So I Wrote A Fantasy Novel…
I wrote a book. A novel. A fantasy novel. You can download the entire thing here and read it.
What’s it About?
A reasonable question! Here’s the blurb from the book’s Kindle Page.
After years spent in the inn he bought and never opened, Heden is drawn out by his best friend and sent into a dark forest to investigate the death of a knight.
There he finds his efforts thwarted. No one, it seems, wants him to solve this crime. Why was Heden chosen for this mission? Who killed the knight and why? Why won’t anyone talk to him? As the Green Order awaits Heden’s final judgement, he finds his morality, perspective, and sense of self are each challenged and then destroyed.
Perhaps nothing, even right and wrong, can survive in the haunted wood.
Priest is about a man who lead the typical Fantasy Hero life for a long time, and the damage that life did to him. A man who, when we meet him, is incapable of living up to the standards he sets for himself. It’s about the awful choices life forces us to make, and how difficult life can be to bear because of that. It’s about how for some people, before things can get better, they must first get worse. There’s a lot of action, some of it epic, a large cast of characters, and hopefully some little humor.
It’s short, compared to most fantasy novels these days, more akin to the typical fantasy novel from the 1980s when books were about 350 pages. There’s a lot of dialog, and I hope it reads fast.
It’s the first book of what I intend to be a series about camaraderie. All my favorite movies are about camaraderie, and I felt there was no point writing anything personal, anything that spoke to me, if I didn’t build it on a foundation of camaraderie.
But this first book only hints at that. It’s not about a group, it’s about one man. I rewound the series back to before the heroes get together to show the reader that you can have the bad-ass Fantasy Hero, but there is a price. The things that happen in this book give the rest of the series a much-needed sense of gravitas.
Part of my inspiration was Heroes, which takes all the tropes from comic books, and reskins them to make them universal and appeal to a wide audience. So a fan of fantasy fiction will recognize many of the tropes of the genre in Priest, but someone new to should, I hope, also find it accessible.
This Site
The goal of this site is to build an audience for the book. So if you’ve read it, and you liked it, and you think anyone you know might like it, please help me promote it by telling your friends. If someday I contact an agent or editors, showing them that the book already has a lot of fans will help sell the book. I’m very much not looking for unsolicited edits, or editorial feedback, unless you happen to be an editor in my genre, in which case feel free to email me!
I’m interested in what you, reader, think of the story. The parts you liked, the parts you didn’t like, and why. I encourage you to leave feedback. You can also follow the book on Facebook!
