I have got to say I love the cover for Issue #5 of UGEEK magazine which contains the fifth chapter of my ongoing noir-fantasy serial Walking Through Walls. While the cover itself is the poster for Filmquest, a local fantasy related film festival, I find it serendipitous in regards to what's happening in my tale - specific to this installment Silence Falls on Tolburn's Walls (the title of which is a nod to Robert E. Howard's - Silence Falls on Mecca's Walls)
So, just saying for the sake of my friends here who are avid pulp fans - you of course recognize that elder being who dreams...
I am so pleased with where its going - oft times I don't even know where its taking me until I write it.
Keeping the readers attention with a serial is equivalent to a hardcore workout and I'm feeling it - but I'm also feeling those writing muscles growing too.
Overall this is one of those lessons where you have to push yourself to grow and improve and I am a firm believer in eternal progression.
From the intro:
The story so far:
Kenaz, an information
broker, can step outside his own body to gather secrets. He has been
blackmailed by multiple sinister parties. If he doesn’t give them what they
want—a powerful artifact known as The Reliliqy—many lives besides his own will
pay the price. He has less than a day to get it all together… He has overcome
being poisoned and the demonic worm of Vavath, now he just needs to steal The
Reliliqy from the city’s most powerful Sorcerer…
Chapter 5. Silence Falls on Tolburn’s Walls
Enjoy...
