Book completed! Fortune's Forge

BOOOOOK!

I began this story early in the pandemic, whilst recovering from being run over by COVID. My idea was to write something that would make good comfort reading for myself, and replace some of the joy slowly but inexorably being sucked out of so many of my old favourites by the stately revolutions of the Dance of the Suck Fairy. It began as more than half a writing exercise - an attempt to write a quick-and-dirty pulp romp of about 60K written on the extended Lester Dent Master Plot model - and has, of course, mushroomed into the inevitable and not-quite-so-pulpish trilogy.

I don't remember any yarn I've had so much sheer fun spinning.

I'm currently about two-thirds of the way through my first pass on Book 2. That's how far I needed to get in order to understand how the last missing section of the first book actually needed to go. But it's done now, and I have a clean first draft of Book 1 at last!

A great bouncing is seen upon the face of the land.

It's rather hard for me to condense into an elevator pitch just now, so instead I offer the following slightly tongue-in-cheek Dreamwidth blurb, behind the cut...

( Fortune's Forge - a fantasy of commonwealth, agency, and infallibly cunning plans. )