Mountains of the Moon - new release in the World of Neveyah series

Wynn Farmer is a simple man with a complicated life. A lightning-mage, it is his task to protect the people of Neveyah from the bizarre and dangerous creatures rumored to haunt the Northern trade road.

When peaceful villagers begin vanishing, the trail of evidence leads Wynn and his companions high into the Mountains of the Moon, to a ruined castle, revealing a deadly secret.

Danger, mystery, and dark prophecies, lie deep in a gauntlet of jagged peaks and deadly traps.

Who will survive when the Bull God demands his due?

The Gods are at War, and Neveyah is the Battlefield.

Update - Mountains of the Moon

Mountains of the Moon, the prequel to the Tower of Bones series is now in the second draft stage. The first draft of the manuscript topped out at 138,832 words, and will most likely be trimmed down a bit from that. It was one heck of a fun book to write.

Wynn Farmer has one adventure after another, dragging a young Rall Ivarsson and Jules Brendsson into scrape after scrape, none of them intentional, and all of them hilarious.

A new character, Devyn D'Mal is introduced in MOTM. He is the younger brother of King Daxyn, birth-father of my favorite insane priest of the Bull God, Stefyn D'Mal.  Handsome, witty and somewhat of a bad-boy as are the other three men, Devyn is an earth-mage.

Wynn himself is the polar opposite of his rather well-behaved grandson Edwin.

The search is still on for the artwork for the cover, and work continues in regard to fine tuning the maps and appendices.  A Glossary is in the works for all the Neveyah books.

Work has picked up again on book three of the Tower of Bones series, Valley of Sorrows. The basic plot has been laid out, with the beginning, middle and end, and now I am just expanding on the actual story, connecting the dots.

It's going to be a busy year!

Mountains and Minotaurs

Work is rapidly progressing on the prequel to the Tower of Bones Series.  I am currently writing the final battle scene, and my trusted friend Irene is reading and checking for inconsistencies as I go. Once I have the MS done to the best of my ability it will go to the fabulous Carlie Cullen and we will begin the editing process.  By late this year, this book will be published if we stay on track as we are now.

The bad-ass in this tale is a Minotaur, Kandek.

Kandek is the Highest Priest of the Bull God, Tauron, and he is terrifying. His own people wet their pants when he turns his eyes toward them.

In the world of Neveyah, Minotaurs are the Soldiers of Tauron. They were born normal men, but they've proven by their strength and physical prowess that they are worthy to undergo the terrible ritual that changes them from a normal man to a Minotaur.

The only way for man born into the culture of Serende, Tauron's world, to marry or own property is for him to rise through the ranks of the Legions of Tauron. Thus, every boy trains from birth to be a warrior, and every boy undergoes the Remaking at the age of fourteen, or the age of majority in their culture.

This is why the Legions of Tauron seem to be endless to our embattled heroes in later books. Tauron has no need to use finesse in matters of warfare--he uses sheer numbers overwhelm the opposition.

I am very close to having the entire first draft of this story done.

YAY!

I love Minotaurs.

Mountains of the Moon

Work is progressing on the Mountains of the the Moon, the prequel to Tower of Bones. The editing has begun on the first chapters, and the writing of the final chapters is being finished as we speak.

 

We've found the art for the cover, and will be revamping the original Map of Neveyah for the whole series when Mountains of the Moon is published. New maps have been begun as well as expanded appendices.

 

Mountains of the Moon is Wynn Farmer's story. A reluctant hero, this the tale of Wynn's adventures with Rall Ivarsson, who,  at the time of Tower of Bones is the elderly, beloved and respected leader of the Temple of Aeos. Wynn and Rall go questing along with Jules Brendsson, and Devyn D'Mal.  I confess I've fallen in love with these men! 

 

Wynn Farmer was one of the more interesting characters to write, as were his companions. Mountains of the Moon is in many ways a comedy and takes place in a happier time, when the Lords of D'Mal still ruled the Valley of Mal Evol with kindness and love for the land and the people. The events foreshadow much of what occurs in the Tower of Bones series, and figure largely in John Farmer's story, which is emerging in the writing of Valley of Sorrows, the third and final book in the Tower of Bones series.
 

Muad'Dib byJosé María Pérez Nuñez from Buenos Aires, Argentina

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TOWER OF BONES

TOWER OF BONES

The Novel

by

Connie J Jasperson 

Staggering as he lands hard on his feet, Edwin Farmer looks at his surroundings, startled and completely disoriented. Nothing is as it should be. The huge arc of the sky is dark and unfamiliar stars are brightly shining. The moon hangs high over the horizon, lighting the plain that spreads out before him.  In the distance, a campfire beckons. With his first steps toward that flickering light, Edwin begins the journey of a lifetime.

Forced to become a warrior and a mage, he must transform himself from farm-boy to the hero he was born to be. Prophecy sends Edwin to the one place he never wanted to be, fighting a desperate battle to rescue the woman he loves, but has only met in his dreams.

The Gods are at war and Neveyah is the battleground. Magic and destiny lie waiting in the Tower of Bones.

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Once, long ago, Neveyah was one world.  The Goddess Aeos, Goddess of Hearth and Home guarded it well.  Neveyah bordered upon the world of Cascadia, domain of the Mountain God Ariend.  Ariend was the husband of Aeos, and their worlds lived in harmony and peace.  Neveyah and Cascadia  touched upon the worlds of the other Gods, and all the peoples and creatures of the eleven worlds passed freely from one world to another.

Then came the day when Tauron, the Bull God, God of the desert world of Serende desired to make Aeos his wife. Pretending to seek counsel with Ariend, Tauron took him by surprise, sealing him alive into the haft of a giant spear carved from the very mountains of Cascadia. This spear Tauron then thrust into the earth, creating an immense crater valley. He then began taking Ariend's world, subverting his people.

Aeos, seeking her husband everywhere at last came upon the spear. Seeing her husband entombed there, she begged her mother to help her free him.  The Mother of All was unable to leave the sky, but sent the Almighty Father to help Aeos. He, constrained by the laws of the universe, was unable to free his son, but together with Aeos he devised a plan whereby his son Ariend would one day be free, though it would take many generations.

Despite Tauron's desperate pleas, Aeos refused to wed him, saying 'My husband still lives within the prison of your making. I will oneday free him and all your work will have been for naught.'

Tauron went away, weeping.  He descended even further into madness, and was filled with the obsession to wed Aeos no matter what the cost.

Thus began the War of the Gods, which is played out in the Valley of Mal Evol, which means 'Valley of Sorrows'.

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Coming in 2013 ---> the sequel to Tower of Bones

 

'FORBIDDEN ROAD'