The Book of Lore

The Forgotten World Series, as I'm calling it for now, is not one tale told in episodes, such as a trilogy. Rather, it is like the Harper Series from TSR Books. As a side note, Artis Cimber and the Ring of Winter was my favorite of the ones I read from that series, but I stopped somewhere about book 7 or 8. The Forgotten World tales will simply be a series of novels on the same subject, involing some or all of the characters in many (but not all) of the books, not unlike the way The Numa Files from Clive Cussler are written. Currently, I have five books, two are beyond the first draft stage (The Forgotten World, The Book of Lore), and three are somewhere between short story and novella length, as they were in their initial drafts. These are The Heather Moor, The Sacrifice, and The Hammer.

The Book of Lore was the first book written in the series, although I decided to break out the first part of the book as a stand-alone introduction to the Forgotten World. So, chronologically, this one became second, and The Forgotten World first. It is currently in third and final draft stage, and is probably the better of the first two tales, both in storyline and content.

The initial pitch (which will surely change):
Five years after being hideously scarred and crippled, Flynn O'Reilly finds himself in the sights of his nemesis once again. When the corrupt guard of the evil Lord Mayor of Gideon burns his woodland home to the ground, Flynn knows that soon they will return for him. Now, to save what is left of his sanctuary and his life, Flynn will have to ally himself with a dragon, a dark elf, and his old friends...if he can leave behind the bitterness that comes with being abandoned to his fate.

More on this later as I go through the third draft and revise the pitch before submission.

Shaun