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Corstae
In a time of dragons and war, one small, out of the way country, Corstae, is pulled into a larger war that it has no means to fight. Its king, James, must go headlong into a conflict that he knows he cannot win but must fight.
540 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 1, 2024
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David Vining
20 books25 followersI am a fiction writer living in the Carolinas.
Writing is a passion of mine, and I'll never stop. I'm always striving to tell another story that speaks to me in new and interesting ways, and my milieu seems to have becomes historical fiction with a fantasy bent.
I love the feeling of being dropped into a lived-in world with its own rules and following a character who has to navigate them. That can be the far flung future like a Gene Wolfe novel or the distant, forgotten past like a Conan adventure from Robert E. Howard. That can even be a biography of a real man long since dead like James Madison. In fact, it was through the reading of Irving Brant's six-volume biography of Madison that I discovered The Battle of Lake Erie, the small corner of the War of 1812 that I used as the basis for my first published novel.
It was another biography of another president, one about George Washington, that led me to discover the real-life tale of America's first president where he almost died on a mission for the Virginia colonial governor at 21 years old before the French and Indian War. It took me a while to figure out that I needed to add a monster into the action to give it that extra oomph I needed to actually write about it, though.
I continue to write where I feel like going, from historical fiction to historical fantasy to horror to even a spy thriller. I like all kinds of stories, and I feel no real need to limit my own output into just one kind. Even reading Shusaku Endo gives me ideas of stories to tell in Shogunate Japan.
So, follow me on some adventures through time, bending the rules of reality, and always with a clear-eyed focus on the people we use as vessels into these worlds.
Writing is a passion of mine, and I'll never stop. I'm always striving to tell another story that speaks to me in new and interesting ways, and my milieu seems to have becomes historical fiction with a fantasy bent.
I love the feeling of being dropped into a lived-in world with its own rules and following a character who has to navigate them. That can be the far flung future like a Gene Wolfe novel or the distant, forgotten past like a Conan adventure from Robert E. Howard. That can even be a biography of a real man long since dead like James Madison. In fact, it was through the reading of Irving Brant's six-volume biography of Madison that I discovered The Battle of Lake Erie, the small corner of the War of 1812 that I used as the basis for my first published novel.
It was another biography of another president, one about George Washington, that led me to discover the real-life tale of America's first president where he almost died on a mission for the Virginia colonial governor at 21 years old before the French and Indian War. It took me a while to figure out that I needed to add a monster into the action to give it that extra oomph I needed to actually write about it, though.
I continue to write where I feel like going, from historical fiction to historical fantasy to horror to even a spy thriller. I like all kinds of stories, and I feel no real need to limit my own output into just one kind. Even reading Shusaku Endo gives me ideas of stories to tell in Shogunate Japan.
So, follow me on some adventures through time, bending the rules of reality, and always with a clear-eyed focus on the people we use as vessels into these worlds.
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