Sorry for the gap in posting, life is busy exploding up here in the frozen north. Moving people is always fun, and I have multiple friends moving all at once.
Anyways, without further ado, the blurb for City In The Sky – my third novel completed.
Erik Tarverro is the half-human, half-Aeradi grandson of one of his home city’s finest blacksmiths. Despite learning his grandfather’s trade, the Guild refuses to accept him as a full member. When a stranger who knew his father arrives in the city and tells him that he has family among his father’s people, in the floating city of Newport, he gladly leaves his home behind to learn more of his family.
Discovering in Newport he is the sole heir to a noble family believed about to die out, he is quickly dragged into politics and rites of passage. Sent on a trade voyage across the nearby continent in one of the city’s might air ships, he learns about a brewing war between his father’s people and the dragon-riders who challenge them for mercantile supremacy.
Even as he tries to quietly settle into his new life, his father’s blood draws him into ever higher circles of the city’s leaders and defenders – and into the heart of a battle no one was expecting to fight at all!
City of the Sky takes place in the world of Cevran, a setting that I have copious and copious quantites of notes, including detailed outlines of at least one and possibly two more books, as well as rough outlines of five or six more. It is a twist on a standard fantasy, with humans and dwarves, but no readily identifiable elves (though several species could be considered varieties of elf).
It was written, mostly, because the idea of airships struck me at an inspirable moment, and everything developed from there. In the end, its a story about culture clash and family, and how one can pull you through the other and bring you to love somewhere new.
In retrospect, it is quite possible that at least some of the emotional impact of Erik’s journey to Newport was shaped by my own experiences moving from Canada to the UK and South Africa when I was younger – in fact, the novel was partially written during my time in South Africa.
Given the degree of setting detail I have written up in various files on Cevran, not to mention the plot arc of an entire war that is written down somewhere, I actually intend to return to this setting at some point in the future. This is the first of the books I’ve written that is true of, though not the last.
(Both the ONSET and Fealty universes are also intended to be returned to – I have 20k words of the To Serve and Protect sequel and am semi-actively working on the Changeling sequel)
Namaste all,
Glynn Stewart
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