My new novel, “The Pen is Mightier”, an homage/satire/love-letter to GRRM’s “A Song of Ice and Fire”, TV Show “Game of Thrones”, the internet fandom of both, and the author himself, is out.
I’m so excited! I’ve been working on it for more than a year, and it’s finally for sale. Here’s the back cover blurb:
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College student Sedrick Weir is the biggest fan of the brutal fantasy epic, ‘Those Accursed Chronicles’. Its author, Paul Breston, has created a unique series of novels rife with debauchery and betrayal, in which no character is safe.
Through a miraculous fluke, Sed is transported into the mythic world he loves so much. When he returns to his own world, he must convince Paul that his imagined realm actually exists. And if that world is real, can Paul keep killing people who are no longer merely fictional? Must Sed’s favorite characters really have to die?
Both satire and homage, ‘The Pen is Mightier’ is a love-letter to one of the most popular series and television programs in the fantasy genre.
For any John Scalzi fans, this book is sort of like “Red Shirts”, except it lovingly mocks George R. R. Martin’s series ASOIAF and the TV adaptation instead of Star Trek.
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The book went through several revisions. A couple of Dopers were among my beta readers, and their input was invaluable (feel free to identify yourselves, or not, as you prefer).
“The Pen is Mightier” is my second novel. The ebook is for sale ($3.99) at Amazon here, and at Smashwords here. Multiple formats are available. You can check other online retailers as well. The paperback ($14.99) is for sale here. The book is accessible to anyone who enjoys fantasy, while including several references and jokes that ASOIAF and GoT fans will love (hopefully!). Some of my beta readers had not read or seen the ASOIAF books or TV show and still enjoyed it very much.
My first novel, an unrelated fantasy adventure called “Sailor of the Skysea”, is available here.
Now back to work on #3.
