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Comments for Devil to Pay: Chapter One
Devil to Pay: Chapter One: 12/18/09
If you're a regular to this blog you know I draw, paint and read a ton of books. When I'm not reading or reviewing books I'm writing my own. I've been writing for fun since I was about ten. Like JM Snyder I started with fan fic but thankfully that was in the days before I had access to the internet (or that we had a computer at home). So I've never posted any of it and I don't plan to.
Most of my fiction has either been science fiction (with urban fantasy elements) or paranormal (mummies or werewolves). There was one mystery novella and an unfinished straight up fantasy adventure (with dragons).
This week I read the Tor edition of John Scalzi's Agent to the Stars. In the introduction he explains how we wrote the book to see if he could write a novel. The first version he offered on his website for $1 and made $4000. From there the book had a limited edition run as a hardback and now Tor's picked it up. He calls it his book that "will not die."
I don't know if any of my books will be that fortunate and I don't care. I write because it's fun. I write what I like to read. Maybe you'll like it too.
To give myself time to do final proof reads and edits I plan to serialize my books. I've decided to start with my favorite, the Greater Albion series. All the titles have a nautical title. Greater Albion is a culture built from generations on a slow ship. The captains of the ship have become the monarchs of the fledgling country. They are a long ways from Earth and there are no FTL ships. When they get into a war with the indigenous people they are basically on their own.
I'm playing with the distance of space to draw comparisons to the old distances on earth when ships were the only mode of transportation between continents. Empires grew vast but were difficult to control.
Devil to Pay started as Precursor when I wrote it for my 2005 Nanowrimo. It's actually the third in the Greater Albion series but it comes first chronologically. It's also the shortest of the novels. I wrote it to figure out the timeline, back story and motivation of the characters who created the mess that my characters in the next two are trying to clean up.
I'm posting chapter one as a PDF tonight and will add chapters probably once a week until I make it to the end of the book. Then when it's all done I'll offer the book as a whole too and move onto a new book. I hope you enjoy reading it.
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