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[josephbrassey]

Taking a quick break from hyping Glassblade to talk about my other series, the Drifting Lands.

It’s been a year and a half since Prince of Clay came out and it’s been really interesting watching peoples reactions to it, who understood what I was putting down, and who didn’t.

Because if Skyfarer was an adventure story, and Dragon Road was a thriller, Prince of Clay needed to be, and is, a war-story. And that means by definition for me to be honest when handling that sort of story, it couldn’t be upbeat or cheerful. It needed to be messy, and complicated, and painful and abrupt, and leave a partial taste of ash in the mouth at the end.

If I hadn’t done that, it wouldn’t have been a war story. It would’ve been another adventure story that used war as its backdrop. Those are fine, but they’re not war-stories.

There were moments of glory and triumph in Prince of Clay, but it was not intended to be a story of Glory or Triumph. It was intended to be something else altogether. It’s been really interesting seeing who that resonated with, who it didn’t, and why.

Anyway you can buy the Drifting Lands books here

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[josephbrassey]

What if I just pitched my books purely stream of consciousness? Let’s try that. NGL I’m actually pretty nervous about doing this because my track record for saying things off the cuff tends to land me with sentences like “barbecue armadillo fleeing horse bobcat ducksmoke.”

Never let fear stop you from trying though right?

Right. So the whole series is heavily inspired by Final Fantasy so bear that in mind.

AWKWARD STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS DRIFTING LANDS PITCHES.

BOOK 1, SKYFARER:

1. Apprentice Sorceress causes massive military headache for Anime Bishounen supervillain. Sky-island almost exploded by giant sound-canon. Truth-telling diamond is everybody’s problem.

Hmm.

2. POC Gandalf leads skyship crew against a private military contractors that are kinda like if the Sith were organized like Blackwater. There’s a part where a magic knight gets kicked out of a door and falls something like forteen thousand feet. This is the only time I used specific numbers in the entire series. Never again.

I need to learn to do this in less than a paragraph.

3. Bisexual WoC pilot takes skyship through aerial dogfight around death mountain. Fixes engine by punching it. Carries hatchet everywhere.

Book 2: DRAGON ROAD:

Okay let’s try to do this simply because it’s a much longer book.

1. Murder mystery/political thriller on a brick-shaped city-ship. Sword fighting as therapy. Warrior poets. Squittens.

Mm. Could use a bit more.

2. Apprentice sorceress tangles with ancient necromancer in the midst of a succession crisis. Undeath-as-disease. Ghost-Engines. Also romance???

Simpler, Brassey. SIMPLER.

Okay. Here goes, fuck it.

3. PoC-Gandalf vs the Sky-squid.

I drew a picture:

Anyway you can get the books here:

Drifting Lands Bundle

Note - This is a preorder item and will ship after stock arrives in early January.  Now you can own both new editions of The Drifting Lands

If you buy either print editions direct from my publisher you get the ebooks for free, so yay! Also there’s a third one coming and you’ll know when that is because I’ll be really annoying about it.

Happy reading!

[josephbrassey]

Drifting Lands Bundle

Note - This is a preorder item and will ship after stock arrives in early January.  Now you can own both new editions of The Drifting Lands

It’s hit me that despite being an author I’m actually not the most active hype-man for myself, so imma be doing this more going forward. Hi! I’m Joseph Brassey and this is my Drifting Lands series, for which the spoiler free summary is “this is my love letter to Final Fantasy and my massive fuck you to private military contractors.” The first two books are available direct from my publisher, Falstaff Books, and if you buy either print formats you can get the ebooks for free. There’s a third one coming this year, titled Prince of Clay, and if any of that sounds good to you I’d be much obliged if you’d check them out.

The longer version for the first book (Skyfarer) is a sorceress recently graduated from wizard-college and embarking on an apprenticeship on a skyship accidentally gets herself and her crew thrown into the middle of a war between a small, out of the way country and the private military contractors invading them, and they find themselves racing to find a truth-telling gemstone before Fantasy Blackwater can get its militant hands on it. The second book (Dragon Road) is a murder mystery/political thriller that takes place on a massive city-ship featuring squittens, romance, continent sized magical storms, and martial arts as therapy. Same cast.

Did I mention there were Squittens? They’re like if you crossed a Maine-coon with an octopus, made them airborne, and gave them opposable thumbs and a penchant for stealing ship. Cutest pet! Skyfarer’s worst nightmare.

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