Mark Henwick's Blog - Posts Tagged "athanate"
Schedules and projects
Book 2 in the Bite Back series, Hidden Trump, is now with the editor. Time to start thinking about blurbs and cover images for Hidden Trump and marketing for Sleight of Hand, both of which were on hold while I was writing.
So what's next?
A short story prequel - Hacha del Diablo.
A short novel - Bian's Tale.
Book 3 in the Bite Back series.
I will update this blog with schedules!
So what's next?
A short story prequel - Hacha del Diablo.
A short novel - Bian's Tale.
Book 3 in the Bite Back series.
I will update this blog with schedules!
Athanate short story in anthology
I have a new release coming up - a short story in an anthology called "A Very Paranormal Holiday". This anthology will be released this Saturday, December 20th.
The anthology comprises short stories from six Urban Fantasy authors –
Connie Suttle, J.C. Mells, Susan Illene
Mark Henwick, Debra Dunbar, J.T. Bock
The anthology is FREE but you have to request it by email (mark AT athanate DOT com) and it will be delivered by email.
All six authors will then email you their future book release alerts. Your email will not be used in any other way and you will always be able to unsubscribe from future mailings.
The anthology will be sent in Kindle format unless you specify that you require a different format. (If you want instructions on sending documents to your Kindle, just ask, it’s very simple)
My short story is 'The Biting Cold' , set in the same Athanate world as Amber's Bite Back series, but with a different cast of characters-
Detroit in winter; a city in the grip of decay.
A legal system struggling to deliver justice, and a dying woman whose long-term memory has failed.
Psychiatrist Dr. Amanda Lloyd is focused on living long enough to give her expert testimony in court and put a vicious criminal away. The defense are fighting for a postponement she can’t allow, and questioning her memory problems in an effort to discredit her.
She can’t spare the time for the patient who claims to be a vampire.
Unless what he offers her is exactly what she needs…
Bite Back update: Book 4 'Cool Hand' was due out this Christmas, but has been slightly delayed until January. My apologies.
The anthology comprises short stories from six Urban Fantasy authors –
Connie Suttle, J.C. Mells, Susan Illene
Mark Henwick, Debra Dunbar, J.T. Bock
The anthology is FREE but you have to request it by email (mark AT athanate DOT com) and it will be delivered by email.
All six authors will then email you their future book release alerts. Your email will not be used in any other way and you will always be able to unsubscribe from future mailings.
The anthology will be sent in Kindle format unless you specify that you require a different format. (If you want instructions on sending documents to your Kindle, just ask, it’s very simple)
My short story is 'The Biting Cold' , set in the same Athanate world as Amber's Bite Back series, but with a different cast of characters-
Detroit in winter; a city in the grip of decay.
A legal system struggling to deliver justice, and a dying woman whose long-term memory has failed.
Psychiatrist Dr. Amanda Lloyd is focused on living long enough to give her expert testimony in court and put a vicious criminal away. The defense are fighting for a postponement she can’t allow, and questioning her memory problems in an effort to discredit her.
She can’t spare the time for the patient who claims to be a vampire.
Unless what he offers her is exactly what she needs…
Bite Back update: Book 4 'Cool Hand' was due out this Christmas, but has been slightly delayed until January. My apologies.
Long Island Athanate and update
Vampires of the Caribbean
Released this week and made #1 on UF anthologies! Thank you!
Angel Stakes audiobook
*Still* one file needs fixing. Technical difficulties at studio. I’ll keep posting as it inches towards release.
Main books
Bian’s Tale, book 1 & Bite Back 6 progressing slowly. This was always going to be a disprupted week with the release of Iron Fist, featuring my daughter as Colleen Wing. :-)
Long Island Athanate
I started this as a little stand-alone Christmas present on the blog site to my readers, and have been persuaded to keep adding episodes to it. Now it's going to be a novella, but you can read it for free on the blog site. It's set in the Athanate world, but features only Skylur from the usual cast. It occurs immediately after Angel Stakes, and is set in New York.
If you've been reading this as it came out, here is the link for the latest chapters:
https://henwick.wordpress.com/2017/03...
If you haven't seen any of this story before, or you've missed a couple of episodes:
In the comments at the bottom of the latest post, I've put in a link so you can get all the first 13 chapters in a Word document.
Enjoy!
Released this week and made #1 on UF anthologies! Thank you!
Angel Stakes audiobook
*Still* one file needs fixing. Technical difficulties at studio. I’ll keep posting as it inches towards release.
Main books
Bian’s Tale, book 1 & Bite Back 6 progressing slowly. This was always going to be a disprupted week with the release of Iron Fist, featuring my daughter as Colleen Wing. :-)
Long Island Athanate
I started this as a little stand-alone Christmas present on the blog site to my readers, and have been persuaded to keep adding episodes to it. Now it's going to be a novella, but you can read it for free on the blog site. It's set in the Athanate world, but features only Skylur from the usual cast. It occurs immediately after Angel Stakes, and is set in New York.
If you've been reading this as it came out, here is the link for the latest chapters:
https://henwick.wordpress.com/2017/03...
If you haven't seen any of this story before, or you've missed a couple of episodes:
In the comments at the bottom of the latest post, I've put in a link so you can get all the first 13 chapters in a Word document.
Enjoy!
How they tie together!
I've been prompted by a discussion with a reader to explain the relationship between the novellas and the novels in the Athanate universe. Here goes!
The Bite Back series provides the main thread:
Sleight of Hand
Hidden Trump
Wild Card
Cool Hand
Angel Stakes
(Book 6 is being written now and is called Inside Straight)
The first two novellas, The Biting Cold and Winter's Kiss, form 2 parts of an expected 3 novella companion series. They follow a psychiatrist, Amanda Lloyd, from Detroit. The timeframe is actually the same as the last part of Angel Stakes, and mentions are made in Angel Stakes of matters happening in Michigan that directly affect what happens in LA.
SEMI SPOILER ALERT: Characters from this series turn up in Denver for the beginning of Inside Straight.
Now, you don't have to read these two novellas to understand what's going on in Inside Straight, but it will give background to those characters, and the response to the novellas has been good. They're short (20k and 40k words, as opposed to something like Sleight of Hand, which is 120k words).
The Biting Cold was written originally intending to be a stand-alone short story in the Athanate universe and also to be slightly more focused on the romantic aspect (hence the covers!), but there's action as well, certainly in Winter's Kiss.
The Biting Cold: An Athanate Novella
Winter's Kiss: An Athanate Novella
I am possibly going to write a 3rd novella in this series, which will provide Amanda's view, as opposed to Amber's, of some of the events of Inside Straight.
The third novella is Change of Regime. This is a different set of characters, set in New York as Skylur moves his mantle from Denver at the end of Angel Stakes. So the action takes place between the end of Angel Stakes and overlapping the beginning of Inside Straight. No characters (aside from Skylur) cross over, but things that are going in are commented on. The novella is 25k words long. I'm intending to write a follow-up to it called Rapture, and possibly another, but don't currently expect more characters to turn up in the main Bite Back series.
Change of Regime: An Athanate novella
The other novel series is a huge prequel to the Bite Back series, and that's Bian's Tale. Book 1, Harvest of Lies, is out and I hope to get book 2 done next year. I'm intending there will be about 5 of these, eash a bit shorter and simpler than the main Bite Back books. They cover the time from Bian's first encounters with the Athanate world in 1890 Saigon, to her becoming Diakon of House Altau, a few years before she meets Amber for the first time.
The Harvest of Lies: An Athanate Novel of Nineteenth Century Saigon
So... those are the novels and novellas that are linked together to produce the whole Bite Back world.
There is one other Athanate novella, which is a stand-alone, and which I *may* write a sequel to. That's Enzili (Enzili is a voodoo goddess). It's set in the West Indies, at the end of the 18th Century and I currently have no plans to integrate this into the Bite Back canon.
If you've read the novellas, I would very much appreciate feedback - a comment on here, or a review on GR or the 'Zon. :-)
The Bite Back series provides the main thread:
Sleight of Hand
Hidden Trump
Wild Card
Cool Hand
Angel Stakes
(Book 6 is being written now and is called Inside Straight)
The first two novellas, The Biting Cold and Winter's Kiss, form 2 parts of an expected 3 novella companion series. They follow a psychiatrist, Amanda Lloyd, from Detroit. The timeframe is actually the same as the last part of Angel Stakes, and mentions are made in Angel Stakes of matters happening in Michigan that directly affect what happens in LA.
SEMI SPOILER ALERT: Characters from this series turn up in Denver for the beginning of Inside Straight.
Now, you don't have to read these two novellas to understand what's going on in Inside Straight, but it will give background to those characters, and the response to the novellas has been good. They're short (20k and 40k words, as opposed to something like Sleight of Hand, which is 120k words).
The Biting Cold was written originally intending to be a stand-alone short story in the Athanate universe and also to be slightly more focused on the romantic aspect (hence the covers!), but there's action as well, certainly in Winter's Kiss.
The Biting Cold: An Athanate Novella
Winter's Kiss: An Athanate Novella
I am possibly going to write a 3rd novella in this series, which will provide Amanda's view, as opposed to Amber's, of some of the events of Inside Straight.
The third novella is Change of Regime. This is a different set of characters, set in New York as Skylur moves his mantle from Denver at the end of Angel Stakes. So the action takes place between the end of Angel Stakes and overlapping the beginning of Inside Straight. No characters (aside from Skylur) cross over, but things that are going in are commented on. The novella is 25k words long. I'm intending to write a follow-up to it called Rapture, and possibly another, but don't currently expect more characters to turn up in the main Bite Back series.
Change of Regime: An Athanate novella
The other novel series is a huge prequel to the Bite Back series, and that's Bian's Tale. Book 1, Harvest of Lies, is out and I hope to get book 2 done next year. I'm intending there will be about 5 of these, eash a bit shorter and simpler than the main Bite Back books. They cover the time from Bian's first encounters with the Athanate world in 1890 Saigon, to her becoming Diakon of House Altau, a few years before she meets Amber for the first time.
The Harvest of Lies: An Athanate Novel of Nineteenth Century Saigon
So... those are the novels and novellas that are linked together to produce the whole Bite Back world.
There is one other Athanate novella, which is a stand-alone, and which I *may* write a sequel to. That's Enzili (Enzili is a voodoo goddess). It's set in the West Indies, at the end of the 18th Century and I currently have no plans to integrate this into the Bite Back canon.
If you've read the novellas, I would very much appreciate feedback - a comment on here, or a review on GR or the 'Zon. :-)
Book 6 in Bite Back series
An outcast Athanate House with rebel Adept kin plead for sanctuary.
Amber's decision throws her into the terrifying world of the most secretive of paranormal races - the Adepts.
Will she risk everything, even her own soul, to save the world?
Another white-knuckle ride on Amazon at
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
Amber's decision throws her into the terrifying world of the most secretive of paranormal races - the Adepts.
Will she risk everything, even her own soul, to save the world?
Another white-knuckle ride on Amazon at
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...
