Necropolitan

[klward]

Tonight is Samhain. This would ostensibly appear to bear no relation to the fact I am at long last announcing the completion of

Necropolitan Act I

But I have had too much experience of synchronicity to doubt. One gate closes, another opens.

 

Necropolitan picks up more or less directly from the end of Necromance. Which was fraught to say the least, but Victoria Ashe isn't one to let betrayal, injury and the death of loved ones slow her down. Now her grudge against the necromancers is personal... which may be affecting her judgement. Really, she has been acting quite rashly of late, and some of her principles seems to be slipping. Jamal, of course, has his own problems. My beta readers know what they involve.

There has been a quite unreasonable delay since my last post concerning the start of this book. This is firstly because of  substantial changes to the last Act of Necromance. This section of Necropolitan has been rewritten twice totally from scratch and now actually resembles part of a novel, instead of a tract by some kind of Left Hand apologist cut with architectural panegyrics. There has also been a great deal of research involved, due to the new terrain and cast. Research requiring a wholly disproportionate amount of physical activity, including searching Rookwood Cemetery for individual graves and climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge. But at one point, it also saw me ransacking the Australian Dictionary of Biography in search of a man who did not exist. I had simply formed the impression that he did. Lady knows, it's not the first time.

 

Pleasingly, my word count is almost exactly on track. With all the ground work now out of the way, the plot firmed up and sections of the latter Acts already drafted, I feel confident of completing the book on schedule, later this year.

 

Happy Samhain, my darkling dears.  Remember not to raise up that which you cannot put down, unless you have the time to read it right through!

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[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

I trying to win LoTto, so I can set up a publishing house to publish it....