I can finally see the finish-line….!!

My labor of love, Faith of the Nine – part one of the trilogy Wheels of Janani is finally seeing the light of the day !! To borrow from a big Chinese phone manufacturer: Whoop, whoop! So my book, which I had finished like a year  and half back ( Sometime in Nov 2013!) has finally found a home. It’s been a long arduous journey – from when I first decided to write a short story for a Fantasy Anthology and then I floated it around for feedback – only to lengthen it and write a back story.

And Lo! Behold Faith of the Nine – Book One! I took roughly about six months to write down the first draft – weighing in around 126K words. I always knew my first book was going to be an epic fantasy. It’s the sub-genre that I most love when it comes to speculative fiction – and so with that certainty, I hit the keyboards with a vengeance when I heard from a lot of good friends ( authors and writers included in that) that my short doesn’t stand on its own. There were gaps in the world building, the history behind the characters – Buried secrets in their past that I needed to dig out. And so it came down that I slowly drew up the history and built the premise for that short story in that six months. Most of my writing actually came through in the last couple of months – having decided to do a NaNoWriMo!

And along the way – with the rejections and the endless wait to hear back, I have learnt a lot of good stuff. I might even cash in on my learning and start off an advisory (wink!wink!)- but hark ye wait! For now, I should just bask in the glory of unlocking another milestone, right?

Today – after countless redrafts and querying and rejections, I think its finally time to uncork the bubblies! I will soon let you guys in on the names and details but for now – It’s time I put my foot on the table, tilt my head back and take some deep breathes.

The long road home…

For I see the finish line now…Inching closer.

P.S: That pic by the way is of my wife – close to completing the trek up Eravikulam National Park to spot Nilgiri Tahr and the Neelakurinji that carpets the hills in rolling blues once in twelve years.