by Brent Roth
And then as the tenth second passed and the boat was nearly thirty feet away.
I flashed again.
Reappearing on the boat with electricity discharging off my body and static popping in the air, I had made it.
Not bothering to look back at the village that was burning to the ground, I sat down on my wooden box and grabbed an oar. Joining in the silent rowing that had been taking place. Sail cutting into the wind, we rowed through the mouth of the river and up and through the clashing waves.
We rowed until the flames were no longer visible and the gulls couldn't be heard.
And then after an hour had passed, a voice broke the silence.
"Are we heading home, Sigurd?" asked Katherine.
"Yeah," I calmly replied. "We're heading home."
(End Volume 2)
Afterword
(7-27-2015)
Ah well, I hope you were able to find a few hours of enjoyment from this book as that is and always will be my main purpose when it comes to my writing. My goal is to provide you (and me too), with an enjoyable story that can entertain and captivate the imagination for a specific period of time.
I don't make claims of this being a hard-hitting, genre-defining philosophical work that will break down walls in the literary world, nor do I intend to pretend that these books are anything of the sort.
This book was primarily meant to capture the imagination.
Much like the first.
I wanted to create a world that you could find yourself immersed in. Living the book with the character as if it were your own. I wanted some parts to be relatable while also different, but in the end, altogether still an enjoyable experience.
If you found enjoyment reading this work, then I've succeeded.
As for the contents of this book, it took a slightly different direction from the first which was planned from the very beginning. The first book was intended as a world building adventure story that focused on setting up all of the future installments. The second, had been planned as mostly an action-centric story with some pushing of the tempo and plot as the game expands into the third volume.
PvP as you probably have guessed, is largely the focus going into the third volume.
You may have caught on to a few of the allusions from the first book in this one as well, and I can tell you that there are quite a few in the third too.
There is a good bit of foreshadowing in the first book, actually.
All in all though, I do hope you enjoyed the work and found it worth your time!
Hopefully in a few days, I will have a website setup and an e-mail address available for you to contact me or to look for updates on future installments or even for general discussion. For now, if you are curious or have any questions, don't hesitate to click on my Author Name on the Amazon Sales page. If you click on my name, it will bring you to a forum where any Amazon Customer can communicate with me or with others.
If you liked the work and want to motivate me some more, leave a review =D!
That's the best support a budding author like me can receive, so don't be shy =].
And with that, thank you for your time and support!
PS:
As far as a tentative release schedule/date for Volume 3, three months out would be the safest bet. I spent roughly 1,200 hours on the first Volume, and according to Word, I've spent 857 hours on Volume two. In three months, that's a little over 9 hours a day, seven days a week.
I do expect to cut my writing time down with each Volume to a certain point, as I've learned some tricks with formatting and editing that allowed me to shed a few hundred hours. If I can continue to progress, which I believe I can, I may be able to come out with a third book sooner.
We'll see though =].
