New book releasing May 1st.
After living twenty years amongst the destroyed lands of Clinderea, Borland and Aria set out on a quest to find the fabled New Land to start a family. As they travel across the broken tundra they are challenged by nature, people, and beast. When Borland finds a broken sword it proves to be more than just a sword. Will the swords powers help them finish the quest or cause them to rethink their future.
I recently had come across author J.D.L. Rosell. I’m not sure if it was through a book funnel author newsletter sign-up event or something similar. Either way, I am very pleased that I did.
I started with his series, The Runewar Saga.
As of right now, there are 2 books in the series with the third one in the works.
Alright, so on to book one
The Throne of Ice and Ash. I found this to be a really good start to the series. The book had a good pace to it. The story was very well written in my opinion. If you like Viking or Norse stories you will find this book to your liking. If you don’t but like good fantasy adventure stories. Well, this book will be to your liking too.
In book one we are introduced to two of the main characters. Bjorn and his sister Aelthena. Both of them will lead off on their separate adventures to save their land.
For the first book, Bjorn comes off as a young somewhat confused man that hasn’t found his place yet. To be honest I wasn’t liking the character in this book. Nothing wrong with the author’s character development. He does an amazing job. I just had hoped Bjorn’s character would have been more fierce. When I hear the name Bjorn, I think of Bjorn Ironside from Vikings. That dude is a badass.
Now his sister, Aelthena on the other hand. She is a take-charge kind of lady. She loves being in control. Her only problem is men are the ones in charge, not women. As book one gets going she will ultimately have to take the reins and figure out how to save their land. I do like her character and hope she stays as strong through the saga as she appears in book one.
The story is well put together and jumps between the two siblings as it lays the framework for the main focus, the runewar. In the first book, we don’t learn anything about what the runewar is. It is more about Aelthena and Bjorn and the fall of their father’s kingdom.
Their father, the king. His character doesn’t get much light in the story. He is ill or ‘sprite touched’ and is mentally unstable. I am kind of hoping he turns out to be the ultimate savor at the end of the saga. Time will tell.
There are a few other characters introduced in this book that play a main part in the story. I will have to touch base on later. This is a very good book that I really enjoyed reading. I had planned on writing more to this post but will have to follow up with another one later.
It is time for me to get ready and head to the hospital for open-heart surgery. I just needed to due something to distract myself from the anxiety building as the surgery time gets closer. So I chose to write this post.
Anyway check out J.D.L. Rosell to learn more about him and his books.
Until next time.
I hope you enjoyed this post.
Hello all.
I am going to try and post a little more frequently on here about writing, my art, my woodworking, books I’m currently reading, video games, and other funt topics. This year is just getting off to a really bad start.
For now, here is a second status update.
I had hoped my recovery would have been smoother than it has been. Unfortunately, it is about to start all over again.
As I had mentioned in my previous post. I had to have open-heart surgery last May. It was to repair a torn mitral valve leaflet. The recovery process has been one bumpy ass road. Without going into too much detail the road to recovery has hit a roadblock. After switching doctors and getting a second opinion on my health. It turns out that the repair has failed and I am going to need open-heart surgery again.
The first open-heart surgery took a major toll on me(physically, mentally, emotionally, & financially). With not being fully recovered from the last one, the wife and I are not looking forward to this second surgery. We are hoping for a better physical, mental, and emotional recovery having gone through it once before. Financially, well that is another story. That one is going to hurt. With my surgery happening on March 23rd. There was no time to prepare for it. I know we will make it through, it is just going to be very tight. Maybe this go-around I will fill well enough while I am out on recovery to promote my digital sales(artwork & Books). I had to put my Etsy store on vacation since it is mostly made-to-order hand-carved pens. They are not easy to make with a healing sternum.
I have not had the opportunity to do much writing but have been doing a lot of reading. I do have a new book in the works, it is just taking a lot longer than planned to get the first draft written. My health tends to have a mind of its own. I have been having some memory and foggy brain issues. We don’t know if they are related to my heart condition or from having Covid. Having tests done to hopefully figure it out.
In the meantime, I would like to share my thoughts on some of the books I have been reading. I will be posting some short reviews of sorts here shortly. Going to try and get one or two posted before my surgery. We will see if it happens though. Trying to get some things done around the house before I am not able to for a while.
That is all for now. Until my next post, enjoy this picture of my Granddaughter helping me wash the cars.
Thought I would give an update to all those who may still be following me or anyone just checking in.
I had to have an emergency open-heart surgery back in May. Had to have my mitral valve repaired. This was a total surprise to me for I didn’t even know I had a heart condition. When I had first visited an urgent care facility they had thought it to be pneumonia. After being sent home with antibiotics and I did not improve over the several days. I ended up getting worse. I could not breathe lying down or sitting up to sleep. On my next visit to urgent care, they found my heart had a murmur. After finding the murmur that led to further tests. The results of the test showed my mitral valve leaking. This put me in the hospital. After more testing and finding my mitral valve severely turn. The surgeon after finding this out said I was not leaving the hospital until my valve was either replaced or repaired.
I spent 13 days in the hospital all together. Now I have been going through a lot of up and down moments as I recover. I have been diagnosed with SVT and had been battling episodes almost every other day. I recently had an SVT ablation done in hope of stopping these episodes. I have had several episodes since the ablation. My cardiologist said these are breakthrough episodes and they are not uncommon to happen during the first couple of months of healing.
I have moments through almost every day that I just don’t feel all that well. Hopefully these go away as I progress through my healing.
Unfortunately, my writing, artwork, and woodworking have all suffered through this. I have temporarily suspended my ETSY shop. There is no way I can handle the stress of getting orders out right now. I hope to lift its suspension in the coming months, as long as I am doing well.
I have been working on my writing but it has been very slow going. My creativity has been subpar during all the up and down moments I have been having.
I was planning on partaking in this year’s NaNoWriMo. Not sure that is going to happen though. At least I don’t think I will pull of 50,000 words. I might get a few thousand in.
I am working on getting better. It appears to be a long recovery process. A lot/ most of the things I had planned to do this year will have to be done next year.
Anyhow. Sorry for such a long post. Just wanted to update anyone who may have been wondering.
If you haven’t already, you can check out my books at all ebook outlets.
Waking Up Dead
Revenge So Sweet
2013: The Harvest
Broken Sword
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Thank you to all those who took the time to read this entire post. It means a lot to me.
On a happier note here is a digital painting I did after watching the new Masters of the Universe series on Netflix
I have decide to put out a series of short stories/ flash fiction stories pertaining to a couple of novels I have in the works. Not sure when these novels will be released they are far from being done, but I wanted to share some of the side adventures with you guys.
Toriana is one of said characters. So to start off we have: Toriana and the Outsider. There will be more to this story shortly, just wanted to share what I have so far. Updates to this story can be found on Wattpad
Toriana grew tired as she waited for her prey. It felt as if she had been sitting in the tree for days now. It had only been a few hours. Since the outsider had arrived, the animals that inhabited the forest had changed their behaviors. Toriana cursed the outsiders. The wind had picked up blowing gently in from the east. Tipping her head up she took in a deep breath through her nose. She had a keen sense of smell, as did the rest of her kind. What was left of her kind that is. That was something else she cursed the outsider about. The hair on the back of Toriana’s neck stood up, as the breath she had taken gave way to the scent of an outsider.
By the strength of the outsiders scent, she could tell they were not too close but also was not too far away. She could either run or stay put. If she stayed this would be her chance to get a good look at these outsiders. She took another deap breath. The scent was that of only one outsider. Toriana had been told by the Elders, that like all animals the outsiders had individual scents. Each one was unique all their own. This one’s scent was definitely unique. She could not quite place what it was, but she kind of liked the smell. She shook her head to clear away the thought of liking the smell of an outsider. She had to focus. Her ears twitched. She turned towards the sound that they had picked up on. Her hearing was just as keen as her smell.
Off to her right, she watched as a wild boar crept out of the brush advancing towards the river bed. “Great. Now, what should I do?” She quietly asked herself. This is what she had been waiting on. If she took a shot at the boar it would squeal in pain and possibly alert the outsider to her location. If she was to let it be and wait to see if the outsider came her way, she may not get another chance to collect food. But what if the outsider did come her way? Then what would she do? She had not thought that through yet.
Having decided to wait and see if she would get to see her first outsider, Toriana watched the wild boar patiently. It lapped at the water, occasionally putting its snout in the water too far causing it to sneeze and shake its head. Every time that would happen the boar’s feet would slip in the soft earth that lined the river bank. Toriana found this all humorous.
The wild boar froze in place, slowly it raised its snout to the air. Seeing the boar act this way made Toriana feel a little uneasy. Her ears twitched, trying to pick up any sounds that were not normal. She followed the boars lead and sniffed the air as well. The unique outsider scent was too strong. How did she not hear the outsider before now? Why is it she could not hear him now?
With her bow in hand and arrow ready to let loose, Toriana waited. She glanced over towards the river bed. The wild boar had fled already. The sound of something metallic drew her attention. She turned to her left slowly as to not make a sound. It had sounded like a metallic click of sorts. She looked out trying to find the source.
From within a small group of evergreens a tall, figure crept out. Slowly placing one foot in front of the other, this outsider made no sound. Toriana was not too sure what it was holding, she had never seen anything like it before. It had to be some sort of weapon, and the source of the metallic sound she had heard. As the outsider crept forward it brought the unknown contraption up placing it against its shoulder, leaning its cheek against it while squinting one eye. It looked to Toriana as if it was looking down the long slender contraption as if it was sighting in on something. She slowly looked in the direction the outsider was looking. The wild boar was back.
“NO!” Toriana cried out. She knew not why she cried out. So what if an outsider kills the boar. She was about to do the same. She instantly knew she had made a mistake.
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Today is the day that 2013: The Harvest finally releases on Kindle.
The paperback and all other digital formats is in the works. I want to add some bonus stuff to the paperback version first before releasing it. As for the other digital formats, for now Kindle has exclusive rights to the book. I will release to: iBooks, Kobo, Sony, and all others at the end of this rights period or I might make a special edition just for those formats.
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