Posts Tagged ‘Legend Of The Sword’
In Her Name: Legend Of The Sword – Now Available For Amazon Kindle!
Posted by: Michael R. Hicks in My Books on February 20th, 2010
It’s finally up! If you’ve been waiting for In Her Name: Legend Of The Sword, it’s now available for purchase in the Amazon Kindle store. So, if you want to find out what happens after First Contact, grab a copy and start reading! Note: the print version should be available by mid-March. Enjoy!
Cover Art for In Her Name: Legend of the Sword
Posted by: Michael R. Hicks in My Books on February 10th, 2010
With In Her Name: Legend of the Sword nearing completion – I’m hoping to have the Kindle and Mobipocket versions released within the next week, with the print version following not too long after – it was time to finalize the cover art. We had quite a bit of back and forth about it on Kindleboards, but here’s what I finally decided on…
In Her Name: Legend of the Sword
Posted by: Michael R. Hicks in My Books on December 27th, 2009
Legend of the Sword is almost ready! I hope to complete the first draft in the next couple of weeks, and have the eBook versions (Kindle, Mobipocket reader, etc.) available by February 2010, and the print version by March.
In the meantime, here’s a sample of the first two chapters. This is just a rough draft, so there are still probably some bloopers in it, but hopefully it will whet your appetite a bit…
Salt Lake City – Working on In Her Name: Legend of the Sword
Posted by: Michael R. Hicks in My Books on October 7th, 2009
My wife, Jan, is a “ScrapGirl” (see ScrapGirls.com) and they’re having their annual convention in Salt Lake City. I’ve never been to Salt Lake before, and it sounded like a great way to get away from my day job for a while and do some writing to move In Her Name: Legend of the Sword (my current work in progress) a bit further along.
The flight in last weekend was great, with some awesome views out the window of our Southwest 737 as we left Baltimore, climbing above the clouds, and when we came in for landing at Salt Lake.
We stayed the weekend with Jan’s cousin, who’s really cool. But she has a 1947 Piper Cub, which in my book makes her way cooler! We couldn’t get a ride last weekend, though, because the weather was totally crappy: it poured rain and was really gusty. So we just stayed inside and chilled out, reading, writing, and playing with her Abyssinian cat, Martini.
We did manage to get out and have some excellent Indian food at the Himalayan restaurant downtown. Then we took a quick tour of the Mormon Temple square in the evening drizzle. I have to say, the Temple is pretty spectacular at night!
After we left Jan’s cousin’s place on Monday, we headed to the University of Utah where the ScrapGirls convention is being held this year. It’s a beautiful campus, which incorporates Fort Douglas, which was established in the late 1800s. The convention itself is actually in the old officer’s club, so that’s kinda cool. The view from the Guest House hotel isn’t bad, either!
We’ve been exercising every morning since we got to the Guest House, running and/or doing the stationary bike. Well, I had to do the stationary bike this morning, because I strained my right calf at Jan’s cousin’s place and it’s still not very happy. Jan also went down and demonstrated Beachbody’s Insanity workout to some of her fellow ScrapGirls. Lotsa sweat there!
While the girls were going bonkers greeting each other (you haven’t heard a racket until you’ve been to an almost-all-female convention like this!), I staked out a corner in the hotel lobby and got to work on In Her Name: Legend of the Sword. I’m up to chapter 7 now, and while it hasn’t come together quite as readily as First Contact, it’s starting to weave together. A lot of this story focuses on the character of Tesh-Dar, the warrior high priestess who’s appeared in all the In Her Name novels so far. In fact, the name of the novel – Legend of the Sword – is a term of endearment, for lack of a better term, given her by the Kreelan Empress. I haven’t made a ton of progress since we’ve been here, simply because there’ve been a lot of pleasant distractions. But tomorrow the ScrapGirls convention will be in full swing, so while the girls are scrapping, I plan to be hammering out some serious wordage. I’d like to get the draft of this novel done by the end of the year, which doesn’t leave me a lot of time. Faster, fingers, faster!!
So, I’ll post more pics and information as we go…
New Work In Progress – In Her Name: Legend Of The Sword
Posted by: Michael R. Hicks in My Books on August 19th, 2009
Now that In Her Name: First Contact is in the final review stages (the last round of revisions is underway now!), I decided to go ahead and get started on the next installment of the series, which I’ve given the tentative title of In Her Name: Legend Of The Sword.
I wish I could give you more of an idea of what’s going to happen in this book, but it’s a bit hard to say because I don’t write from an outline! So my fingers sort of decide what’s going to happen as I type. Go figure.
What I can tell you is that Tesh-Dar, the warrior priestess who was one of the main supporting characters of the original trilogy (Empire, Confederation, and Final Battle – and the omnibus edition, of course), appears to be playing a more central role in this one. In fact, “Legend of the Sword” is a reference to her.
My suspicion is that, much like First Contact had a heavier emphasis on the human point of view, Legend Of The Sword will favor the Kreelan point of view. It certainly has in the first chapter, the draft of which is just about finished.
So, stand by for updates on that, and I’ll let you know when First Contact is ready to hit the streets!
