my 11 favorite GHOSTS scenes of 2014
Note that this post has SPOILERS for the entirety of THE GHOSTS books to date!
In 2014 I wrote three complete GHOSTS novels – GHOST IN THE COWL, GHOST IN THE MAZE, and GHOST IN THE HUNT, along with the first draft of GHOST IN THE RAZOR.
As I mentioned with the FROSTBORN post, some scenes are more fun to write than others. Of course, this often has no bearing whatsoever on which scenes the readers enjoy most. On multiple occasions, I’ve heard something that I threw in or changed at the last minute was a reader’s favorite scene or line in the book, whereas no one notices something I planned to put in for months. It is always amusing to see how it shakes out, and THE GHOSTS books are no different.
That said, now that GHOST IN THE RAZOR has been out for a week, here are the 11 GHOSTS scenes that I enjoyed writing the most in 2014:
11.) Caina, Damla, and the lice in GHOST IN THE COWL.
10.) Caina bluffing her way into joining the circus in GHOST IN THE COWL.
9.) Caina terrorizing Ulvan and the other Master Slavers in GHOST IN THE COWL.
8.) The destruction of the Widow’s Tower in GHOST IN THE COWL.
7.) Pretty much any time Nerina Strake says something.
6.) Caina’s and Nasser’s escape from Grand Master Callatas’s Maze through the netherworld in GHOST IN THE MAZE.
5.) Caina realizing who the gladiator is in GHOST IN THE RAZOR.
4.) Nerina attempting to ask Caina how to seduce the gladiator in GHOST IN THE RAZOR.
3.) Caina realizing that she had miscalculated and that Kalgri had been hunting her, not Martin Dorius, all along in GHOST IN THE HUNT.
2.) Caina’ s confrontation with The Sifter in the laboratory of the Craven’s Tower in GHOST IN THE RAZOR.
1.) Caina’s final fight with Kalgri in Silent Ash Temple in GHOST IN THE HUNT.
-JM