I have been very busy on re-writing the first book. I have completely changed the beginning and I feel the new result gives a much stronger and more vibrant feel to the world and the characters. Also with the geography of Aerinth changing I felt it was necessary to start them physically closer to their goal.
Book Three, The Acquisitioners: Chronicles Volume One is complete! At least in first draft. I finished it a few days ago and I am extremely pleased with the results. The book comes is about 93000 words.
It was a difficult task. My life has been extremely busy these last few months. Through my other job, I have been traveling back to Europe, hitting Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, and my long missed England. I must say, jet lag does not help the writing process.
The plan was to now go straight back to work on a revision of Book Two, but a sample of Book One has been requested so I, as always, feel the need to go back through it and give it a little more polish. Actually, I have come up with a completely new beginning, one I feel is much, much stronger than what is already there. So I will be diligently working on that for a while, or at least as much as I can between my next trip to Washington DC and also one back to Italy.
While working on the new secret project I am also working hard and diligently on Book Three, and I can finally see the end coming near. In the next week or two, if luck is on my side, I should have the rough draft of it completed! I am very excited about this, there is a lot in it that is completely new to me in terms of writing styles, so to have it be done will be for me a great achievement.
Once that is done, and as I juggle the other projects I will be going back full speed for a complete rewrite of Book Two; The Gem of the Gods.
Sorry for the long delay, things have been busy, but in a good way. I have been asked to work on a currently un-disclosed project, which I am very excited about. It is always heartening when others find your skills desirable for their projects.
I have started this project and soon hope I can share with everybody what it is about. It is hard to gauge how long this will take, but I will be shortly devoting a large amount of my time to it.
The Characters Page has been updated. For anybody new to the series it gives a nice overview of who Lalliard and Macal are.
I will be adding that information as a preface page to the sample story so that readers can start off with a more familiar relationship with the characters.
Thank you very much for all the kind words, I am glad the sample of The Chamber of the Heart short-story is being so well received! All the initial reviews have been favorable.
I would like to give a big thank you James Russell for his tremendous help in getting the sample ready to be released. Thank you very much for taking so much of your personal time to get this story out to the world.
There is good news for all of you who have asked for more stories to read. While not part of the Acquisitioners saga I have updated the Stories section to include the published Lejends Magazine stories. I have also posted the third story from the set for you to read!
A 47-page sample of The Chamber of the Heart is now available for download!
Please download a copy, read it, and then let us know what you think. And please pass it around!
I choose this story to use as the sample because I feel it gives the reader a good sense of the world and the characters.
The complete short story is 32,197 words and 74 pages long. It is the first story in The Acquisitioners: Chronicles Volume One novel.
I hope you enjoy it!
K.R.Bourgoine’s 4th successive story in Gary Gygax’s Lejendary Magazine will be in print as of May 1st!
This latest story, Meselin and the Lost City, continues to chronicle Meselin, The Master of Lore and Arcana and his dangerous exploration of the crafting of great extraordinary and magical artifacts. This time Meselin is not just witnessing the mystical item’s past he is sucked and trapped into it!
Several long pages of the latest story were written today. Currently it is still untitled. Normally about halfway through writing a story the name just appears. Half the time I start with a name and the other half it just comes along when it’s ready. Each of the short stories in The Acquisitioners: Chronicles Volume One has a very different feel but are still all of the same vein.
The Chamber of the Heart is filled with a good deal of introspection on Macal’s behalf about his struggle in dealing with Lalliard’s highly aggressive tactics and mentality while the world starts to turn into chaos around them.
The Wizard of Fate is the opposite of The Chamber of the Heart and is clearly based around Lalliard and his past. A good deal of Lalliard’s history is shown as he is forced to help the Counsel of Xazarnth, the school of magic, in tracking down a renegade wizard who threatens to betray all wizards to their deaths at the hands of the Lumar Olrmar.
The Shell of Oblight is a pure action-adventure tale that takes the Acquisitioners from Airesbornia, the Plane of Fire, all the way to the ocean depths of Asonia as they battle the wicked cunning elf named Osthen the Cruel.
The forth and untitled tale is a murder-mystery in a fashion that could only be an Acquisitioners story. With some of the other stories being very emotionally delving this story of its own accord became a more lighthearted less dark tale. With neither character collapsing into the misery that so often plagues them. Instead it becomes an entertaining sarcastic story of finding the murderer of their quasi-friend Galem Gorn.
Introspection, Forced assignments, Action-Adventure, and Murder-mysteries.
The Acquisitioners do it all.
The new web server is now up and running. There should be a good speed increase in viewing the website.
You can now buy Adventurer T-shirts, cups, stickers and more at our Café Press Store.
