FOR STARTERS

Well... about time I finally get this blog rolling. 


I have been slacking on the idea of doing one (mind elsewhere) and never really put much thought into it (once again, mind elsewhere). I stuck to Facebook’s group page set with the bulk of my novel updates and random art pieces I do when I have the time to, but deep in the back of this ole skull of mine (where the storm is) I kept telling myself that sooner or later this blog will get a decent heartbeat and then some.

And so… it begins.

R.T.II here! Indie author, published one book in 2010 titled SHADOW GENESIS VOLUME ONE: PRELUDES OF WAR. I started the story off at its infantile days back in late 2006 (now that I can remember) during my little stage of depression after leaving college and steady written its bulk during the entirety of 2007. Had a few ‘ups and downs’ with life until finally breaking out of the rather dramatic situations thus when 2009 hit I was near complete with the manuscript. 2010 rolls around and I self-published it through XLibris Corp. It has been four years since I published another

Now I am rebooting the novel altogether… tough work, well worth it.

Shadow Genesis is an origin story set in Shadow Realm (not what many of you may start to think) during the Era of Malice that is consider the realm’s ‘peaceful era’ as many claim it to be. However, things are not so peaches and cream in this lovely realm of eternal night (bioluminescent extreme!) as evil forces from the old and new threaten to eliminate the realm’s sovereign Malice La'Shade Khan.

Sounds like a meek story, and as cliché as it may sound… yes… the story sounds a bit unassuming and ‘sparkling with plot simplicity’, but this so call ‘evil’ needs its ducks in a row first.

Before it… or they… can take down this black and beautifully serene woman of short height and voluptuous purple hair (little description there), they must turn to a greater force of power looming in the backdrop pulling all strings. This other little woman, whose skin is white as alabaster and hair kissed by the blood of the rose (like how I did that there?) is a force not to be trifle with, and is the ‘queen bee’ of the scene of fiends. As simple as this all may sound, it is truly an ‘iceberg’ in itself: Small up top, big beneath the watery surface.

I originally wanted the story to span four novels, but that was just a blunt estimate. After the first book I did begin the second, but once again a few difficulties hit me hard (life lesson learned in the process) and during the craziness endured I realized… that my novel was lacking bad. I have many enjoying it, and I am humble and grateful of my supporters and their help, but deep down I knew what was expected of me. Revising Shadow Genesis became a task that cannot be ignored.

At this moment I have 50 chapters completed, five parts, over 290,000 words worth of reboot and a great deal of new additions not seen in the current novel. Once this new edition hits, the original will become limited. Realizing that 50 chapters is a bit too much (really is too much for now) I split the manuscript in two, now having two stories instead of one, and a third that originally was ‘Volume Two’ now ‘Volume Three’ (pending still as usual).

Plus, I created a new title!

SHADOW GENESIS: INCEPTION

Still has that ‘Preludes of War’ feel to it, but shorter.

Will be keeping this blog periodically updated.