In a tiny school for Magi in a corner of the world, an orphan named Tal shows great talents, and is adopted by the leader of the mages of the Land as his son and potential heir to the Hawk Amulet that marks the strongest mage. In the battered streets of a major city, the street urchin Stret comes into power attempting to defend his family from the dangers around them. Greed and fear drive him to the dark power of Chaos, and an independence stolen by force. In time, the outside world drags ... Read more »
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To continue a theme in more detail
Recently on twitter, I posted a series of 140 character summaries of my completed novels. To follow up on that, I will now be posting a series of short 'back cover' blurbs, along with a little bit of background on the book in question. In a history where the Roman Empire never fell, and spread to encompass the galaxy, conquering aliens and star after star, a new foe has arisen to challenge Rome as it has never been challenged before. The almighty Legion faces an enemy equal to it in both ... Read more »
Sequels
So, with Changeling's Fealty finalized and in the agent's capable hands, thoughts are tumbling through my head on the sequel, tentatively titled either Changeling's Duty or Changeling's Oath... still working on a name :-p Historically I don't have a good track record with sequels. The second ONSET book languishes at about 10,000 words and an outline. The one to my alternate history space opera (first novel I ever finished, honestly pretty unpublishable XD) made is about the same. One ... Read more »
Twitter!
This blog is now linked to a public twitter account - @faolanspen Follow @faolanspen for shorter commentary than I post here, and to be notified when this blog updates! Glynn Stewart ... Read more »
Edit Update
So yesterday morning I turned in a final set of minor edits on Changeling's Fealty to the Agent. Most of it was minor things - adding a few more references to landmarks in Calgary to the book that locals will recognize. Some snarking at the Calgary Tower (totally inevitable. It's a 'landmark free standing tower'... thats shorter than many of our office buildings) The other included edit was explanations of a few things. It is very easy, when writing, to just have something happen ... Read more »
An update!
So the first set of edits on Changeling's Fealty is complete, producing a second draft that (per my agent's request) now actually includes chapter breaks. Unfortunately, I will not be free to post much on here in the next few weeks as I have started an advanced tax course for my day job, which will be sucking down much of my sanity... I mean time for the next ten weeks or so. I'm waiting on more responses from first readers at this point to start on more work for Changeling's Fealty in any ... Read more »