This entry is part 1 of 28 in the series Trouble on the HorizonI’m going to spend a few blogs explaining my next big project. It’ll take a bit of time because I’m picking up a project I started long,…
This entry is part 1 of 28 in the series Trouble on the HorizonI’m going to spend a few blogs explaining my next big project. It’ll take a bit of time because I’m picking up a project I started long,…
This entry is part 2 of 28 in the series Trouble on the HorizonMan, I really need to get used to writing The Eternal Night Saga. It’s hard to break 10 years of calling it “Strin and Fred.” (By the way,…
This entry is part 3 of 28 in the series Trouble on the HorizonSo, here we are, the moment of truth. As I worked my way toward finishing Book 3, I found myself stuck. It seemed to me that too…
This entry is part 4 of 28 in the series Trouble on the Horizon A Vision of Lila in the Horizon Taken from the writings of Timothy Lown, Governor of the Horizon That wall of night upon the Kingdom’s edge…
This entry is part 5 of 28 in the series Trouble on the HorizonThe Horizon’s a frightfully odd place. Once, two armies clashed upon its cliffs in desperate battle—one for its survival, the other for its domination. Two men, now…
This entry is part 6 of 28 in the series Trouble on the HorizonIt began, as things of importance usually do, in an unassuming way— Strin Telnok woke up. Strin was a Horizon man, but he did not wake on…
This entry is part 7 of 28 in the series Trouble on the Horizon One thing was certain: Strin and Fred stood in a cavern of glass wearing nothing but their nightclothes. Where they were exactly—whether in some exotic prison,…
This entry is part 8 of 28 in the series Trouble on the Horizon Strin was looking at something behind Fred. Fred spun, prepared for anything, and nearly fell as his foot hit the base of a stalagmite. But he…
This entry is part 9 of 28 in the series Trouble on the Horizon A single, yellow-gray tentacle stretched into the ambient light. Another followed. One by one they entered as the machine rolled in; they encircled its body. The…
This entry is part 10 of 28 in the series Trouble on the Horizon The eyes stopped tracking Strin. The neck slumped. The tentacles drooped and laid their tips on the ground. The revolutions of the upper body slowed; the…
This entry is part 11 of 28 in the series Trouble on the Horizon The door led into a featureless tunnel of the same purple glass. Light shone evenly from the walls so that there was neither shadow nor sense…
This entry is part 12 of 28 in the series Trouble on the Horizon Amid the dense, untamed forests that clothe the foothills of the Grenhki Mountains, wedged in the valley cut by the River Bann, sits the Crystalline Castle….