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RIFT - Scene 22

First of all, EXODUS (ebook edition) is currently FREE, so if you know anyone who might be interested, you should tell them about it! Here´s the link: http://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Trilogy-Book-1-ebook/dp/B00AI9BMHS/

Alright, let´s turn back to RIFT. The final scene has been written, and in about a week it´s going off to my editor. But for now, you can follow the process here, first draft. Expect the final version to be very different, I´m just saying.

Now that Sue i...

RIFT - Scene 21

Things are moving quickly, and I´m currently writing faster than I can post on the blog. I have my editor scheduled for December, and I´m shooting for a Christmas launch. I´ll keep posting the scenes throughout the editing phase, so if you are following these posts, you will be able to read all of them before I launch the book properly.

So, today it´s time to head north again, to Camp Sharpe, where Sue has impressed both Janissary leadership and Counselor Mark Novak, a...

RIFT - Scene 20

So, I have another RIFT scene for you. After thinking long and hard, I figured Sue just don´t have enough to loose. I also wanted to show a bit more of the ugly parts of the Covenant early on. And lastly, I wanted a more action- oriented introduction, instead of the "looking in the mirror, thinking of what is about to happen" start that I originally envisioned. So here´s what I came up with, a new first scene.

But since we jump around in the first draft, let´s just call it sc...

RIFT - Scene 19

A short scene today. Dave is still learning tons among the Wardens, and he´s now begun his specialization in Tech. It´s becoming more and more clear to him that there are secrets abound, and in Tech he´s going to learn many of them- job requirement. And then there are secrets that not even those protecting the secrets are allowed to learn. The plot thickens...

RIFT - scene 19

Dave loved it in Tech. He had never been able to learn so much before. He took apart night vision gogg...

RIFT - Scene 18

Just a quick note to my newsletter subscribers before we continue: I was writing an email five minutes ago, but struggled with including a file that I want you to have exclusive access to (Don´t ask, it´s super secret - newsletter subscribers only!). But I fumbled it, and so it´ll just have to wait until tomorrow (it is 22:45 Central European Time as I write this). So I figured, while we wait, I´ll post another RIFT scene.

After following Sue through her first combat e...

RIFT - Scene 17

In this scene, we´ll see what happens when Sue and her friends are gathered for what the Janissaries call "Survivor Night". In this scene there is a passage where we learn to know another character better, and although it´s not a POV- character, I think this character can show us a little more of who the Moon People are, and what it must be like to be among such an elite, born to rule and all that. We already know a lot about the regular folks, who among other things only live unt...

RIFT - Scene 16

RIFT is coming along nicely, and I have my editor scheduled for December. For new readers, let me just repeat that here on the blog, I post every scene of my upcoming novel, RIFT, raw and unedited, first draft. As always, skip these posts if you don´t like reading unedited material. For those of you following the process, let me just repeat that the finished novel will look quite different. I tend to make a lot of changes from first draft to finished novel. So, it´s time to meet M...

RIFT - Scene 15

Things are really picking up now, and so far, I think Sue has been holding up pretty well. Now, let´s step right into where we left off, and see whether Sue and Julian can deal with what lays ahead of them.

 

RIFT - Scene 15

After about five minutes, Julian stopped, raised his left fist, and took a knee, weapon raised and ready to fire.

«Twelve o´clock» Sue heard his voice, an amplified whisper. She took a knee, and waited. After a few seconds that seemed to last an e...

RIft - Scene 14

So I have another RIFT scene for you guys. But first of all, if you haven´t already got it, Aurora, the second book in the Exodus Trilogy, is on sale in the US and the UK for $0.99 / £0.99 for a couple more days. It´s a Kindle Countdown Deal, so if you check out the book page, you´ll see how long until the price goes back to normal. Here are the links:

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RIFT - Scene 13

I have another RIFT scene for you guys, and today we join Sue on her first patrol in enemy territory.

Before we head out with the Janissaries of the Covenant, I just want to mention that I had a friend over in Oxford, England do a little fact- checking for me for a scene from my Super Secret Project. The SSP is (naturally) a book, and it will be released sometime in 2015. I hope to have it ready by Spring, but I can´t promise anything. But anyway, this scene that I´ve named "One l...