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Tales of Tourniquet
One of my favorite books - I've read the cover clean off it - is the compiled Sherlock Holmes collection. Holmes was my introduction to serials in general, and in recent years, I've developed a taste for TV shows as well. It was only a matter of time before I wanted to try my hand at a serial myself.
After getting the deathly serious Hate Ghost out of my system, I decided I wanted to try a "lighter" dark fantasy - keeping the horror elements, but wrapping them around a framework of adventure, drama, and humor - and Tales of Tourniquet is the result.
Speaking of TV, there are several intelligent, intricately plotted, award-winning shows running. Even taking different mediums into account, Tales of Tourniquet doesn't aspire to their company. Meant to be fast, fun, and pulpy, ToT chronicles the ongoing journeys of an undead bounty hunter pursuing targets ranging from vampires to soul-sucking demons.
Tourniquet herself is a leyak - a creature which detaches its head to hunt - in disguise as a human to avoid persecution. She's a woman with a very fluid morality; her own companions can't always figure out how she makes her decisions. She needs human blood to survive - or is presumed to - and doesn't much care who provides it.
Her most stalwart companion is the Northlands barbarian Ajin, a man of honor whose noble convictions are somewhat undermined by his loyalty to a killer as vicious as Tourniquet. It is currently unknown as to why he remains so devoted to someone who, by his own values, would be considered a monster.
Darius Zenn, failed merchant, sleazy and unscrupulous, is looking to make a profit from his travels with Tourniquet, who has a way of amassing priceless, powerful artifacts. Self-serving and immature, Zenn values himself above all others, which occasionally manifests in vindictive, ill-considered actions.
The newest addition to Tourniquet's crew is the quirky stripper Red. She's a little air-headed and awkward, but she does have a rare skill which Tourniquet values: her ability to see through mystical disguises. Her infatuation with Ajin has gone, so far, unreciprocated.
This motley crew represent the core of Tales of Tourniquet, and I hope readers will come to enjoy their continuing misadventures. Theirs is a world bursting with supernatural horrors just waiting to be confronted and I'm excited to continue building the series' mythology. Volume 1 releases on January 6 2015. I'm already working on volume 2!
After getting the deathly serious Hate Ghost out of my system, I decided I wanted to try a "lighter" dark fantasy - keeping the horror elements, but wrapping them around a framework of adventure, drama, and humor - and Tales of Tourniquet is the result.
Speaking of TV, there are several intelligent, intricately plotted, award-winning shows running. Even taking different mediums into account, Tales of Tourniquet doesn't aspire to their company. Meant to be fast, fun, and pulpy, ToT chronicles the ongoing journeys of an undead bounty hunter pursuing targets ranging from vampires to soul-sucking demons.
Tourniquet herself is a leyak - a creature which detaches its head to hunt - in disguise as a human to avoid persecution. She's a woman with a very fluid morality; her own companions can't always figure out how she makes her decisions. She needs human blood to survive - or is presumed to - and doesn't much care who provides it.
Her most stalwart companion is the Northlands barbarian Ajin, a man of honor whose noble convictions are somewhat undermined by his loyalty to a killer as vicious as Tourniquet. It is currently unknown as to why he remains so devoted to someone who, by his own values, would be considered a monster.
Darius Zenn, failed merchant, sleazy and unscrupulous, is looking to make a profit from his travels with Tourniquet, who has a way of amassing priceless, powerful artifacts. Self-serving and immature, Zenn values himself above all others, which occasionally manifests in vindictive, ill-considered actions.
The newest addition to Tourniquet's crew is the quirky stripper Red. She's a little air-headed and awkward, but she does have a rare skill which Tourniquet values: her ability to see through mystical disguises. Her infatuation with Ajin has gone, so far, unreciprocated.
This motley crew represent the core of Tales of Tourniquet, and I hope readers will come to enjoy their continuing misadventures. Theirs is a world bursting with supernatural horrors just waiting to be confronted and I'm excited to continue building the series' mythology. Volume 1 releases on January 6 2015. I'm already working on volume 2!
Headless Fun for Everyone!
Hey all. Thanks so much to those people who bought Tales of Tourniquet Vol 1 straight out of the gate! As I hope to lay groundwork to really establish the series over the five volumes I'm planning to write (gotta get that full TV-esque season in!) I am going to be putting ToT up free for Kindle for just three days starting January 13th.
So what, you say? You're drowning in free kindle books, you say? Okay, how can I convince you to pick up a copy of a smart-ass dark fantasy serial with a cold-blooded, head-slinging, bounty-hunting heroine?
If that didn't do it, well, keep in mind that she hangs out with:
-a noble barbarian with a penchant for trashy novels;
-a sleazy, obsessive merchant who keeps a dead fairy in a box;
-an air-headed stripper with a whimsical worldview and the ability to see through supernatural disguise.
So, there's someone for just about everyone to relate to!
And if none of that worked, there are a multitude of blood-sucking and/or soul-sucking fiends for our 'heroes' to cross swords and fangs with, some of which are even less socially acceptable than our heroine!
So check it out... again, it's free from the 13th to the 15th. In case words like "sleazy" and "stripper" didn't clue you in, there's some mature material involved, so if you like your fantasy squeaky clean, it may not be for you.
I had a lot of fun writing it, I hope you have a lot of fun reading it, let me know!
Chris
So what, you say? You're drowning in free kindle books, you say? Okay, how can I convince you to pick up a copy of a smart-ass dark fantasy serial with a cold-blooded, head-slinging, bounty-hunting heroine?
If that didn't do it, well, keep in mind that she hangs out with:
-a noble barbarian with a penchant for trashy novels;
-a sleazy, obsessive merchant who keeps a dead fairy in a box;
-an air-headed stripper with a whimsical worldview and the ability to see through supernatural disguise.
So, there's someone for just about everyone to relate to!
And if none of that worked, there are a multitude of blood-sucking and/or soul-sucking fiends for our 'heroes' to cross swords and fangs with, some of which are even less socially acceptable than our heroine!
So check it out... again, it's free from the 13th to the 15th. In case words like "sleazy" and "stripper" didn't clue you in, there's some mature material involved, so if you like your fantasy squeaky clean, it may not be for you.
I had a lot of fun writing it, I hope you have a lot of fun reading it, let me know!
Chris
