BLACK SUN MOON (Book 6 in the Sword and Sorcery Series)
Dylan Doose
Independent
Epic Fantasy
In the beginning there was madness and there was death.
A string of occult murders leads veteran holy-man-with-a-big-sword, Cullum Shrike, to Wardbrook, a treacherous place of pagan practices, corrupt leaders, and sinister sorcery.
Cullum must purge his beliefs as he is forced to face the evil within, for when all light dies, only darkness can kill a shadow.
New heroes join the fray. Are they friend or foe?
Cullum Shrike, warrior priest of the holy Order of Seekers. Haunted by the ghosts of his failures, he clings to his faith even as treachery and insidious betrayal are revealed.
Nyva, the witch, is bound to the black house on the hill. She is stronger than she could imagine, she just needs someone to unlock her latent power.
An unlikely pair, but a pair they do make and when the dancing starts, they might just bring the house down.
Don’t miss this thrilling—and terrifying—stand-alone full-length novel in the dark and gritty Sword and Sorcery series!
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A Bat Out of Hell
Eight hooves of nocturne-black steeds thundered across the prairie, the torches of their riders setting the sweat on their backs to glistening as they charged a firelit cave entrenched in a hillock beyond the moonlit pasture.
A glowing hunter’s moon frowned down from above, thousands of frantic flying silhouettes cast upon it. The bats screamed as they flapped from the cave into the night sky.
A girl screamed from within.
The bats dipped low at the riders.
“We’re too late,” Herres called as the bats shrieked and flapped around them.
“We’re not. We can’t be.” Cullum whacked at the bats with his torch. The faces of the last two victims flashed in his mind’s eye. Not again. I won’t fail again.
As he closed in on the cave and the pagan magic within, his Luminescent-blessed left hand ached with the Bloodburn—a gift possessed by all Seekers, an ability to sense sorcery. Every sorcerer, every beast, every incarnate, every single magical thing gave off a signature Bloodburn. A good Seeker could differentiate between species of creature, legion of demon, discipline of sorcery, by having a strong awareness of their supernatural sense. Cullum was not merely a good Seeker. He was a gifted Vicar, and not only could he make all these differentiations, but by reading the blood the way a scholar reads a tome, he was able to trace all magical discharge back to its caster. He welcomed the pain in his hand. He always did.
Welcome to the blog! The first page
is perhaps one of the most important pages in the whole book. It’s what draws
the reader into the story. Why did you choose to begin your book this way?
Thanks for having me on the blog. This being the first page to the first chapter
of the prequel of the series, I had to be sure to capture a few very important
elements. The world of my series is extremely dark, and I wanted to make that
clear to the reader from the outset. In this world, magic is tied to occultism,
and both the heroes and the villains play with the same fire. I also wanted to
start on a point of high action that stirred questions in the reader’s mind and
simultaneously offered insight into Cullum’s goal and inner conflict.
In the course of writing your book,
how many times would you say that first page changed and for what reasons?
That first page changed very little. Everything else in the story changed
around the very beginning and the very end of that novel. That isn’t always the
case in my writing. I often need to change everything.
Was there ever a time after the
book was published that you wished you had changed something on the first page?
No. To me, that’s a wasteful line of thinking. I write the best book I can
at that moment, and then move to the next, taking everything I’ve learned with
me.
What advice can you give to
aspiring authors to stress how important the first page is?
Your first page is an invitation to the reader. It’s an invitation to
another world. If you don’t make the party intriguing, no one will come.
Dylan Doose is the author of the ongoing dark fantasy series, Sword & Sorcery. He also pens the new weird western series, Red Harvest. His debut novel received honorable mention in Library Journal’s Indie Ebook Awards and was a Shelf Unbound Magazine Notable 100.
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