last scene

[swan_tower]

With this final installment of the excerpt, I've hit the limit of what I'm allowed to post online (which is approximately 10% of the book). You finally get to see Miryo -- mostly I alternate evenly between her and Mirage, but the timing of certain plot elements means they each get one instance of two chapters in a row, and Mirage's happens to be at the beginning of the novel.

So that's it for the excerpt, but stay tuned; there will be other goodies. Including the Long-Lost Original First Scene, which was the first bit to get written, but which got cut some time ago, for reasons I'll explain when I post it. And any other tidbits I can think of to put up. (Hmmm. Do I have the self-confidence necessary to post the truly atrocious map I originally drew? I might. We'll see. I could post The Evolution Of The Map as a cartography essay, I suppose.)

Back to grant-proposal writing.