Children of the Wells – Coming Soon!

I’ve always been fascinated with serialized, multi-author projects.

Back in 2005-2006, I helped organize The Story Project, a two-year, multi-author project consisting of the fictional blogs of 13 characters as their lives intertwined in a New England mansion.

A few years later, I helped organize a pulp fiction project where writers wrote a third of a pulpy story then exchanged with each other, wrote another third, then exchanged for a final time before writing an ending. This is where Nathan Marchand’s Destroyer comes from, which is the inspiration for House of the Living. (Incidentally, I have a barbarian story from those days I mean to dust off sometime this year.)

Children of the Wells (CotW) is the newest and most ambitious of these projects.

CotW is a shared world, meaning that multiple author will contribute to the same world. The novels will be episodic, meaning they are self-contained but contribute to an ongoing storyline. They will be serialized, meaning you can read new content each week. And they will be good.

You  may have read the summary before:

The Cataclysm destroyed our magic wells and, along with them, our technology, our scientific advancements, and our aristocracy. We thought the world was dying. Forced to rely on our former enemies, we evolved, but in those first days, we had no inkling of the true extent of that change.

The world is almost-modern fantasy, where technology developed differently due to the possibilities opened up by magic. The story begins with a disaster in the scientific capital of the world, Jalseion, that changes everything.

The Select’s Bodyguard, the first novel set in this universe, begins serialization the first week in April and starts off with a bang.

We want these stories to be interesting, exciting, and character-focused. In The Select’s Bodyguard, you’ll be introduced to Bron and Calea. I think you’ll enjoy these characters, though you may hate one and love the other.

Check out childrenofthewells.com to sign up for our newsletter and spread the word! We want to reach people with our stories. If you’re interested, tell others. We’d love the publicity.

It’s coming….