Howdy folks, yep I’ve
been slacking again on the blog front. But not on the writing battlefield. The
Final Prophecy is almost upon us; the winter solstice of 2012, which hails the
end of the Mayan calendar and the beginning of the New World.
This past twelve
months has seen sooth seekers matching current events with ancient predictions;
Nostradamus devotees are having a field day. But, let’s hope that the blackest
prophecies are wholly wrong, or we’d better start ticking off that bucket list
PDQ.
And I won’t get to
sell many copies of my ‘Final Prophecy’ if the world comes to an end in less
than a fortnight!
Book two in ‘The Ancient Knowledge’ trilogy is
available in all e-book formats on Smashwords. Cutting
it fine, I know, but as I’ve been writing concurrently with the unfolding
‘final’ year, it just had to crest on the wave of bated breath.
Paperback will be out
in the coming New Age. If indeed it comes.
I’ve re-categorised
the trilogy to, Epic Fantasy/Fiction, after taking on board some fabulous
feedback from readers. The Ancient
Knowledge series is definitely for a sophisticated reading audience: adults.
Too many bloody long words! Though I shall not shrink from my devotion to the
endangered English language, I have refrained from throwing too many tongue
twisters into the pot this time around. There are one or three more
contemporary vernaculars in there too.
Literary snobbery
aside, The Final Prophecy is . . .
explosive, violent, controversial, irreverent and revolutionary. Truth is
hidden in plain sight and there is as much fact woven into the tale as there is
fiction.
I challenge, therefore
I offend; inevitably. But, having said this, the anthropological and theological
suggestions I make are no less plausible than older biblical/science fictions.
I stood on both sides
of the fence and wrote from my character’s heart – or lack thereof. I have
found much wanting in the established authorities and doctrines; as have we
all. I have looked closely at our species and found much wanting there too. I
have also, I believe, identified what makes us uniquely beautiful. And it has
nothing whatsoever to do with religion.
The journey to The Final Prophecy has had me weeping
with grief and frustration and raging with fury and inner violence. The mere
fact I am capable of such extreme contrasts of emotion is testament to an
inalienable truth; there cannot be light without dark. To deny it is in
defiance of nature. And look at the results.
For the last two
thousand years we have been told we are the ‘light’, by the darkest souls on
Earth . . .
I know I was one of the reviewers who commented on the long words, but I hope I also made it clear I LIKED that :-) I love learning new words, even if I can no longer maintain them in my brain like I used to. Looking forward to the new one!
ReplyDeleteThanks Katy - plenty of delicious words in there still!
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