Chris Jags's Blog - Posts Tagged "revenge"
Caracal's Harvest
Is it weird that a writer is a man of few words? I have no idea, but in introducing my new revenge-thriller dark fantasy Caracal's Harvest (out March 15 2016), I think I'll just let my Amazon blurb do the talking:
Father Andro's world is crumbling. The aging, reclusive priest of a dying faith in which he no longer truly believes, his only friends are the bottles he's drowning himself in.
When a siren turns up at his church's door, battered and bloody, Andro is initially reluctant to lend her his assistance. Upon discovering the truth behind her condition - that she was the victim of a savage assault by a wealthy young merchant running a ruthless underground trade in non-human body parts - he vows to help her.
Andro is no schemer; he can barely make it from one day to the next. The merchant employs a small army. What use can Andro possibly be to a hate-fueled siren who has vowed bloody revenge upon the man who destroyed her life?
I'm pretty proud of this one. It's darker and bleaker than anything I've tried before, and despite being far from my longest work, I poured more time into writing it than any of my other books.
Please be aware that Caracal's Harvest is a "Mature Readers" only kind of story. If you like brutal revenge thrillers, and wonder what one might be like set in a fantasy world, please check it out!
Father Andro's world is crumbling. The aging, reclusive priest of a dying faith in which he no longer truly believes, his only friends are the bottles he's drowning himself in.
When a siren turns up at his church's door, battered and bloody, Andro is initially reluctant to lend her his assistance. Upon discovering the truth behind her condition - that she was the victim of a savage assault by a wealthy young merchant running a ruthless underground trade in non-human body parts - he vows to help her.
Andro is no schemer; he can barely make it from one day to the next. The merchant employs a small army. What use can Andro possibly be to a hate-fueled siren who has vowed bloody revenge upon the man who destroyed her life?
I'm pretty proud of this one. It's darker and bleaker than anything I've tried before, and despite being far from my longest work, I poured more time into writing it than any of my other books.
Please be aware that Caracal's Harvest is a "Mature Readers" only kind of story. If you like brutal revenge thrillers, and wonder what one might be like set in a fantasy world, please check it out!
Faeries VS Humans
In the far-off days of the 1990s, I wrote a horror story about a man who developed a taste for eating faeries, and how the faeries had to band together to bring him down.
I kinda touched on humans VS faeries again in a brief scene in my book Crow's Meal.
Apparently this is a recurring theme with me, so I thought: why not make it a feature-length story? This was the genesis of upcoming new book (presently editing): faeries VS humans (not the actual title!) Written from the faeries' perspective and scaled up to make it a larger conflict from the original concept, with all the lore and world-building that entails.
Basically, we follow a group of faeries who go from a peaceful forest-dwelling, cultivate-pretty-gardens kind of folk to a bunch of tiny warriors and mages in order to defend their home from human incursion. No Tinkerbells in sight!
I've had crazy fun writing it. It's not horror, eschewing the approach of my original. Instead, it's fantasy and probably as close to all-audiences as I will ever write (still violent and occasionally a bit ghoulish, though, so not for the young'uns). It was pretty great to write from the perspective of tiny, winged people rather than humans - really changes up and reinvigorates the action sequences, for instance!
In any case, I'm announcing it early, even though it's in its non-edited infancy, because I'm excited about this one and I believe in it. So if you like faeries, keep your eyes open for this one!
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I kinda touched on humans VS faeries again in a brief scene in my book Crow's Meal.
Apparently this is a recurring theme with me, so I thought: why not make it a feature-length story? This was the genesis of upcoming new book (presently editing): faeries VS humans (not the actual title!) Written from the faeries' perspective and scaled up to make it a larger conflict from the original concept, with all the lore and world-building that entails.
Basically, we follow a group of faeries who go from a peaceful forest-dwelling, cultivate-pretty-gardens kind of folk to a bunch of tiny warriors and mages in order to defend their home from human incursion. No Tinkerbells in sight!
I've had crazy fun writing it. It's not horror, eschewing the approach of my original. Instead, it's fantasy and probably as close to all-audiences as I will ever write (still violent and occasionally a bit ghoulish, though, so not for the young'uns). It was pretty great to write from the perspective of tiny, winged people rather than humans - really changes up and reinvigorates the action sequences, for instance!
In any case, I'm announcing it early, even though it's in its non-edited infancy, because I'm excited about this one and I believe in it. So if you like faeries, keep your eyes open for this one!
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