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About derekbalsamLocation: Ohio Home Region: Website: http://www.markbeadles.com/ Favorite novels: Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, Known Space series, Chronicles of Amber, Nero Wolfe stories, Speaker for the Dead, Dune, Ulysses, Harry Potter series, The Space Trilogy, the Silmarillion Favorite writers: JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Roger Zelazny, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Fred Saberhagen, HP Lovecraft, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wm Shakespeare, Douglas Hofstadter, Umberto Eco, Jorge Luis Borges, JK Rowling, Stephen King, Douglas Adams, Ayn Rand, Adam Smith, L Frank Baum, Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Philip Pullman, Oliver Sacks, Orson Scott Card, Michael Crichton, Philip K Dick, Stephen J Gould, Richard Dawkins, Stephen R Donaldson, Frank Herbert, Dante Alighieri, Piers Anthony, Rex Stout, EE 'Doc' Smith, Kurt Vonnegut Non-noveling interests: Science, Music composition and performance, Physiology, Software engineering, Computer security |
Joined: September 18, 2009 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 2 NaNoWriMo buddies: 4
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Brief Author Bio: Hello all! My real name is Mark Beadles. I'm a husband and father of 3. Professionally, I'm a veteran software/network/security entrepreneur and technologist. My personal/professional web site is http://www.markbeadles.com/. My personal blog is at http://amarbledesk.blogspot.com/. My creative side is fed by music (I play guitar, drums, and keys), cuisine (I love to cook), and reading -- and now I'm going to take a foray into writing. I figured, what better way to do it than NaNoWriMo? You can read more about my writing influences at http://amarbledesk.blogspot.com/2009/10/getting-ready-for-nanowrimo.html if you so desire. |
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Synopsis:
In the world of Rha, where humans don’t belong, Gam and his two brothers must learn self-reliance when a shadowy enemy abducts their parents. Through conflicts with emperors, fearsome jeweled behemoths, and allies turned traitor, they discover inner strength and magical wonders. But even if they find their parents in this vast, strange world, will their lives ever be the same?
PART ONE
Chapter One: Salt
Chapter Two: Fire
Chapter Three: Wood
Chapter Four: Water
Chapter Five: Metal
Chapter Six: Air
Chapter Seven: Earth
PART TWO
Chapter Eight: Sapphire
Chapter Nine: White
Chapter Ten: Green
Excerpt:
Opening paragraph:
Gam struggled to hoist the axe before letting it drop deep into the yellowbark wood. He enjoyed chopping wood, indeed any kind of work with tools, but he hated having to do it for his father. This was the last cord of wood Gam needed to cut for the smithy, which was just as well since it was growing quite dark. The gray Moon and its companion shed little light through the thick clouds, making the work even more difficult and dismal. His attention wandered to the evening sky. He sought and found the Northern Hexagon, and bright Telemar near the eastern horizon. He wondered if the planets were really other worlds just like Rha, as his father said. He suspected and even hoped that Oto was right, and that the colored points in the sky were something other than they seemed....
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