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.

The World of Neveyah

I've been working on the new map for the Tower of Bones Series.  This is the map as it stands now.

I will be adding more towns and creating a second map in Black and White for the print books in this series.

I started with a pencil drawing and then went to colored pencil.  After that I scanned it into MS Paint and began adding texture.

The fonts are all the free ones that come with MS Paint.

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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FORBIDDEN ROAD COVER REVEAL

The Long Awaited Sequel to

Tower of Bones

‘FORBIDDEN ROAD’

Available at Amazon.com

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Stop on by to read Carlie M A Cullen's interview with Connie J Jasperson at http://wp.me/p1UhOl-gE where they discussed writing the series, who Connie would be if she could be any character living or dead. Also Carlie revealed an excerpt from the new book.

FORBIDDEN ROAD

Coming in February 2013 - the long awaited sequel to

 

'TOWER OF BONES'

 

FORBIDDEN ROAD

THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES

 

A ray of light shone on Edwin. Of its own volition the sword Leviathan raised itself aloft to the Goddess. A bell tolled deep and clear, ringing through Edwin’s bones, ringing to his heels and resonating to his very soul, sealing him, binding him. Fervently he swore to wield Leviathan in service to the Goddess and Neveyah.  He was alive with the sound of the bell. The beauty of it was almost unbearable. 

As every fiber of his being resonated, a voice proclaimed “Now begins the quest in earnest. Send now the heroes four to the Shadowed Land. Beware! Beloved, the true task for which you were born begins.  The storm rages, the door opens upon the field of battle. In grief recall the Forbidden Road. The Beloved Hero will rise on the day of redemption. Mist and shadows shroud the truth, but the Hero Foretold shall one day set them free.”

Tears coursed down his cheeks and falling to his knees, Edwin’s eyes were blinded by the radiance of the bell’s tolling through his heart, mind and soul. The knowledge he was loved, overwhelming in its intensity, flooded his being.

Thus begins the Quest of a lifetime. Sorrow, peril and magic await in the Valley of Mal Evol.



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'