Heart of a Traitor is complete

*Trumpets and Fanfare*

I am happy to announce that Heart of a Traitor is finally complete. YAY! :)

Woot! It feels like I just finished running a marathon, but I am so proud of the results. This started out as a simple revision, something that would just take a few week, but turned into a massive and complete rewrite. I can honestly say that this book contains some of my best writing to date.

Those of you who know me will recognize the way that many of my experiences over the last year have metastasized their way into the story. That is how the creative process works. Everything you experience and everything you are becomes the catalyst for creation, and becomes integrated in what comes out of you.

This is a story about choosing to hope. This is a story about having things happen to you that change who you are. This is a story about recognizing what you have lost. This is a story about forgiveness.

Sometimes I worry a little that people might be a little surprised because the tone is so completely different from my other works. This is some pretty heavy stuff, but this story is very dear to me and really comes straight from my heart, so I think that ultimately you have to be true to yourself and stand by what means a lot to you, so that is what I will do. :)


Here's the pitch:
Humanity is on the brink of collapse. Psychic entities formed from a million of years of negative emotions are waging a war with a single purpose: The destruction of all humans. What is worse, is that many humans have become traitors, worshiping these demons and serving them in exchange for power. The Confederacy is desperately trying to hold back the tide, but they are running out of ships, and they are running out of soldiers.

Nariko and here people are not traitors, but when their planet was besieged their desperate leaders turned to the Demon God Drak'Nal and sold the souls of their people to it in return for the power to defeat their enemies.

Now Nariko and her people wander the stars, hunted by both sides, desperate to find a way to end their curse and free their souls from bondage. But they are running out of time, for the curse is slowly turning them into demons themselves.




Now is the fun part, I get to hand over the manuscript to my crack team of editors for revisions, and once those are done we are ready to publish. :) I'm still waiting on some of the internal artwork, but the cover art is already complete, I just can't figure out how to include it to this blog post. :(

Next week I will begin working on Book 2 of the Isle Of Wysteria series. The title will be, Isle of Wysteria: The Reluctant Queen.