The cringe that was my first (unpublished) novel
Story time.
My first published novel, which many of you have read, was “The Atlantis Papyrus.” It came out in 2019 and took about 1.5 years to write. It continues to do well and most readers go on to read the rest of the series.
But was that my first attempt?
No.
In 2010, when I was living in London (which I love, by the way, and the weather didn’t bother me one bit, but I digress), I made my first attempt at novel writing. I shudder at that, but we all learn from our follies.
The name of the book was “14 Days.” It was about a serial killer in London, a very disgruntled man upset…
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323 B.C., Babylon
King Alexander the Great has died, and his bloodthirsty generals quarrel for the pieces of a vast empire. But Captain Deon faces his own nightmare, born of a shameful past: a vicious lender threatens to sell his wife and young daughter into slavery if he does not clear his crippling debt.
Hope glimmers when the dead king’s wily secretary dangles a mission that whispers of an unimaginable reward.
Thrust into the murky and dangerous waters of succession where his success holds the keys to the ultimate prize, Alexander’s throne, Deon faces a terrifying choice: complete the mission and earn his family’s freedom, or refuse and let them perish in Nubia’s brutal gold mines.
Assisted by a companion as skilled in tongues as she is with a dagger, and pursued by malignant forces that will stop at nothing, Deon must cross violent lands to find an astonishing mystery hidden for a thousand years. But every step closer to freedom unveils a burden far heavier than his debt, for his choices could determine not only his family’s fate but that of a million innocents.
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