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Travel Log of a Raven
Travel Log of a Raven immerses the reader in a culture built around forty years of war. The three warring Kingdoms have just declared Peace because all three armies have just decimated each other. There’s not many men around; they’re all dead. We follow the voice of a former Raven (a peasant who earns a wage by carrying dead nobility back home after a battle) whose occupation has just been eliminated.
The world the Raven exists in is an extension of the novel, Kingdoms and Curses. If you want to read the precursor to the Raven’s adventures, please check out my first novel, Kingdoms and Curses. The Raven’s storyline takes place just after the end of "The Chosen One", but before any of the other stories.
Kingdoms and Curses
Kingdoms and Curses is a novel that will spin you about as you follow the lives of several characters during an age of war between three Kingdoms. Tongue and cheek and into the deep, you'll never know which way you'll turn next, be it clever, tragic or ridiculous.
- After the much anticipated Chosen One dies hours after birth, three ambassadors are left baffled at how to fulfill the prophesy of Peace.
- Will a once beloved princess defy destiny by not being evil, or will she outgrow that phase of youth?
- Why does an old warrior drag his orphaned nephew with him on his annual pilgrimage to Hell?
Read these and more in Kingdoms and Curses.
Author's Notes about the Novel Kingdoms and Curses
At the end of 2014, with a new baby in my arms, I managed to publish Kingdoms & Curses at a most inopportune time, nearly a week or so before Christmas. Hardly anybody could even look up from the Holiday's busy-ness to realize that I had published it, let alone order it. Afterwards, my time was absorbed in the constant attention new babies require who grew to be a wily one year old who couldn't resist exploring with the full banzai force curiosity requires. A year passed. The first year of publishing came and went, and I barely made a blip into the land of marketing. However, words and stories never grow old, and neither do ideas. In January 2016, I began writing again a variety of pieces, and a few of them led back to the world I created in Kingdoms and Curses. What better way to promote a book than to write more stories?
