a bigger deal than faith and the meaning of it all? In other words, how would the religious respond to finding intelligent life on other planets?
Alexander is writing my kind of fiction, the kind I love to read and that I am attempting to write myself. I plan to back this, especially since I have missed out on his previous efforts. Doubly so as for 15 shekels I can get the whole trilogy.
Heckin’ yeah brothers.
Speaking of Crusades, another Kickstarter just started, this time for The Cross Time Crusade!
A secret cabal of demonic forces threatens to destroy civilization and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Humanity's only chance is a shadowy organization called GRAIL--the modern day heirs to the Knights Templar--which has discovered the secret to time travel. The past cannot be changed, but if GRAIL can send an agent into the past to recover a lost book on demonology called the Codex Babylon, they may have a fighting chance to save humanity from utter destruction.
The Cross-Time Crusade is a series of books chronicling GRAIL's efforts to preserve a remnant of humanity from an unstoppable cataclysm. At this writing, three books are planned. The Cross-Time Crusade is more than just a book series, though: it is also a real-world mystery of epic proportions.
Yep! Put down for that one too.
Tis a great time to be a reader and a great time to be writer.
Brothers! Keep up your spirits!
The enemies of the God-Emperor in Heaven falter before our armour of contempt!
