Cayden, Nisa, and their adventures together are consuming nearly all of my time. It's a wonderful sort of consuming though, as the writing and editing is going very well. Three excellent (in my opinion of course) novellas will be gracing virtual shelves in 54 days.
These two started out in a short story called "The Prayers of Another" which has been remastered into the novella "The Lost Prayers". I was inspired by statues trying to communicate through magic. This is actually something that happens quite a lot in these stories. It was in a way inspired by the Weeping Angels of Doctor Who and the moving statues in Dishonored's DLC. I sent the short story to a few places, then tucked it away after the rejections.
Nisa and Cayden showed their faces during an open call for an anthology all about rogues, Blackguards by Ragnarok. I loved so many of the authors in it, and was so happy for a chance at submitting my own story. I wrote "The Red Crown" for that submission, which of course received a rejection. The call of the Muse kept me from doing anything else with them as all she wanted to think about was the Victorian era.
The final story is little more than a scribbled note, but I suspect it will be just as fun as the other ones. I've missed working in a fantasy realm that I've created from scratch. I have tried to keep away from the popular motif of a scruffy dark haired man wandering through a quasi-European kingdom. Instead, I have the perky Nisa and clever Cayden making their way through desserts and sand strewn kingdoms. Magic is creeping just underneath it all, which makes their heists much more thrilling.
BookLyss has given me a chance to return to these great characters, and I'm ecstatic. I haven't gotten all my other projects either, but these two deserve all the attention right now.
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