Sunday, February 2, 2014

Sneak Peak #1

February 1 came and went without any word from my editor. Sigh.  Tomorrow I shall begin the search for a new editor (I've already identified a few options).  Unfortunately, this means it will likely be closer until the end of February before The Dungeons of Cetahl is finally published. This is particularly frustrating because I was done with the story in early December...and had I chosen a different editor I might actually have published before the end of the year as I had originally hoped.

Anyway, I think most (if not all) of the visitors to this website are spambots...but on the off chance that a legitimate fan of THE STEWARDS OF REED series does check this blog from time to time, I've decided to post some sneak-peaks of The Dungeons of Cetahl until the book is finally published. It goes without saying that these pages have not yet been edited...


Prologue


The man sat quietly in the corner of his cell. His eyes had adjusted to the darkness long ago – so much so that he felt the need to shield them from the brightness of the guard’s torch whenever his daily ration of food was delivered. But it was his hands that he still relied upon most of all. His hands could see and hear what his other senses could not. His hands knew the stories of the walls, and the walls knew the stories of those sequestered in the cell before him.
The stone walls were cold and damp, and many parts were coated with a thin layer of moss that somehow managed to persist without the benefit of sunlight. He traced his fingers along the etchings in the stone. Several prisoners of old had attempted to track their days spent in solitude within the Dungeons of Cetahl – the thief for certain, the merchant, the blacksmith. But not the wizard. No, she did not mark her time in stone.
But it was not the wizard who concerned him, nor any of the others for that matter. I am here for a reason, he reminded himself. Eventually, sleep overcame him and he drifted off into the land of dreams – the only land beyond his cell that he had seen in over two decades.

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