Eberron novels?

[Ottergame]

What about Dek, the changeling from the King of Fire? He may be shady, but he doesn't do anything evil - if anything, Lei and Daine cheat him!


This is a valid concern. The problem was that many of the characters have important ties to dragonmarked houses - which, in turn, defines race. And I didn't want to have more than four main characters, because already it's difficult to give them all screen time; as you observe, Pierce does stick to the background, though in part because that's his nature.

I will say that you'll get considerably more insight into Pierce in the Shattered Land. And in a trilogy called "The Dreaming Dark", it should come as no surprise that kalashtar have a significant role to play. There's no featured changelings or shifters (though no evil changelings, either) - but that's two of the four new races. And hey, Marked for Death has changelings and shifters in prominant roles. I can't do EVERYTHING myself.

I fully understand that, you can't stuff EVERYTHING into a book without it becoming so bogged down in details that it just becomes a dull read. Though other fantasy authors try.

Still those are minor complaints about a really good book. I can't wait for the others to come out.

 

[sniffles]

No, and one reason they aren't releasing things any faster is because I took too long to write The Shattered Land, so I'm to blame as much as anyone else. I'm going to do my best keep on top of things with Book Three. If I (ha!) end up with spare time on my hands, maybe I'll see if I can get permission to put up some short stories on www.BossytheCow.com.


Hi, Sniffles! Good luck! (I just starting playing in MY first Eberron campaign, since I'm usually the DM!)

Thanks for the info! I'll just have to reread City of Towers when the next book comes out.

Did anyone besides me find one irksome bit in Marked For Death regarding an elven racial immunity that seemed to be casually handwaved aside in order to progress the plot? (I'd do a spoiler hide but Internet Explorer won't let me).

 

[Hellcow]

As a wacky side note, just for kicks I'm doing a weekly casting call on my website to see who people would see in City of Towers: The Movie (not, mind you, that anyone will ever SEE such a thing...). So if you've got an opinion about who YOU see as Daine, drop by and let me know!

 

[BadMojo]

Really, the only problem I had with City of Towers was that the goblin girl was described as green in one scene and orangey in another. Beyond that, the book kept me well and sucked in. Good job, Keith, especially for a first novel. I look forward to the second one.

Maybe she was a kinda orangey shade of green, or perhaps a greenish shade of orange. Maybe she's speckled, striped or mottled. Anyway, I didn't even notice that.

As far as Pierce "sneaking" in to scenes, it can be kind of like the Kragar character in Brust's Vlad Taltos books. Nobody ever notices him in the room until he says something.

As I said before, I enjoyed your book very much. There are very few of the WotC novels that I've really been able to get in to, and yours was one of them. I certainly wouldn't sweat the bad reviews.