I’m still all hopped up about the upcoming Kickstarter release of the 10th anniversary edition of my fantasy series, Saga of the God-Touched Mage. I’ll be yammering on a bit about Rogue Mage, which is book three, in a moment.
But for now, you can check out the Kickstarter Preview here:
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As with all the books in this anniversary edition, Rogue Mage gathers together two volumes of the original series, in this case Pawn of the Planewalker and Changing of the Guard. This means that of all the new books, this one is the most focused on the machinations of power around the whole of Adruin.
Which was a whole lot of fun to write.
Much (not all, but much) of the rest of the series is written fully from the point of view of Garrick, the main guy. Which makes sense, of course. Heroes, willing or not, take up their space. But I remember enjoying taking moments to write from the rest of the world’s viewpoints, too. Everyone is the hero of their own story, and the best villains are, of themselves, proper of mind. The challenge in these situations was to understand them each well enough to write them both intellectually and, to a degree, in emotionally sympathetic frames.
This is something I like about writing complex stories.
Of course, there’s a bunch of Garrick in here, too. It wouldn’t be that Saga of the God-Touched Mage without the God-Touched Mage. Mostly, though, Garrick is diverted into dealing with Braxidane’s foibles and then frustrated as he tries to work with the Torean independents, who are the human mage versions of cats.
Bottom line: there’s a lot of moving parts by this time of the story, and this volume moves with them all.
As a writer, that makes it the one that was most fun to go back through.
Good times, I say.
Good times.
You can take a look at Rogue Mage here: