Kit Cole's Blog, page 2
December 7, 2013
An ‘A’ Review!
An A? I’m blushing!
Big thanks to Miss Julie Whiteley for her very nice review of Justice for All Time — check it out:
http://www.cluereview.blogspot.ca/2013/12/justice-for-all-time-time-travel.html
October 18, 2013
New review from Jane Hunt!
Another great review!
October 13, 2013
131 miles, 43 hours of walking
A long walk from Mesa Verde!
According to Google Maps, it would take you 43 hours to walk from Mesa Verde to Chetro Ketl in Chaco Canyon.
Pamela passed out in Mesa Verde, but even if we postulate that she awoke further south of that after she travelled back through time, it is still a very long walk.
Also, I originally wrote that she flew into Durango and was driving down to the Talus Dig site, but I no longer believe that she would be heading past Mesa Verde to get there.
I’ll rework it I think that she was dropping off other Professors at spots along the way to the Talus Village dig site.
Excerpt from Justice for All Time
Brendan didn’t stop to check his aim, he trusted it, and immediately turned the gun towards the woman, once again shocked because she had done the same.
It couldn’t have been more than half a minute that they stood like that, but the image of her was seared into his mind.
Dark hair whipping around her small pale face, eyes fixed and confident, stance solid and challenging. And that gun was steady as the grave. She was a magnificent sight.
She was a beauty, and she was dangerous, that registered immediately in Brendan’s mind.
When she lowered her weapon and raised her hand, he added ‘not stupid’ to her list of qualities. He upgraded her intelligence the next day as she skillfully evaded his questions at the accident site, and when she correctly poked holes in his sharp-shooter theory with her shell-casings question, he took the liberty of putting her in the dangerously-intelligent category.
Musing out loud now, he murmured, “But what are you hiding from me?”
- Excerpt from Justice for All Time
October 11, 2013
10,000 words in!
Oh Yeah!
After restarting poor Pamela King‘s story twice, I am now 10k into the first draft and I’m really liking where she is taking me.
This is the fun scene coming up where she finally (and irrevocably) realizes she has been pulled into the past.
She’s already starting to feel hints of it kind of pulling at her consciousness, so this is going to be awesome!
And the scene right after I am going to cut to Chloe so that I can start introducing her storyline slowly (to build to book 2 in the series).
A good day’s work all in all, just wanted to share it with you!
October 3, 2013
Research links for King of Spades
History Channel documentary on the Anasazi peoples (41 minutes)
I needed a post to start collecting all the research I am doing for book 1 in the King Series:
Research on the Pueblo people
Manta clothing of Pueblo women
Land-use history of the Mesa Verde area
Encyclopaedia entry on the ancient Pueblo peoples
The mystery of the Anasazi
The Smithsonian’s page on the Anasazi
Evolution of the Pueblo peoples
Peoples of the Chaco era
Leaders of the Anasazi
September 27, 2013
Incredible find: archeological sites in the Mexico
Noted archeological sites from the Mexican History site
I’m very excited by this map because my King of Spades (and her parents before her) were archaeologists. Picking out where the key events are going to happen in the first book in the series is VERY exciting!
Incredible find: archeological sites in the SW United States
Noted archeological sites from the Mexican History site
I’m very excited by this map because my King of Spades (and her parents before her) were archaeologists. Picking out where the key events are going to happen in the first book in the series is VERY exciting!
September 25, 2013
A NEW map for Pamela King
The four corners area of the United States, comprising southern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado where Pamela King will be pulled into the past.
A NEW map for Serena King
The four corners area of the United States, comprising southern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northern New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado where Serena King will be pulled into the past.
