Just in time for Christmas I bring you... the first chapter of MBT 2 Lamplighter, ready for you to download from...
HERE!
My word, I sure hope you all like it - consider it a Christmas present.
Merry Jesusbirthday (as I like to call it) and may it be a brilliant new year for everyone of you. I am being very UP here - might need to include a few bah-humbugs next post.
I just read through the first chapter of Lamplighter and all I can say is "WOW!" Way to open with a bang! Although, my favorite passages are those near the beginning describing the threwd and Briarywood, it's spine-tingling. Incredible bit of scene description there.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm glad you liked my character. Thank you! :)
Wow, nothing like starting things slowly! It's great, though, very action-ey and interesting- I was wondering how long it would take for you to mention Wits! Owch, a tad gory and morbid, too- certainly upps the arguement for invidism!
ReplyDeleteAnd hooray, you mentioned Licurius! :D *waves a silly little flag of joy*
Thanks for the Christmas chapter! Only a few more months to wait for the entire thing...
Glad you are liking it so far - maybe a tad more intense than the first book. I am very nervous about how folks will like the story as a whole...
ReplyDeleteAwesome. Thanks DM. Will have a little read tonight. Merry Jesusbirthday to you and yours.
ReplyDeleteI wonder...do they celebrate Christmas on the HC? If they do, would the lamplighters light lamps with different colours along the wormway just to get into the spirit of things?
- Matt
Once again I'm awed by your literary skills DM. A gripping first chapter, can't wait for the rest of the book! :D
ReplyDeleteThank you for that, lankysam, I am veyr encouraged.
ReplyDeleteI just noticed I misspelt "very" as "veyr", and it strikes me that "veyr" is a very Half-Continental kind of word. Not at all sure what it means yet, but it is in my notebook now, waiting for a definition. Any ideas?
ReplyDeleteveyr strikes me as something either serpentine or aeronautical. maybe a flying snake?
ReplyDeletewhen will the first "Who in the H-C would you be?" creation appear in the sidebar, if at all?
great opening, i thought it was fantastic!
ReplyDeletefinding it hard to cope with the wait but im sure i will manage
:D im just hoping europe comes back, she was a fantastic charicter.
as for veyr, maybe an intricate type of skin art? recieved in a transition into some sort of proffesion/cult/club,
ok im just babbling
anyway fantastic start :D
Wow. Really great way to open. Of course, now March seems a long way away.
ReplyDeleteDM - hope those CDs have arrived, and that you have a great Christmas.
The first profile will be appearing early next year, I reckon - I plan - Mr Mooseguy; just get through the "silly season" and all that hip-hoorah-new-yeah stuff then on with plans. It will happen, just a matter of when... and of how, hmm...
ReplyDeleteInfact, if I seem a little less responsive than normal it is due to the time of year and that I have just moved house.
Babble away, Sam Bam, babble is good - it leads to ideas!
Ahh, Master Lawrence, no cds. Alas!! When did you send them - I was so looking forward to some new tunes. How is it such a small nation as NZ has such a disproportionatly high number of truly creatively excellent and far-seeing folks?
Actually Master Lawrence to my great and deep delight your care package arrived today just after I wrote the above (wouldn't you know it!) Very cool and much more than I deserve and I am gagging to listen to them all - a very merry Christmas, indeed!
ReplyDeleteI think a care package of my own might be required... hmm...)
'Veyr' reminds me of the word 'vesper' like a kind of gas or element or something. Funny how a whole thread of conversation has grown from the misspelling of a word. :P
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas and a happy New Year to you DM. :)
DM - excellent - knew they couldn't be too far away. Hope you and yours have an excellent Christmas break. Do let me know what you think of the tunes.
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PS - and again, I say - Chapter One - WOW!
thats a good way to look at it,
ReplyDeletei think im going to babble more often then :)
lawrence am i right in thinking your involved in music?
that must be awsome!
DM have an awsome christmas and a happy new year. cant wait for the book, its great
hey i call it Jesusbirthday too
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