BLACKTHORN: SPIRES OF MARS Online Serial Adventure!

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Folks may recall I mentioned some upcoming writing projects. One of them is the twice-weekly online novel described below. SPIRES OF MARS is an experiment to see whether Parodyverse-style multi-part regular chapters can develop an audience for this particular SF adventure series.

It’ll be around 28 chapters long, maybe 65-70,000 words (it started out planned as 18 chapters and 30,000 words but you know the problems I have with keeping to limits like that), and the style and texture shouldn’t be unfamiliar to folks who read my work here. It even has a troubled heroine guaranteed to get on the list of Vizh’s preferred female characters, romantic bits for Yo, funny bits for the Shoggoth, and superheroey-action the boys! Oh, and a hero that Hatty will approve and a villain that I approve!

There’s also an e-mail box so folks can effectively feedback to a “letters page”. I’d really like some responses, especially if they’re able to generate conversation. I’m not responsible for how that’s moderated though. Or if people want to reply on this board I’m sure that would be allowed.

No prior reading homework is required, so just plunge on in. But first you’d better read the official press release and stuff; and here’s a link to an interview I did about it as The Nocturne Travel Agency.

"Spires of Mars" cover by none other than Visionary!

Proceed.

IW

Continuing the Adventures of the Award-Winning New Pulp Warrior and his Allies!

A young man desperate to save his sister from the raiders who kidnapped her into slavery… An ancient undead released after half a millennium… Four sorcerous First Men who will kill half a world to keep their darkest secret… And three champions who will stand for Mars against horror and tyranny—or die trying!

Award-winning author I.A Watson’ online novel set in the futuristic Martian world of BLACKTHORN offers readers a serial adventure in the tradition of old-time pulps, showcasing the vibrant characters and lush settings of this popular and successful series.

Join Earth General John Blackthorn, Princess Aria of Mars, Oglok the Mock-Man and an ever-expanding cast of rebels, monsters, magicians, and villains as the mystery of the ancient Harmony Spires is explored. Following on from BLACKTHORN: THUNDER ON MARS and meshing with the upcoming BLACKTHORN: DYNASTY OF MARS novel, also by Watson, this stand-alone full-length serial adventure offers a glimpse of a future where magic and technology are one and humanity must face its ultimate challenge.

“This serial adventure gives readers everything they could ask for,” says White Rocket Books Publisher Van Allen Plexico. “An award-winning character, written by an award-winning writer—and set in the fantastic world of post-apocalyptic Mars. It’s an absolute grand slam!”

Jump in on the ground floor at www.whiterocketbooks.com/blackthorn with Chapter 1: “A Night in the Deadlands.” A desperate young man must cross the wasteland where everything dies – but nothing stays dead!

Tune in for new chapters every Monday and Thursday!

White Rocket Books is a leader in the New Pulp movement, publishing exciting action and adventure novels and anthologies since 2005, in both traditional and electronic formats. White Rocket books have hit the Amazon.com Top 15-by-Genre and have garnered praise from everyone from Marvel Comics Editor Tom Brevoort to Kirkus Reviews.

Find new instalments of the series and links to buy copies of the original THUNDER ON MARS anthology by visiting http://www.whiterocketbooks.com/

For a list of all I.A. Watson’s recent published works go to I.A. Watson: Writer and Storyteller