This book has a even more epic feel then the last of the series. I liked the idea of pitting two sisters, Noor and Chanai, competitors to the throne, against one another, in a planetary take down. This is what this book is about. Noor inherits the earth from her mother Sidus. And Chanai steals the royal Mars fleet from her sister, freeing 100,000 captives doomed to die.
Good stuff. But here's where it gets interesting. How exactly do you make Mars livable? So many books, from the Martian...
I have been working hard on book two of the series. Right now, it is down to line edits. I fire up a cigarette, pour a whisky, and get to work. The book itself is much more expansive. We see Noor take up the work of Sidus, as she doubles down on the genocide, and expunge all of the undesirables in her kingdom. I have thought about this often, the brutality of it, and have examined my own totalitarian instincts, and the answer is uncomfortable.
I have seen the tent cities sprawled across our...
I have had a blast writing A Forged Weapon, and becoming immersed in its world. As an indie writer, you wear many hats. The first and foremost of these is writer, and so I will thank the people helping me with the rest. Arsal Khan did a wonderful job on the cover, and all the iterations thereof.
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Mostly, its about the writing. A...