Okay, so I’ve been chugging away at this new Fantasy and I got this email from a new Millennium Potion reader:
“I loved Millennium Potion! I had to force myself to stop reading when it was 2am so I could get some rest before work in the morning and then reading it was the first thing I did when I got home.
I like the futuristic twist put on the fountain of youth thing, which was immediately what came to my mind once I got the gist of what was going on. And I was so tired of stories where good-guys were good and bad-guys were bad, though I am always a sucker for good vs bad stories, I tend to settle for what I can get. So I very much enjoyed your characters and the good-guys who were technically bad-guys doing the job of good-guys while helping the good-guys who were treated like bad-guys by society, and the bad-guys who didn’t know they were bad-guys, and the ones who were forced to be bad-guys, and then the nutjobs who were definately bad-guys, and then the all-important uber-bad-guy who you don’t actually get to meet in the story but you get to hear plenty about. Okay, that sentence gave me a bit of a headache, lol, and I was told once by a school-teacher once that if you can say a sentence with one breath then it qualifies as a sentence on paper and I can say that sentence with only one breath without being winded or tongue-tied, rofl.
I love your writing style, you give just enough description that I can get the image in my head but not too much that my imagination has no work to do, I’ve always believed ever since i was little that reading is like having a tv in your head and I really enjoyed the show you put on in my head… if that sentence makes any sense. You portrayed your characters’ individuality very well without detracting from the storyline and I think Stuart is my favourite character out of them all, his personality is just so darned adorable.
And I admire your lack of cussing, not having swears did not lessen the dialogue or the tale in any way. I can now do my I-told-you-so dance to anyone who disagrees with me ^_^.
I can say with 100% surity that if that could be bought in a book store I would definately buy it so I could take it with me anywhere and read it repeatedly, if I had money to spend on frivolities. Stupid economy. And I desperately would like to know what happens next.
So all-in-all it was very good I like liked it a lot a lot a lot and I have just started reading Outer Bounds and it’s very interesting. I love reading anything with made up words and termanologies that I have to learn and remember in order to keep up with the tale. And I can only wish I could write something as exciting as that, I’ve been writing since I was nine (got the quill award when I graduated from elementary school, they’d tell us to write three pages, I’d write thirty, lol) and I still can’t seem to slap on a personally satisfying ending to anything. So I admire anyone who can write so incredibaly.”
…Uh. Wow. Emails can’t get much better than that.
(On second thought, they probably can. For instance, if I were to get an email from my agent that said something to the effect of, “Sara, we’ve got eight different major publishers in a bidding war over three of your series and the agency’s been fielding calls from six different Hollywood movie studios clamoring for the rights to your last eight novels…” Yeah. I’d probably pee myself.)
In the fantasy department, I’m slowly building the world from the ground up. This one’s gonna be complicated, folks—-think the After Earth series. 12k into it and I’ve already got about twenty-five named species, sub-species, races, and political castes. Granted, they’re not all in there just yet, but they will be, and more. I’m taking the complexity I had with After Earth and giving it epic fantasy’s length to experiment. Should be fun
If you’re interested in getting on this particular bandwagon, give me a shout at kingnovel@gmail.com. I’ll sign you up for installments a la Outer Bounds, back when I was still writing the first book.
Also, on the Outer Bounds subject, the original novel was named in the first ten minutes of writing, when I was staring at a mostly-blank screen and had to save my Word doc under SOMETHING or risk losing it in a hard-drive crash. (Yeah, you know those screen-freeze-up-and-everything-implodes-while-your-computer-eats-your-work thingies that you have all the time? I have them too… It sucks.) Finding yourself having to create that working title out of the Void, with two hours of work hovering in the ether, and only a rudimentary idea of the details of the novel to come, will always be the most mind-numbingly painful blank screens you’ll ever have to look at.
Sooo… Because Outer Bounds has proven itself to be the first in a series, I’m going to have to rename it. First, Outer Bounds never really jived with the theme of the book. Second, it’s hard to match it to a series, since it’s more of a stand-alone title. With that in mind, the SERIES of the Outer Bounds world is now named the Lords of Fortune. The first book (formerly Outer Bounds) is now tentatively titled Coalition Sky. Book 2, formerly called Lords of Fortune, (and I know I’m getting confusing, but bear with me) will now be called Silent Revolt. Still working on ideas for the others, and I’m sure I’ll change it again as time goes on. (If you’ve got title ideas, please dear GOD tell me…) But for now, those are the working titles. Book 1, Lords of Fortune: Coalition Sky and Book 2, Lords of Fortune: Silent Revolt.
The other bit of news is that no, I haven’t forgotten about the Lords of Fortune series, nor did I forget about the Millennium Potion series. I will write them ASAP, but I’m kind of taking a break from the sci-fi long enough to write a goodly-sized fantasy. How long it will take generally depends on how long it takes me to fall into a groove. Once I’ve got my little writing buddy solidly on my shoulder again, it should only take a month or so to produce a rough draft. Then, once I’ve got that under my belt, I’ll probably flip a coin to see whether it’ll be M.P. or Lords of Fortune next.
-Sara King
www.kingfiction.com
Proud Graduate of Odyssey ‘08