Working on a Fantasy Novel

Whew. It's been too long since I've written in this blog. Time gets away from me and then ... well, to be honest, I get totally obsessed with something else. My latest obsession has been reading. Reading tons and tons of books. Lest anyone underestimate me or think I exaggerate, let me say, I've been reading 2-3 books a day for the last couple months or more.

Ah, I should be ashamed. I know. But I can't help it. I went through a long dry spell where I didn't read anything (about 10 years of it, actually), and I feel like I'm making up for lost time. Too bad really. I have this great fantasy novel in my head, and I've little time to write since I'm so busy reading!

Nonetheless, I'm about 150 pages into it. It'll probably be a 300 page book by the time I'm done (or something round about that). I'm having a blast being totally irreverent ... maybe even a teensy eensie bit sacrilegious, but what can I say? That's who I've become!

My fantasy is about the gods ... and I'm not taking the safe route of keeping the storyline to ancient (and thus unoffensive) deities. No. I like living dangerously. I've included the "Father, Son, Holy Ghost, & Mary" deities along with the Hindu gods, the Zorastrian gods, and any other deities I so decide.

So why, you might ask, would I do such a thing? Because I can. So there. (Okay, you're supposed to smile here.)

The storyline combines two mythologies into one: the Babylonian Creation account and the Hindu god(desses).

Shakti was destroyed, her five incarnations scattered across the universe along with her body, and she wants to reunify. Her murderer (Marduk, her son), has no intention of letting her succeed. He claims that her reunification will mean the end of the universe. So now the gods must decide who to trust, if anyone, and Shakti's incarnations (book one deals with Lakshmi) must remember who they are. But some aren't fighting fair.

Intrigued? I hope so. I hope to finish the first draft by the end of January, then set my sites on finishing the 12 Gates sequel. But then, the Sabine women have been haunting my thoughts so I might write one of those next instead. Ah, I don't know sometimes. So many ideas. So little time.

Check back soon!