by ladipaolo | Wed Nov 2019 | My Blog (c )
Today, I thought I’d share a chapter from the upcoming Eruption (Book 2 of Conquerors of K’Tara). The scene is at Horn’s Pass, Prince Toras’s fortress in the northwest of the kingdom, the place where our heroes first encountered and fought the...
by ladipaolo | Mon Nov 2019 | My Blog (c )
Tonight, I reached the 96% point in Book 2 of Conquerors of K’Tara, while finishing a scene between Prince Toras and his prima, Laiella Lux Baiula, who are discussing the news about his father’s decision to invade Zebulonia within a fourth or two, and...
by ladipaolo | Sun Oct 2019 | My Blog (c )
So, because several someones told me that it matters that I continue to share what goes on with the novel, I will share this particular difficulty I’ve been facing for a few days now, the resolution of which may introduce little or entire new twists in the...
by ladipaolo | Fri Sep 2019 | Science in Fiction
You may or may not know that there exists an international philosophical movement called Transhumanism, which argues for the transformation of humanity through the adoption of advanced existing or yet-to-be-developed technologies in order to bring about our...
by ladipaolo | Fri Sep 2019 | My Blog (c )
Today, I am not writing about my novel but about a topic I have been passionate about since I was a teen, that is: trying to understand humanity’s impact on our world and on our environment, and to understand whether it is really as bad as many say, and if so,...
by ladipaolo | Mon Aug 2019 | My Blog (c )
Lusk’s Song (Insanity) was born as a single quatrain in Forebodings, where Lusk Methrim sang it during the testing of his healing abilities by the Lux Baiulae. Adam R. Watson so loved to sing those four lines for the audiobook that he asked if I would finish the...
by ladipaolo | Mon Aug 2019 | My Blog (c )
As I communicated last month, I am busy, these days, with so many projects that I have little time to provide updates, except for updating the stats counter on my web site which shows the percent complete for Eruption (Book 2 of Conquerors of K’Tara) and for the...
by ladipaolo | Wed Jul 2019 | My Blog (c )
This week I had a voluntary Groundhog day when Adam R. Watson, my narrator, sent me the file for the mixed, but not yet final, rendition of Insanity (a.k.a Lusks’s song) with vocals and instruments. I have been playing it repeatedly since yesterday, at work, in...
by ladipaolo | Fri Jul 2019 | My Blog (c )
It has been a few weeks since I have posted anything, so I thought that I would do so today as I am at a good point in most of my projects. The writing of Eruption, Book 2 of Conquerors of K’Tara, is progressing at a good pace, and it is becoming more and more...
by ladipaolo | Thu Jun 2019 | My Blog (c )
I do not doubt that, by now, most of my followers are aware that Amazon will begin production of The Wheel of Time TV Series this fall (you can find a succinct summary of what is known on the DragonMount website and a fairly extensive and balanced discussion on the...
