eyebrows augmented by several years of no longer caring to trim the damned things back
Good morning everyone!
It’s October 3rd, Ghosts and Guardians!
Which means a lot of things, but for A Tale of Ghosts and Guardians, it means it’s time for an update!
This week’s monster files spotlight is on the LIVING DEAD, which is a heavily populated category. It includes any creature that was dead for a period of time and is once again up and moving. Zombies, mummies, ghouls, and patchwork creatures fall into this category. Vampires do not, and the reason why will be explained next week.
The Living Dead are brought back without consent. Their resurrection takes a great amount of power and usually holds unforeseen consequences. Magic and godly intervention are the two main vehicles which raise the dead, the other less common one is Man’s perversion of natural science. Due to the various means of resurrection, how the living dead behave will also vary. Some are mindless, some have one purpose (to kill, to reach a destination, to follow the orders of their summoner), and others have the personality and free will from their previous lives. Some will continue to eat, drink, and age as a human would, and others will not age or heal after wounded.
In A Tale of Ghosts and Guardians Hardy, Chris, and Maninder fall under the category of the Living Dead, but their origins, skills, and personalities are very diverse.
I’ve added an excerpt from Chapter Nine: Untangled, the meeting of Chris and Maninder, the only two characters not yet introduced in my sample chapters. Check it out and let me know what you think!
It’s October! The final month of the Geek and Sundry Inkshares contest is here, and Witherfist is still fighting to find a spot in the top 10. We’re in 13th place, unlucky for some, but not for us.
This morning Witherfist reached 83 readers! Thank you to everyone who has helped to support the book.To celebrate, I thought I’d share with you all something very cool indeed: the first concept art of Irusai Daud, the woman known as Witherfist herself.
What do you think? Does she look as you imagined her? Let me know.
Hello Ghosts and Guardians!
Pre-orders have slowed down in the past few weeks. So have my updates. Correlation? Causation? I’ll make you a deal. I will post more updates, add some fun, and you can keep commenting and spreading the word about A Tale of Ghosts and Guardians.
Halloween is coming and that will be the perfect time to attract readers to ghosts, mummies, witches, werewolves, zombies, vampires, and Frankenstein monsters.
Every Monday for the next six weeks I will post a spotlight from my monster files, which explains how each type of monster lives and behaves in the world of A Tale of Ghosts and Guardians.
This week’s spotlight is on the titular GHOSTS
Spooooky!
When the living spend an extraordinary amount of time with an object, location, or another living being, they form a connection that is hard to sever, even when they are gone. Ghosts are the dead come back for a life cut short; for a chance not taken; for a love not requited. They thrive on regret. Not all ghosts can be seen. Not all ghosts can be heard. All ghosts can affect the world of the living, despite not being able to touch it. Ghosts are not beholden to the rules of the physical world. They can float through any material, move objects as large as a person, and possess human bodies to do their bidding. Because of this, ghosts are difficult to defeat, but they are always vulnerable to a powerful witch.
Don’t forget to check out the excerpt from Afterimage, a Monique chapter, posted on my front page. This is an exchange between Monique the vampire and Kara the ghost, which highlights how each woman perceives the world and how being monsters affects them.
And look for the Living Dead spotlight next Monday!
