I have just this last week finished all twenty-two chapters of the first book in my series that I am writing with my little brothers. It’s been three very long years and many headaches. Currently, my friend is acting as creative editor, and I’m looking into self-publishing. It still has to be line edited, and my friend who is overseeing it as a managing editor has given me all the her notes. We’re both taking a short break from it so that we can get perspective when we read it again. Chris and Alex are going to be putting the cover art together, and also going over it to make sure it’s what we want.
The book is available on this website as a series of webpages, and I would love to have some more people read it before I put it into print. Email me if you are interested, and I’ll send you the password. It’s kind of cool to see it all put together. But now I have to format it for print, and that always takes tedious time. Still, I’m looking forward to seeing the final product. If all goes well, and I decide to self-publish, it should be available around the end of September, but definitely before christmas.
The story itself is definitely a hero’s journey, and part of a longer epic type saga. But we all really wanted it to be different from the standard fare; Harry Potter, Eragon. I have total respect for Rowling, and enough for Paolini not to dismiss him, but Xanatos is more anti-hero than hero, and overall a more gritty, more realistic telling of late adolescence and fantasy. Definitely written for an older teen to college age crowd, I wanted people who have grown up with these fantasy series to have something that’s not the standard adult fantasy which I really can’t stand to read myself. In the end, I still laugh at my own jokes, so that’s a good sign to me.
I’ll be putting the website together for the book itself, and posting a link when it’s done. The more people that read it, and talk about it, the better for me; so please let me know if you’re interested.