Building tension in any body of work is not the easiest of tasks but just lately there is a tendency to use certain techniques that this writer finds infuriating. Like most people I love a good story, well written that builds tension to the right moment when the payoff not only acts as a release…
Tag: character development
Setting the record straight
There is a debate going on that asks are Prologues and Epilogues necessary in the modern novel. In the Col Sec series I used them in Ronin, the first in the series as a way to set the scene for what was to come and to tie up any loose ends. In Omega I used…
True start to a new series
After two false starts, the Col Sec series kicked into high gear and the series really began to take form with Discovery, Book Three. Discovery saw the return of who was to become the series protagonist, Kurt Stryder, the hero from Book One, Ronin. The book begins where Omega, the previous book left off at…
Master of Mayhem 