Hello, what kind of book are you writing?

Grimdark fantasy series. Fast paced, 3 perspective characters. I decided to adopt 3 unlikely perspectives not typically found in a fantasy novel. Most novels don't follow a brutal enforcer, a slave ship captain, and a cult leader. I challenged myself to write a Grimdark novel, strove for the amoral melting pot of horror, action, dark fantasy, hoping the finished product was true to the coined 'Grimdark' genre.
Finished book 1 but still debating to jump straight to book 2 or try another avenue until I get feedback on the first novel from my non-existent audience =P. After all, a writer writes so they may have the honor of having it read. I do want to give the reader something they'd enjoy.
 
Though how rude of me! I should have asked. AleksandraR, are you yourself writing/wrote something recently?
 
Right now:
Changebringer an earth based scifi thriller. Currently in the submission process

WIP Rykoff A three generation alien encounter novel which went well but the second section, rather prescient, included a germ war pandemic. So has moved from the 'finished' tray back to 'pending' whilst I contemplate rewriting that part, (or not). :unsure:

And a spy thriller which will be under my newly chosen pen name (Robert Stratton) set In Cyprus. Working title "The Limassol Affair"
 
I am currently wrapping up the series I started when I was 14. The second book is currently in the submission process.

Three years after an epidemic caused by the "Phantom virus," an unknown catalyst that causes victims to turn into zombie-like beings with yellowing flesh, a young teen named Griffon lives on his own in Rochester, New York, fighting for survival. Things change when he meets with a group sheltered up outside of town. Just when he thinks he finally has a place to stop and rest, a new revelation strikes.

I love to write and am reading through the threads to see what others are doing.
 
Like @Valtharius, I have several in progress. I'm working on an alternative history/historical fantasy that's starting to take on elements of a fairy tale retelling, a Jasper Fforde style humourous fantasy, a dystopian trilogy, a Regency-era Steampunk spy/adventure series, library/book themed urban fantasy, and a fairy tale retelling.
 
Hi! Just like @pathfindersam , I have this story from where I was 14 (horrible and childish) that now has a more mature twist into a fairly explicit romance-fantasy novel of a princess forced into exile after having the kindom dethroned and gathers a team in order to return in secrecy and have her vengeance against the general that now rules the place, while meeting a clueless man with no memories carrying an ancient weapon of a myth long lost in time. Things don't go as planned and the party must have a long detour through reclusive lands in order to return without being detected.

I feel that sometimes stories treat these adventures a little bit lightly, so I focus on how the identities and relationships of the characters change (or even get twisted) when encountering frustration, love, danger, betrayal and evil.
 
Metal Made Flesh 4: Damnation. A cyberpunk / space opera novella series which follows the fortunes of cold-hearted cyborg assassin Izobel Vice, prince turned mutant war machine Kalibos and hedonistic-psychopath-trapped-in-the-body-of-a-synthetic-ten-year-old, Phaeon Nex as they fight to survive in a cyberpunk city filled with warring crime bosses, special tensions, lovecraftian monsters, political intrigue and corporate power grabs.

Kill the President, Again. A black mirroresque short about a plot to kill the president, again.

Profile - Horror / sci-fi short about a murderous tulpa.

Metzinger's Prodigies - Horror short set in a travelling carnival, with the mysterious Dr Metzinger, collector of strange and horrific artefacts.

Mayhem 2 - Mysterious. Malevolent. Magnificent. MAYHEM. Brave, selfless, Raiden Nakamura is the only person able to pilot the mecha devil in order to fight off an invading demonic horde. A graphic novel series.
 
I'm editing a novel about a man going through a mid-life crisis who experiences an ongoing dream that may in fact be the real world and not a dream. It's in first person with a lot of humour and it's the most fun I've had writing.
 
Cycling between 2 on-going novellas when not distracted by short story ideas;

Under Darker Suns: First Star I See Tonight - another 3 tales featuring Marine Sgt. Cooper, involving reality made flesh, a planet where plants are the smartest person in the room, and an answer (of sorts) to what ended all life on Earth.

Kiss This World Goodbye: A Lucas Helath Story - Our seedy private eye is out to solve a missing persons case before fortune hunters, kidnappers, and the Mob discover Lucy Hartz is now worth a packet. What could be simpler? (1950s L.A. noir. With voodoo)
 
reiver33 said:
Cycling between 2 on-going novellas when not distracted by short story ideas;

Under Darker Suns: First Star I See Tonight - another 3 tales featuring Marine Sgt. Cooper, involving reality made flesh, a planet where plants are the smartest person in the room, and an answer (of sorts) to what ended all life on Earth.

Kiss This World Goodbye: A Lucas Helath Story - Our seedy private eye is out to solve a missing persons case before fortune hunters, kidnappers, and the Mob discover Lucy Hartz is now worth a packet. What could be simpler? (1950s L.A. noir. With voodoo)
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Dude those are fine names for novels there
 
So, Lawrence, give us an overview, without giving too much away. ;)
 
Well @Droflet because of your nice inquiry I suppose I can try.

So I’m attempting to write a medieval tragedy, it’s centred around a love story but has many moving parts so has become a very complex; in a good way though.
It has started to take on a life of its own a little bit actually and if I would attempt to compare it to anything that’s out there it’s a little Emily Bronte meets Joe Abercrombie (in my head anyway). :giggle:
 
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What sort of book haven't I written.

At the moment I am thinking of digging out and editing a novel I wrote years ago.

It is a total (insert slightly rude would beginning with "p" here)- take of a your typical fantasy novel written by many male writers over the years.

Totally not PC, leaning on the point of bawdy, yet it has a very strong under current of thumbing the nose at the genre. And if you look deeper the characters are saying a lot about the world, gender politics etc.....

Knowing my luck folks will take it seriously and I will land in the cow poo, if I actually allow anyone to read it, let alone submit it.
 
Susan Boulton said:
What sort of book haven't I written.

At the moment I am thinking of digging out and editing a novel I wrote years ago.

It is a total (insert slightly rude would beginning with "p" here)- take of a your typical fantasy novel written by many male writers over the years.

Totally not PC, leaning on the point of bawdy, yet it has a very strong under current of thumbing the nose at the genre. And if you look deeper the characters are saying a lot about the world, gender politics etc.....

Knowing my luck folks will take it seriously and I will land in the cow poo, if I actually allow anyone to read it, let alone submit it.
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Please keep me in mind if you’d like a beta reader!
 
Kerrybuchanan said:
Please keep me in mind if you’d like a beta reader!
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I will do, that's for sure. At the moment it is just short of 87,000 words. I suspect when I am finished this edit. ( the latter part of the book needs a bit of fleshing out.) will be about 90,000 to 92,000 can't see it going much over that.

A rough synopsis, and I mean rough. I found it lurking in the folder along with goodness knows how many versions of the story.

Albert could only remember bits and pieces of his past. He was, as his side kick, Daniel, the fire drake, said, “Mad, bad and dangerous to know, and had the habit of dropping you in it on a regular basis.” So when Jack Tumbledown, royal spy, and youngest of the King’s children, crossed Albert’s path, things began to go pear-shaped for him rather quickly.

Jack was about to hire onto the first convoy of the season to cross a magical wastelands called the Weeping Lands. His mission was to take to his father, the King, a puzzle box that had once been the possession of the last Great High Mage (who just happened to have been Albert). It was also a box that Barnaby Clifford, and his mentor Lady Macfee, would stop at nothing to obtain. For Jack it was the least of his worries; he found himself tumbling not only from one adventure to another, but through time, desperately trying to keep himself, and others alive.

It was all part of a cunning plan; least Albert said so, if only he could remember it all. They just had to save the world, and get rid, not only of Barnaby, and Lady Macfee, but a thousand year old flea problem, well actually the evil High Mage, Mallen, who was behind everything, naturally.
 
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