Desert Spear Excerpt on Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist

Desert_Spear_US_webThe other day, Patrick from the blog Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist emailed me to ask if he could get an excerpt from The Desert Spear to post on his. I said sure, then spent a couple of days trying to decide what to send. It’s a tough choice; there were good scenes from pretty much all of the 8 character POVs.

But at the end of the day, The Desert Spear is Jardir’s book. He’s on the cover for a reason, and readers will have the chance to get to know him very well.

Starting now.

Posted on January 5, 2010 at 4:17 pm by PeatB
Filed under Desert Spear, Excisions, Interviews, Writing
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10 responses to “Desert Spear Excerpt on Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist”

  1. NOOooOOoo, cruel internet gremlins!

    The “Starting Now” link targets an error message: “Not Found.”

    Posted by Alex, on January 5th, 2010 at 4:44 pm

  2. Sorry! I just noticed that, myself.

    It’s fixed now!

    Posted by Peat, on January 5th, 2010 at 4:46 pm

  3. (sigh) You know that its going to be torture while waiting for the book to come out now. Tsk Tsk, not cool. Well, it was cool reading it :B

    Posted by Emily, on January 5th, 2010 at 5:52 pm

  4. That was a great intro chapter, will be interesting to see what happens as we already know the future of both the young boys from the previous book.

    Btw 8 POV characters, I thought there would be only 6!!! 2 more reasons to read this book sooner.

    Posted by Mihir, on January 6th, 2010 at 12:02 am

  5. More or less in order of screen time, Desert Spear POV Characters will be:

    Jardir
    Renna
    Leesha
    Arlen
    Rojer
    Abban
    Selia the Barren
    Jeph Bales

    Posted by Peat, on January 6th, 2010 at 12:11 am

  6. SO. AWESOME.

    I got sucked right in. Shame it had to end!

    Posted by Chantal Lyons, on January 6th, 2010 at 5:31 am

  7. Very nice! I’m so excited for this book to come out! It will be neat to get the full story for characters on both sides of a conflict.

    If you don’t mind my asking, how much of the book will cover background of Jardir and Renna, and how much will describe events that occur after the first book left off?

    Posted by Alex, on January 6th, 2010 at 9:55 am

  8. Alex, that’s a complicated question to answer, but I will say that out of the 33 chapters in the book, 25 of them occur in 333 AR, the year following the Battle of Cutter’s Hollow.

    I don’t really consider any of it background, though. It’s all active, forward-moving story.

    Posted by Peat, on January 6th, 2010 at 1:00 pm

  9. Thanks so much for the response, and I think I see what you mean. And I’m glad most of the book will take place in the future; your first book ended on such a cliffhanger that I’m left wanting to know what happens next!

    Posted by Alex, on January 7th, 2010 at 9:58 am

  10. Cannot wait `till the release.
    Its such a teaser reading so little and then it ending.
    Looking forward to it. 🙂

    Posted by Liam, on January 7th, 2010 at 8:34 pm