Poking head up . . .

[sartorias]

Been working away. Have a cover for the Ball antho, and a blurb. The last stories are either in completion or finishing copyedit. Formatters are grabbing stories as they finish. I have to tackle contract stuff next, and then!

Meanwhile, THE TIME OF DAUGHTERS is heading for the finish line.

Comments

[whswhs]

I"m pretty sure that I've seen a post where you discussed what The Time of Daughters is about, but I've scanned back to December 2017 and not found one. Can you give a quick description, maybe a line or two? Is it in the Sartorias-Deles setting? Is it standalone or part one of a series (like Inda and its three sequels)?

[sartorias]

It takes place a century and a half after the last events in the INDA series.

A really rough blurb:

“I foresee a kingdom full of daughters”-was a prediction from a coded letter shortly after the infamous New Year’s Week of Four Kings.

It’s nearly a century after the death of Inda, the unbeatable Marlovan commander. The empire of Iasca Leror, now called Marlovan Iasca, is beginning to break up.

After yet another ruction in the ruling family, the young king and queen, new to a position they never foresaw, try to save a kingdom that’s fracturing into feudal states. In an effort to wrest the Marlovans back to the glory days, the new king and queen revive old traditions while reinventing others-such as bringing women into that unbeatable army.

By the time the Marlovans learn that you can’t go back again, events accelerate to a climax that no one could have foreseen-except maybe the ghosts walking the walls in the royal city.

[whswhs]

It sounds promising and I look forward to it with interest.

[sartorias]

Thank you for the kind words!

[puddleshark]

Hurrah! Really looking forwards to both of these!

[sartorias]

Thank you!