It has been a tough month for writing my own stuff but it looks like I'm going to make my deadline for publishing DARKBLADE at the end of the month. I don't write a lot of dark fantasy but I'm really happy with how this has turned out. Here's an excerpt:
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Liam had
found the sword in the witch wood two days after his 11th birthday.
He knew his
mother didn’t like him playing in the little copse of trees but he hadn’t been
playing; he’d been running from Jude.
Jude was fat
and stupid and mean. And though he was 13, he and Liam were in the same grade
at school.
Liam picked
on the younger, smaller kids, but even the teachers were afraid of him. Because
in addition to being fat and stupid and mean, he was also big, standing nearly
six feet tall with big hands that he could transform into fists like hammers.
He’d hit
their science teacher once and got suspended for a week. Everyone had hoped
he’d be expelled but Jude told his mom that Mr. Safrani had touched in in the
bad places and she had called a lawyer and what had happened was that Jude came
back to school and Mr. Safrani left.
It bothered
Liam that after that, the adults were too scared of Jude to intervene when he
was bullying one of the little kids.
Liam had
mostly mastered the art of being invisible but sometimes, Jude looked right
through his cloak of invisibility and pulled Liam out into the open.
And if that
happened, Liam knew that he was in for a pounding just because Jude liked to
pound people.
And he liked
to take his time. It wasn’t any fun for
Jude if his victims just gave up and passively submitted to his abuse.
Liam liked
chasing down his victims.
He liked
them to run.
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