Hi
I have three pieces of good news to share.
First, Bookworm won the gold prize in the Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards. Category Five (Adults).
Second, yesterday I signed the contract for The Royal Sorceress III: Necropolis. We don’t have a publication date yet, but it should be along in 3-4 months.
Third, I’ve started plotting out a series based on a magical/semi-fantasy version of the Wars of the Roses … yes, I know; I shouldn’t be thinking about more books until I have my current commitments back under control. It won’t be along for a while, but it’s fun to mess around with the concept and see what makes sense.
Still, I’m not sure if I want to go with a fantasy novel (I’ve long wanted to write a fantasy war) or a more alternate version of the wars, without much (if any) magic. What do you think?
My plan is to start The Oncoming Storm tomorrow. This will be followed by The School of Hard Knocks, The Trafalgar Gambit (Ark Royal III) and The Thin Blue Line (TEC9).
Comments?
Chris
IIRC, GRRM’s “Game of Thrones” series is a misanthropic take on the War of the Roses, with the reemergence of magic into a fantasy world.
OTOH, given your relative productivity, you’ll finish before he does.
I haven’t actually read the books, but judging from a glance at the tropes page I have something else in mind. Chris Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 20:01:07 +0000 To: christopher_g_nuttall@hotmail.com
You are a workhouse. If i could only have 50% of your endurance and passion, I would be happy for life.
Keep going CN!
Thank you Chris Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:12:46 +0000 To: christopher_g_nuttall@hotmail.com
Thanks for the news.
I vote no magic and also have crazy extreme views about fiction that should most likely be ignored!
Crazy views? Tell me more Chris Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:40:16 +0000 To: christopher_g_nuttall@hotmail.com
Write the wars with no magic — that’s my vote anyways.
Good thought Problem is, I may just have to make up the country (or call it a skewed reality.) Chris Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:11:09 +0000 To: christopher_g_nuttall@hotmail.com
Trafalgar Gambit–I like that.
Yup. Excellent title.
Thank you! Chris Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:04:56 +0000 To: christopher_g_nuttall@hotmail.com
I hope you like the story too. Chris Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 13:46:02 +0000 To: christopher_g_nuttall@hotmail.com
I think you should do the war of roses piece, but with a steam punk type of twist. Mix up tech and magic. So steam engines still get invented, but uses imp/demons as the heat source instead of burning coal, same for making steel. Same for things like zeppelins and sailing ships, make them better by augmenting them with techomagic.
Might be fun. Not what I had in mind, but it might well be fun. Chris Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 04:41:40 +0000 To: christopher_g_nuttall@hotmail.com
Congratulations! Chris Kuntz idea is interesting.
Thank you!
Chris
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:40:34 +0000
To: christopher_g_nuttall@hotmail.com
I’m a sucker for fantasy, so my vote goes to an fantasy version.
Thanks Chris Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 08:52:33 +0000 To: christopher_g_nuttall@hotmail.com
Looking forward to Trafalgar Gambit. Hope you are continuing Henry’s story rather than what was happening on earth during the events covered in The Nelson Touch. That is my vote. Also wondered how they figured out what to feed the alien prisoners….
Biochemical tests. Not very good food, by alien standards, but edible. Chris Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:19:19 +0000 To: christopher_g_nuttall@hotmail.com
I have thoroughly enjoyed the intelligent exploration of political science and economics in your books, almost as much as the high quality space battles. I am not one who looks for fantasy or magic. I would love to see a continuation of the Ark Royal Series and the The Learning experience novel. Keep up the great work. I would like to say, however, that it seemed a little far fetched that they were able to put together a moon base ( Royal Engineers not withstanding ) in a month or so. You seemed to rush through that phase of the book ( Learning Experience) to get to the political and action parts. Maybe just me.
I love you work and admire your work ethic and the quality of output. I can’t wait for the next series of books.
Thank you! I wasn’t too interested in writing a long section covering the construction of the moon base (and I didn’t think it would be very interesting to read), so I skimmed over it. Generally, most of the problems IRL come from shipping stuff to the moon; in ALE, this problem simply doesn’t exist. More of both will be on the way Chris Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 14:13:06 +0000 To: christopher_g_nuttall@hotmail.com