Creating Worlds
As a writer I’ve almost always written about things in the
world I know. The settings are usually
pretty familiar. There was one exception
to that called Hell Bound where the setting
was a couple of planes of hell, but still Hell was more of a back drop and not
a complete world for the story. Why am I
writing about this? Because I’ve always
admired writers who create their own complete worlds.
One of my writer friends, Katie Salidas, has done
just that and created her own world. (Click on Katie's name to take a trip to her wonderful web site and see all of her great books!) It’s
a world where they still hold gladiatorial games where people fight to the
death. Well, not exactly people. Vampires fight to the death. This is a really new take on the vampire
genre. So how did people not only get
control of the vampires of their world?
You’d have to read her book series to find out!
Katie actually did a bit of backtracking and wrote a prequel to her series called, Initiation, (Click on the book's name to go to the amazon.com link!) which by the way is
free for your Kindle at the moment. Pick
up this little beauty of a book and find yourself in a world that changes the
vampire rules. As far as I know, this prequel is only available on the Kindle.
If you happen to be in the United Kingdom, find the link for
Initiation right here;
From there, Katie moves on to the first book in the series
called Dissension. Though the prequel is a Kindle only book, you
can get the rest of the series a few other places. And so the series begins!
Just click on the book's name and you can find the start of this wonderful series not only on the
Kindle from amazon, but also for your Nook from Barnes & Noble. Here are the links for both Barnes & Noble and also Amazon.uk;
When I reading a book that starts of a series I really hate
waiting for the next book to come out!
It always seems to take forever!
What is the author doing? Luckily
in the case of the Chronicles series, we no longer have to wait for the
books. The series has been finished and
after picking up the first book Dissension, you can move right on to the second
book, Complication.
And here are the Barnes & Noble and amazon.co.uk links for
Complication as well;
And
of course the series continues! With
such a great story you always want more.
You can find yourself really getting attached to these characters. So now we move on to the third book, Revolution. It’s always great when you can just pick up
all these books at once and read through the entire series without
stopping!
And of course, here are the amazon.co.uk and Barnes a&
Noble links;
And now finally, Katie has finished up her newest series and
released the grand finale for this fantastic series! The fourth and final book in the series is
called Transition.
And for you Nook and United Kingdom fans, here
are those links;
Now to give you just a taste of what this series is like, here are a few promotional pictures Katie has made for her series. Take a look and get your interest peeked!
Different...wow. A different character in a different world. Great reading!
Her first day? Sounds like we'll learn quite a bit abut the past in book 4!
Who better to fight in a gladiatorial ring than a vampire with all of those strengths? Katie sets up quite a premise!
Are you ready to fight? Death before dishonor!
And finally I'll end this blog with Katie's premiere picture summing up the series. Life isn't always rosy and happy and sometimes things can be downright grim. But you do what you have to do sometimes... Pick up the series and get hooked on Katie's fantastic writing!
