The Okal Rel Universe in evolution and in the world.

 
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:10:14 -0600, Mary Schmitz wrote:
> Hi Linda
>
> I need to have as specific a gene description of Di Mon, Liege
> Monitum as possible.  I am trying something with colours and I
> thought Di Mon would be the best to start with.
>
> Mary

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posted by Lynda at 13:22   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 
Mel F. shared the following with me, inspired by reading Pretenders. She's Di Mon's #1 fan.

Dark and alone, he's in so much pain
In a world where he?s trapped by shame.
Many care but do not know.
Onward and up, he had to go.
Never forgotten, always forgiven,
what a bigoted world he had to live in.

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posted by Lynda at 09:19   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 

Yesterday, I finished cleaning up the manuscript for Pretenders, as phase one of getting the document ready for the publisher. It will now be proof read by wonderful, willing members of the First Expansion and their corrections input prior to its delivery to Brian Hades of Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy at ConVersion in Calgary this August.

Pretenders, Book #3 in the Okal Rel saga, features POV characters Amel,Ayrium, Di Mon and Ev'rel. The central question of the plot is who will fill the empty throne of the Gelack empire. The personal challenge for the characters caught up in that struggle is how to sustain a false front, when their true selves are always threatening to burst out. Amel, raised a commoner, wants to survie as a highborn. Ayrium must make friends at court to protect her home. Di Mon must swear to whoever will keep the empire strong, despite his personal inclinations, and juggle his feelings for the Reetion, Ranar. Ev'rel puts on a "Demish woman" act to keep the support of Silver Hearth. Everyone is his/her own worst enemy in maintaining false fronts, even before their plans are scrambled by the outcomes of duels and the awakening spirit of a legend.

Amel Snippet Amel was speechless. A wife? A princess? he thought. Just like that? All the places inside him that ought to react to a thing like that felt numb. Ev?rel patted his hand. ?Close your mouth, dear, and don?t fret. You can thank me later. Now I must go back to my guests. Can I trust you to behave until you are sent for?? He nodded. It seemed the only way to get rid of her.

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posted by Lynda at 07:48   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 
Just posted the text of this entry, by Alison, to the First Expansion list of creatives who support and contribute to the ORU. The concordance is coming along. Alison is doing her best to convince me to move the whole ORU website (long acknowledged to be a messy attic trunk of stuff) into a tidier, more modern web presence. Stuff she and I have been doing with the Concordance, on tiddlywiki, is encouraging me to face the prospect of the Big Overhaul. Still makes me hyperventilate a bit, though. Guess I'm the Silver Demish traditionalist here, to her Nersallian "but it will work so much better if ..." We'll keep you posted. :-) The concordance-in-progress can be found at http://okalrel.tiddlyspot.com/ . If you know the ORU well enough to help us populate the concordance, by all means get in touch!

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posted by Lynda at 10:45   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 

A Di Mon and Ranar love picture by Mel, is up on the ORU gallery.

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posted by Lynda at 19:55   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 

It's been a while! But Mel has inspired me to start putting up pictures on the gallery page for the saga, again. Pleased to add her sketch of Di Mon.

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posted by Lynda at 22:21   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post

 
Follow the link to a positive reception for Righteous Anger from T.M. Martin of the Yet Another Book Review site. Best of all, he concludes with "Bring on the third volume" which is both exciting and daunting as I struggle with same. Horth was a dream to work with as an author - he's so direct! Di Mon plays a larger role in the third volume, Pretenders, and is anything but straight forward, damn him. Not to mention the multiple story line challenge. But at least I have the theme which is how power (fear of it, desire for it, or the mere fact it exists in the form it does) forces people to "pretend" to be something they aren't; the impact on identity which results; and how people either break or cope.

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posted by Lynda at 09:10   0 comments permalink comment? e-mail lynda@okalrel.org 0 comments links to this post