Good morning, #cosowriters! What are you working on this first day of May? #writers #WritingCommunity #amwriting #wip
I am blazing along on Roast Wyvern and Other Recipes, an epic, low fantasy quest novel more about the gathering of ingredients than fighting monsters and getting treasure. I'm about 65k into it and it will probably be 100k when it's done. Just another epic fantasy doorstop. #WritingCommunity #writers #cosowriters #amwriting #wip
@ianthealy Excited for you to finish this. This is definitely something I would love to read.
@ianthealy I figured you had epic plans for publishing. lol I'll check out that other one you wrote, and I'm good to wait patiently. Just letting you know the interest is there for your take on the genre. :)
@BabyToaster I'm guessing my unique spin on this is that I'm largely unfamiliar with the genre beyond a few classics like LOTR, DragonLance, The Iron Tower, Discworld, and the Spellsinger series. I don't typically read fantasy, but played a lot of fantasy #ttrpg, which is what informs most of my tropes. When the potential agents ask about comparable works, I'm going to be doing a lot of shrugging and tap dancing.
@ianthealy You can spin it by saying "You want this because it's one of a kind! It'll be the start of something new!" A character driven adventure that twists the genre.
@BabyToaster Thanks! My dear friend @msallied is insisting I send this one to her agency first. I probably will, just to see how it goes. It's been many years since I was agented. If you are interested, this is a sidequel to another book I wrote (that IS available) called Horde.