Will Ariel

 Having just published  The Sundered Circle , a fast-paced fantasy novel, I'm interested in trying something new.  It's time to write my Space Opera Trilogy. At least, I'm pretty sure it's a trilogy. It's been presenting itself in my head as an arc that follows three books, but ultimately, the universe that arc plays out in is vast enough that it could hold a hundred books. Notes have been written, reference has been collected, and I've built a three dimensional model of the spaceship that the first book mainly takes place in. Sorry, no pictures of the ship: the ship is still a prototype, and the 3d model is built in Minecraft. Minecraft is a surprisingly useful tool for making locations in your writing worlds, especially the kind of locations that aren't represented well in two dimensions. In a far future post we can take a tour, but not until at least the first book is published and I have fully explored the ship myself.  The thing I think I am going to wr...

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Today I slapped a book blurb out of my keyboard. It was actually pretty easy compared to some things I've written. Could be because I've had enough practice to make this kinda thing a little easier than it used to be, could be because I've been deep in this book for long enough to know what it's about (which actually isn't always the case for me), could be because the story is solid.  Here's the current version of the blurb.  "One more job in the rotting riverside city of Aventine, and then the independent mercenary Cyrus Bladetalker and his teleporting dog can retire young and rich. The job: Bladetalk with one sword. Get the story hidden in the steel, tell it to the royal family, collect payment, and get out of Aventine before everything goes to hell. Easy, right? What seems like a simple job quickly turns into an unraveling nightmare: the blade is cursed, and the cursemakers are more than willing to kill him -- or worse -- in order to keep their hideous...