Imryne, Water and the Wild, and Hunter's Shadow
11 01 08 - 10:01
So. After being rather devastatingly ill this week for a bit, I have come out realizing that I have fallen behind on sharing all the news that's fit to blog.
First up is Imryne, of House Melrae, which is an epic fantasy of politics, magic, and murder. I am about a third of the way into it, I think, and am about to finish up the second book in what will probably be a four or five-book series. One of the things I'm doing this weekend is to put the story so far up on an archive site, but for now you can read it here, or pick up the RSS feed.
I'm having a lot of fun with Imryne, in large part because the society I'm writing about is so cheerfully vicious, and the main character herself is always just a step away from falling into that viciousness and madness.
What I'm going to be doing once I'm finished with the chapter I'm writing is alternating chapters of Imryne with chapters of The Water and the Wild, which is a YA book about Ireland during the potato famine, a pair of pixies, and the girl who has to try to save Ireland--and then herself.
I'll post here when I start posting those chapters, but I'm hoping it'll be a couple of weeks from now.
I've also started writing another book with Storm, this one called Hunter's Shadow. Set in Romania in 1599, it's the story of Sabina, a Roma woman who has inherited the position of vampire hunter from her father. When she comes up against a vampire too touch for her, her life is saved by a vampire...who in the process of saving her life, makes her his servant, bound to him by his blood. Tainted by vampire blood, unable to tell anyone what's happening to her, Sabina descends into a spiral of lies and violence, using the powers granted to her by the blood to hunt Sabats.
But Sabina doubts the intentions of Lucian, the vampire who turned her, and is tormented by the secrets she keeps. The worse things get, the closer she gets to Lucian, and the more she loathes herself for what she is becoming. He is pulling her down into unimaginable sins, or so she thinks.
As their bond grows, and with every decision she makes that keeps her by his side, the question of Lucian's intentions becomes more and more urgent. Can a vampire, in Rom legend a monster of filth, be truly committed to killing off its own kind? Or is Lucian using her for his own ends?
I'll post more when Hunter's Shadow starts, as well.