Ask the Author: Conor Kostick
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Conor Kostick
Hi Sebastian, I've seen this! Thanks for the positive feedback, much appreciated. The Roman setting is actually on hold right now as I finish a book called 'The Dragon's Revenge'. It is set on Earth, when Epic 2 is being launched. An AI dragon has gone rogue and has conquered half the game. The only person to have successfully led a raid to kill the dragon is Tyro (real name Tom) a teenager from a rough part of Dublin. The company hire him to build a team and try to take the dragon out. This will be published in spring as one of the first books by Level Up ( https://www.levelup.pub/about/). Cheers, Conor
Conor Kostick
Hi, yes, I hope so. Probably around spring.
Conor Kostick
Hi Thomas. thanks for your enthusiasm. I hope you'll be pleased with the news that early in 2017 Level Up Publishing will publish 'The Dragon's Revenge'. This is a prequel to Epic, set on Earth. So I'm afraid that the characters are all new. But the game of Epic has been created. Unfortunately for the developers, who have invested a fortune in the game, an AI dragon has gone rogue and is organising an army of mostly evil creatures to conquer the world and control the human entry points. The developers hire Tom Foster, a 17-year-old Irish kid, who has an amazing RPG reputation to lead a team into the game and defeat the dragon. I hope that sounds appealing.
Conor Kostick
Hi Megan, thank you, that's very kind. If you haven't seen them already, I have a series of short (15k) novella's set in a far-future virtual environment. One of them, the Siege of Mettleburg, takes place in the Epic sim. https://www.amazon.com/Eternal-Voyage... My current work-in-progress (which I'm half way through) is set in Roman times, except magic works and there are dragons. The Romans hate magic but they need a sorcerer to help fight the Si. The young Welsh lad they recruit is very insubordinate and I'm enjoying the boot camp scenes where they are trying to train him into the Roman army and he doesn't care for their discipline.
Conor Kostick
Hi Booklover, many thanks for the question. I recently had a VR experience, which made me think, yes, it could happen. The National Library of Ireland piloted a VR immersion for a Yates poem and it was incredibly involving. Back when I wrote Epic I didn't really see games becoming so immersive so quickly, but we are getting there. And AI is coming along fast too, for sophisticated NPCs.
Conor Kostick
Keep writing! Don't lose heart.
Conor Kostick
An alternate Roman empire world, where magic works and there are dragons. The Romans hate magic, but they find it necessary to recruit a magician for the army. A group of Welsh teenagers therefore end up in the Roman boot camp, before heading off into the shadow world of the Sidhe as part of a major army.
Conor Kostick
Usually by reading a great book.
Conor Kostick
The book in question is Sinead, the Sword and the Stone and it came about because my dad was showing me around the castle at Taunton and claimed that a large stone there used to hold Excalibur. So it occurred to me to write a story where Excalibur is still there, waiting to be drawn. Of all the thousands of tourists who make the attempt, what would happen if the sword left the stone for a teenage Irish girl?
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