Luke R.J. Maynard
I've got a couple of stages at various stages of completion:
1.There's "Heartblood," a revisionist take on a classic fairy-tale, which is much different from most of the fantasy I write;
2.There's "The Season of the Cerulyn," the next book in the Travalaith Saga;
3.I'm working on a crooked retelling of Beowulf in the style of a popular children's book. It's murderously hard because I'm trying to maintain a modern rhyme-scheme popularized by Dr. Seuss and others AND the alliterative metre of Old English poetry simultaneously:
"HOW WE HAVE HEArd of the legends and lays
Of the ever-wise earls in the eldest of days..."
There are a few other side projects too of mixed seriousness. Right now, almost all my time is going toward "The Season of the Cerulyn." The first book in the series has been really well received, and I feel that now I owe it to those generous readers to get Book II to press as soon as I can. Nobody should ever badger an author to hurry up; but by the same token, I don't want to troll readers by dropping a cliffhanger and then going off to work on ten other things.
1.There's "Heartblood," a revisionist take on a classic fairy-tale, which is much different from most of the fantasy I write;
2.There's "The Season of the Cerulyn," the next book in the Travalaith Saga;
3.I'm working on a crooked retelling of Beowulf in the style of a popular children's book. It's murderously hard because I'm trying to maintain a modern rhyme-scheme popularized by Dr. Seuss and others AND the alliterative metre of Old English poetry simultaneously:
"HOW WE HAVE HEArd of the legends and lays
Of the ever-wise earls in the eldest of days..."
There are a few other side projects too of mixed seriousness. Right now, almost all my time is going toward "The Season of the Cerulyn." The first book in the series has been really well received, and I feel that now I owe it to those generous readers to get Book II to press as soon as I can. Nobody should ever badger an author to hurry up; but by the same token, I don't want to troll readers by dropping a cliffhanger and then going off to work on ten other things.
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