This is my works in progress page. Here is where you'll find out about what I'm writing now and what to expect from me in the future.
I'd love feedback from you all. After all in many ways my job is to bring you stories that you love and enjoy so if there is one or more of the works below that you would like to see more than others, than let yourself be heard and it could certainly effect what I work on when. So please drop me a line at: michael.sullivan.dc@gmail.com.
Riyria Chronicles Book #1: The Crown Tower
Status: 100% Written; structural edits from Orbit incorporated; beta reader feedback incorporated; In production with Orbit for copy/line edits
This is the first book in the new series that explores past events of Royce and Hadrian. This particular one is twelve years in the past and shows how two guys (who really didn't initially get along) went on their first job together. It is scheduled for release in August 1, 2012.
Riyria Chronicles Book #2: The Rose and Thorn
Status: 100% Written; structural edits from Orbit incorporated; beta reader feedback in process.
This is the second book and occurs about a year after the events in The Crown Tower. It explores the details of events lightly touched upon in The Crown Tower.
Rose: "I also wouldn't own The Rose and Thorn if it wasn’t for you. There’s a very good chance I wouldn't even be alive."
Royce: "I have no idea what you speak of, Your Ladyship."
Antithesis
Status: 100% Written. Major re-write in process.
This is a book from my past (I wrote 13 novels before starting The Riyria Revelations), which has been stripped down to its foundation and rebuilt. Early feedback indicated this book needed substantially more work, I'm in the process of revising it now. The thirty word description of the book goes like this:
Two opposing individuals possess limitless magic, providing the universe balance. An unexpected death transfers this power to an unsuspecting bystander who is clueless of the consequences of his newfound abilities.As many people judge a book by the marketing copy on the back, I'm providing this below. If the book sounds interesting to you, please use the button to be notified when it is available.
Have you ever wondered how the world will end?
No? Well don’t sweat it. Most people don’t, and the few that do expect the cause will be a dramatic change in climate, a pandemic, or mostly likely war. That’s what we’ve all been taught to believe, and we’re comfortable with rational explanations. But people weren’t always so quick to accept the facts provided by the so-called experts. There used to be a time when we believed in myth and magic. Our minds were open to the idea of believing in what can’t be seen…the fantastical.
I had been like you until I met Winston Stewart; the day I learned to believe that there are other forces at work—not the least of which is fate. Fate is an amazing thing. It put Gandhi in South Africa, Nelson at Gibraltar, and Winston Stewart on that train in Alexandria Virginia.
You say you don’t know who Winston Stewart is? Don't worry...You will.
Hollow World
Status: 100% complete, edits from Robin incorporated, Beta reader feedback in process, Submitted to Orbit for publication consideration.
Ellis Rogers is running out of time, but what does that matter to a man with his own time machine.
A Detroit factory worker who’d always played it safe and done the right thing is rewarded with unemployment, a loveless marriage, and a terminal illness. Now with nothing to lose, he’s willing to take an insane gamble. It’s in his garage. He’s worked on it for months. All he has to do is press the red button, but he can only go forward with no control over how far. If it works he’ll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and the cost of paradise. If he’s lucky, if he survives, he could find more than a cure for his illness, he might find what everyone has been searching for since time began.
Rhune: Book One of The First Empire Series
Status: World Building in process 95% complete
I've been "thinking" about it for the last few years and started "real" work on 2/2/2013. I should actually "start writing" by 2/20/2013. In the Riyria Revelations, mankind worships Novron the Great, a demigod (son of God Maribor) who took Persephone as his wife and built the original capital Percepliquis in tribute to her. The Riyria Revelations has many references to Novron and his deeds, primarily surrounding his defeat of the elves and the saving of mankind. So, you might think you know this story...but you'd be wrong. In this series I'm going to be exploring the differences between myth and legend and the truth of incidents that occurred thousands of years in the past. Like The Riyria Revelations, I plan to write this series in its entirety before publishing the first book in the series, so this may be a while in coming. But if you are interested and want to be notified when it is coming out use the button below:
I've been "thinking" about it for the last few years and started "real" work on 2/2/2013. I should actually "start writing" by 2/20/2013. In the Riyria Revelations, mankind worships Novron the Great, a demigod (son of God Maribor) who took Persephone as his wife and built the original capital Percepliquis in tribute to her. The Riyria Revelations has many references to Novron and his deeds, primarily surrounding his defeat of the elves and the saving of mankind. So, you might think you know this story...but you'd be wrong. In this series I'm going to be exploring the differences between myth and legend and the truth of incidents that occurred thousands of years in the past. Like The Riyria Revelations, I plan to write this series in its entirety before publishing the first book in the series, so this may be a while in coming. But if you are interested and want to be notified when it is coming out use the button below:
Fall of Percepliquis
Status: Gathering feedback from readers who would like to read this.
In The Riyria Revelations, references are made to the fall of the original Empire when Percepliquis was destroyed and the Heir of Novron went into hiding. This book would take place 1,000 years prior to the incidents of The Riyria Revelations and would feature the Wizard Esrahaddon and Jerish, the first Guardian of the Heir. If you are interested and want to be notified when it is coming out use the button below:
A Burden to the Earth
Status: 100% Written; 100% Edited; 100% Read by Robin. Currently on hold until other projects under development are completed.This book is much different than my fantasy writing, and in many ways is the antithesis of The Riyria Revelations. It’s the book that made me quit writing when I couldn’t get it published. Riyria is fast-paced, written in a simple style, and contains a sweeping epic involving likeable characters. A Burden to the Earth is a very simple tale about a complex man and his very small life. In this book I concentrated on constructing the prose and so it reads much differently than the simple, straightforward style I used with Riyria. If you are interested and want to be notified when it is coming out use the button below:
He learned values from Gunsmoke, ethics from Father Knows Best, and hisA child of the fifties, Elliot Myers believed his parents, his teachers, his priest, and television when they promised him the American dream. Now at forty, and still living in his mother’s tiny condominium, he knows they all lied. Embittered by a world that moved ahead and left him behind, Elliot finds one last chance to free himself of forty years of waiting and makes his first, and final, grasp at life. Set in the early 1990’s A Burden to the Earth explores regret over lost innocence, nostalgia for the past, and the costs of dwelling on both.
place in the world from Ozzie & Harriet, but his life turned out much different.
