David Kernot

Archive for October, 2009

I’m pretty happy with my cover, it’s awesome, and so thought that I’d post it on my site as inspiration to continue with Book 3 and the long slog that is polishing and editing a long epic story.

The cover is from the scene in the first book, where Ethan faces the lightening storm up in the Flinders Rangers and battles wizards from Morac in the process.  I won’t tell you what happens – you’d never read the book otherwise.

I also had to re-write the first chapter, actually I dropped chapter one completely, and it became back-story (in my mind only and does not exist in the modified one) to help with the writing.  Chapter two became chapter three, and chapter three became the introductory chapter, along with a new summation that I wrote on the first page.  Took me all of the past three months to sort it all out, but the results are encouraging.

Obviously, I don’t have a publisher yet, nor am I going to self-publish… this is just inspiration to keep at it, and one day, I wouldn’t mind the cover looking a bit like this, perhaps.

Oh, and those in the know – I got my letter of offer today – of course I said yes.

Current Mood:  excited

A while ago I did a review of Richard Harland’s Steampunk story, WorldShaker.  It was a fantastic read.  Richard has just emailed me to let me know he is working on the next in the series – which is great news, and I wish him good luck with it.  I hope it is even half as good as WorldShaker was, and then it would still be a very good read.  If it was better than WorldShaker, then even better for us the reader.

So, to cut and paste Richard’s email, he has some exciting news for us…

“I’ve just started the sequel to Worldshaker – TODAY! – and I’ve just started blogging for a month as writer in residence on the insideadog website – also TODAY! – so I’m recording exactly what happens day by day. A blood, tears, sweat, agony-ecstasy account of how the writing’s going – like a soapie, but ten times more wild and crazy and violent. If you’re interested, the writer in residence page is at -

http://www.insideadog.com.au/residence/index.php”

Richard is a wonderfully warm and at times a terribly funny man.  Go and have a look and follow his trials and tribulations, I’m sure it will be a hoot… I hope you don’t mind Richard, I’ve just told the world.

Current Mood:  pleased