Empyrean Vengeance is my current work-in-progress. I first came up with the story world idea when I was phone banking for 15 hours a week during the 2012 elections and spending too much time staring out the windows because phone banking for politicians is a thankless job and you mostly just get answering machines (and people cussing you out). During my boredom, I began wondering how a society would function if, instead of living on the ground, people had wings and lived in floating landmasses that moved around in the sky like clouds. You couldn’t have any real empires since landmasses were always moving about–so how would societies function if they were isolated into little city-states which only randomly passed by each other?
The idea rattled around in my head for about three years as it eventually turned from a simple world premise to a full story premise. Finally, in the late summer of 2015, I sat down and began to write the novel that would become Empyrean Vengeance. I finished the 120,000 word novel that Christmas, spent the next two years editing the novel, and am currently shopping it around to literary agents and publishers. In the meantime, you can read the premise and first three chapters below.
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Story Premise
Revolutions are always dangerous.
Especially when family is involved.
For years, twin brothers Keiyan and Telior have been raising a revolution to undermine their father’s tyrannical rule of the airborne island of Berkha Tor. Finally, they’re ready to unleash their army on their father. But to counter their father’s mage, they’ll need a mage of their own.
And Telior refuses to hire one out of moral principles.
If they don’t have a mage, their father’s mage will destroy their army and put an end to their revolutionary efforts. If that happens, who will save the people from their father’s unrelenting fist? Keiyan is left with little other choice. And so he does the only thing he can do: he hires a mage behind Telior’s back.
The days to their planned revolution are ticking down. If Keiyan can keep their hired mage a secret from Telior and their revolution a secret from their father, maybe together, he and Telior will be able to bring about a new age of freedom for the people of Berkha Tor.
There’s only one problem:
Secrets never stay secrets for long.
Especially when family is involved.
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Read the first three chapters of Empyrean Vengeance by clicking the link below
