"Good as Gold"

Back in 2008, I started writing the sequel to "Thunder Daughter", which I called "Good as Gold". Unfortunately, I got a little sidetracked by the "Blue" Alternate Universe, and never got the story finished. (Story of my life, ne.)

Since I couldn't think of a good plot to follow "Memento Mori", and it was getting on for October by the time I finished it anyway (hardly giving myself a long time to think up a good, coherent plot, here), I decided to use my "traditional November annual leave" to be a NaNoRebel, and try to finally get "Good as Gold" finished - in draft form, if nothing else.

If you'd like to catch up, the story so far is posted on Dreamwidth and Livejournal.

Memento Mori - draft finished

My second proper post on here, yay! And this is more of an "official", "real" post, now I know what I'm doing with the blog. Well, kind of.

The first draft of my novel "Memento Mori" is finished.

As with the previous half of the first draft, "chapters" 19-33 are now posted as a PDF on my website, and can be accessed by clicking the picture at the right. (Again, it's just over 2Mb, and about 80k words.) If you just want to read and/or comment on the individual chapters, they are all uploaded here: Memento Mori on Livejournal.

I now need to think about getting to work on editing it, so I can publish it, although I may try and get "Good as Gold" finished first. (That, I think, will be my project this November.) It makes more sense to publish that and "Thunder Daughter" first, seeing as they explain a little about certain aspects of Memento Mori (notably, the feared "blood fevers").

I’ve always considered doing illustrated “special editions” of things, but as the photograph below shows, that may end up being prohibitively expensive. (I checked on Lulu’s price calculator, the base cost of a 300-page perfect bound full colour book would be in the region of £42. I’m not sure many people would be willing to fork over that much.)

The delay in making this post did allow me to get this item ready to go into it, however. As soon as the first draft was finished – and that is pretty much literally, as soon as the last word was typed I was formatting it to send off – I got the first draft printed up as a book (via “Lulu”, a print-on-demand service). It took about a week to arrive. I purchased two copies – one for me, to put in my bookcase as a “reward” for finishing it, and one to loan out to people at work; the loan copy is already out in the wild.

Memento Mori, Chapter 26

Hello and welcome to the first actual post on "Aude Sapere".

I'm still not 100% sure what I'm going to use this journal for, yet - it was originally for "official" posts related to my fiction, for instance "Book is published", but it's taking me a long time to get that far with anything. (The perils of doing writing in my spare time, I imagine.) For now, have an updated chapter of "Memento Mori".

(Click here to get to chapter 26) In which Sarmis manages to blow his own cover, and Tevak discovers his prize is missing (and promptly also blows up).

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