CLOAK OF BLADES progress update
Starting the week at 62,000 words of CLOAK OF BLADES, which puts me on Chapter 13 of 20. Hoping to reach 85,000 words by Friday.
Let’s have a brief excerpt!
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“I didn’t recognize you in the hallway outside. But once I did…I realized that I had survived an encounter with the Worldburner.”
“I really wish they didn’t call me that,” I said.
“Imagine, for a moment, that you were running through the jungle,” she said, voice distant as she gazed at the street. “Then you found yourself face to face with a tiger. And there was nothing, absolutely nothing, you could to defend yourself. But the tiger turned and walked away. That’s what meeting you was like.”
“You know, I have a friend who likes to call me a tigress,” I said. “It’s really annoying.”
She arched a single eyebrow. “Do you always make jokes during serious conversations?”
-JM
I am so excited, the Cloak Mage series has been awesome so far.
On an unrelated note because you consistently publish a book/month and I consistently buy said books my wife has referred to you as Jonathan&insert adjective&Moeller. Use your imagination. She is now on book 2 of Cloak Games on Audible. Loves it. Lol.
LOL, that could be my new pen name. Jonathan F. Moeller. 🙂
I just love the Nadia moran books. I don’t know what it is about them but this series is in my top three and I read ALOT. This is one of those series that is so cool because you can go back and reread them later on and their just as good. Also the books just have a great “flow” to them. One of the things I love about these books is the lore consistency. Nadia’s power level for example doesn’t wildly change for no reason in order to add tension. It’s amazing how many authors do that in books.
The key to writing powerful characters is to understand that 1.) there are different kinds of power and 2.) not every kind of power is useful in every situation. Like, a man who can bench press 300 lbs is physically powerful, but that won’t help him calculate his quarterly taxes. On the flip side, a man who can calculate his quarterly taxes entirely in his head won’t find that useful when he needs to get a couch up a flight of narrow apartment stairs.
Nadia can turn invisible, shoot fireballs, and read minds, but she often finds herself in situations where that wouldn’t be helpful or even counterproductive.