Category: Excerpts

• May 16, 2023

  Trouble at the schoolhouse–Excerpt from “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope”

  

  I’m excited to share a second excerpt from my upcoming sword and sorcery, action-adventure fantasy release. In this excerpt, Kora meets her brother on his way home from school (Zac is eleven. Kora is seventeen). It’s a fun scene because it reveals so much: Kora’s love for Zac, her fear for him, the uncertainty and…
• May 7, 2023

  Kora finds out about Zalski Forzythe: excerpt from “The Crimson League: The Fight for Hope”

  

  Yesterday, we explored the narrative technique of in media res and what inspired the character of Kora Porteg and her brother, Zacry. One fun aspect of that technique is that it allows for flashback scenes: such as when protagonist Kora, seventeen years old, reflects on the moment when she first learned that sorcerer Zalski Forzythe…