3 Green Fish

Well, I took a little break over the weekend to recharge, and then another couple days after that to recover from my weekend break. Whew. Now I’m back in the game and churning out pages again. The lesson? Take a break every week. Who would have thought?

I made some progress moving things along today. Now that the tongue is fully introduced, I can move on to other matters. I’m going to have to be prolific if I still want to finish part 1 by the end of the month, and average 2 pages a day to boot, but I think I might still be able to manage it. We’ll see.

I also wrote a preliminary “jacket synopsis” today. This would be the sort of thing that you’d find behind the front cover of a hardback (or on the back of a paperback). Mostly, I just wanted to start the attempt to come up with a synopsis of this story, since every time I get asked about it, I give some long confusing rambling answer as to what the story is about. So, this might put some stuff in context. It might not. It’s a work in progress.

The synopsis:

Bandolor O’Sorce has a problem. His theories of magic, branded heretical by the church that governs sorcery in the land of Tindol, are close to being verified. When last he tried to bridge the gap between his world and another, the spell went disastrously awry, sucking away his apprentice and depositing a strange young woman in his place. Bandolor needs a new apprentice to finish his research, and he is quickly running out of time.

Adrianna Jordan has a problem. Whisked away to a distant world in a magical accident, she is far from home and haunted by the memory of her boyfriend’s death. Trapped in strange and terrifying land, her only hope of returning home is to become Bandolor’s apprentice and help him try to open a gateway back to her own world — a risky enterprise in a land where no woman has ever been allowed to learn the art of sorcery.

Ellia Shepherd has a problem. In love with the local blacksmith’s son, she can’t ever seem to get his attention. Perhaps sorcery might help her out….

The Tongue of Erskavit O’Sorce has a problem. Used and abused since being cut out of its owner’s throat centuries ago, the tongue is ready for revenge, and woe to all who stand in its way.

When sorcerer, foreigner, shepherd’s daughter and tongue meet, their lives will never be the same again.

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