The Afflicted
Dec. 20th, 2013 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnRight, listen - I've been meaning to mention that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kjorteo has completed the novel that he's been working on for the last four years. It's called The Afflicted, and it's available for sale with a free chapter on the Amazon Kindle store!
It's loosely a fantasy dystopia, following a group of survivors after an unknown disease spreads through the entire atmosphere as they try to survive against the elements and the hunters preventing the afflicted from approaching the few remaining cities. From the beginning you can tell it's definitely not a light and hopeful setting, but I got to read it as it was being written and it really captured me and made me care about the characters.
The anthropomorphic nature of the characters is interesting because it's not just used for the sake of it - it's fascinating when an author uses the animalistic details to colour the traits and behaviour of the characters, and here it's also thought about in the context of the residents of the city slums, in a form of fantasy species racism.
I know what it's like to finally finish a years-long project, and this definitely deserves your time. It's already inspired some music in me, and a couple of other projects as well...
kjorteo has completed the novel that he's been working on for the last four years. It's called The Afflicted, and it's available for sale with a free chapter on the Amazon Kindle store!It's loosely a fantasy dystopia, following a group of survivors after an unknown disease spreads through the entire atmosphere as they try to survive against the elements and the hunters preventing the afflicted from approaching the few remaining cities. From the beginning you can tell it's definitely not a light and hopeful setting, but I got to read it as it was being written and it really captured me and made me care about the characters.
The anthropomorphic nature of the characters is interesting because it's not just used for the sake of it - it's fascinating when an author uses the animalistic details to colour the traits and behaviour of the characters, and here it's also thought about in the context of the residents of the city slums, in a form of fantasy species racism.
I know what it's like to finally finish a years-long project, and this definitely deserves your time. It's already inspired some music in me, and a couple of other projects as well...
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Date: 2013-12-21 02:38 am (UTC)Some other links to add to this, if it matters: you can also get it in your choice of formats at Smashwords (and I get a slightly larger cut if you do, too, but shh), and you can actually read the first three chapters on my Fur Affinity submission!
But seriously, this is fantastic ... I love the attention and the plug, of course, but it's also fascinating to watch others explain and describe it after it's been up to me to do that for so long. And thank you for the review, too :'D
Edit: Aaaaand I just noticed a typo in the opening paragraph of the novel. WOW, WHAT WONDERFUL TIMING, TEO. Fixed that, also fixed a ... not a typo but a small error (Girard calls Marcus "Marcus" near the end of chapter 1, should be "Marc" considering the speaker) and added RKTDWG's name to the credits in the afterword (I always had my eye on doing that as a "not worth fussing with potentially delicately-formatted ebook guts I don't want to break or anything just for that, but next time I'm in there anyway...." project) and resubmitted the manuscript (as version 1.41) to both sites. If anyone happens to be purchasing this novel based off David's recommendation (thank you again for that :D), check the version number and revision date!