Hello all. In addition to working on "The Promise of Azoth," I recently started another story called Blizzard. It takes place in North Dakota, and is about a family (of three) who go to see a sick relative and get caught in a blizzard. In the middle of this, they stop to help some men in distress who turn out to be robbers who have just pulled a Casino Job in nearby Devil's Lake. The crooks car was damaged and they have run out of gas from a bullet hole in the gas tank. This is a real change for me, and as you see I've already done some story art and have pretty much the entire book worked out. I'm shooting for a novel, instead of novella's like I've written in the past. The Promise of Azoth is actually four novellas that take place about 100 years apart. But it tells the essential story of Galen Brandis, where he comes from and how the Sword of Azoth was made and what shaped him as a character, and why he is how he is in the great war that takes place in his future...Due to some personal problems, I have done little writing in the past four years, and have lost most of my early manuscripts and maps. Some of my family let me down there, and destroyed most of my work. I am picking up the pieces though, and moving on. Galen Brandis will never die, and I will see his story published before I die. As to what else is in my head....there is a lot of stuff up there and I hope to share more with all of you in the future. Take
a look at SECRET VOICES, the short flash-fiction piece I wrote, and let me know what you think.... yvette loved it and wants me to add to it, but it is what it is...oh, the picture of grindael the dragon at the top of the blogofazoth is unfinished...i'm working on it...
-grindael-san
