Blurb for the Spaces Between

The current one isn't working. It sounds too cliche, when in fact I'm making fun at those cliches. Thinking of changing the blurb to this:

An exiled warlock sits fuming in his confinement. A not-so-secret holy Order can't keep its "elite" members alive. An idiot man-child talks to a dead man who leads him nearly to his death. A Holy Temple sits waiting for new tenants as the others were slaughtered by a demonic abomination. And a bull-headed mercenary is convinced he can trek off into the great north and learn magic.

Fantasy clichés are put to the test in this off-beat and dark fantasy story. There is an adventure, a journey, a quest if you will. But the "heroes", if you dare call them that, will not even come close to saving the world.

KDP Select - Promotion

A big THANK YOU to everyone who took advantage of the Amazon promotion that ran this weekend. I am glad that you got your hands on a copy of The Spaces Between, and I really look forward to hearing feedback about the book.

I'm happy to be able to tell a story, and even happier when people read it.

Why "A Drunkard's Journey?"

Why is this trilogy called “A Drunkard’s Journey?”

Well, I don’t want to pull a  RAFO (Read and Find Out), so here is the best explanation without spoilers.

The main character (Zhy) starts out as a hopeless drunk, and while things improve over the course of his journey, it’s never quite 100%. Book II will make things even more interesting, because everything gets a little haywire.

Originally I thought this would be something like “A Trilogy of Knots”, to refer to the philosophical/religious teachings that we see in the lands of Belden and Welcfer. But that made it impersonal. When we meet Zhy we at once feel sympathy and revulsion. And even though there are multiple threads that weave through the story, the focus really is on Zhy. As much as I wanted to avoid the cliché of the “personal journey of growth and discovery”, it sort of turns out that way, but Zhy just stops short at about 37%. Why? Well, gosh, I hate to say it, but RAFO. I hate it when authors do that, but I don’t want to give anything away.

The Spaces Between - An Off-Beat Fantasy Adventure

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So, has anyone read a fantasy novel where the main character has autism or Asperger's? And has that story been told in the first person?

What about a fantasy novel where strangers meet and go on a grand quest? Yes, of course, that is pretty standard.

The Spaces Between has both.


But hold on!

The Spaces Between may start off down a familiar path, but it quickly spins out of control, and we find ourselves engrossed in a captivating series of events that end quite unexpectedly. The ending is by far one of the most surreal and unique in the genre.

We have a secret Order of specially-trained assassins, a group called "Protectors" who guard a so-called holy temple, and a very dangerous warlock waiting for them all.