CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

The first words for today are taken from the current work in progress: A Planet's Debt , the fourth book in the Ransomeer's series. Here you go: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I let my gaze wander around the cave, taking in the myriad formations, both crystalline and not, and noting the vines straggling down from a hole in the ceiling. The sight made me shiver, and I wondered how large the hole was, because the drop was something I wouldn’t want to take. And I’d taken my share. God only knew how I hadn’t broken an ankle. “Penny for them?” Mitch asked, and I blinked. “You know,” I told him, “The usual.” He gave a soft snort. “So, basically, you want to make it to the coast, check for signs of the missing colonists, pop another drone so we can monitor it while we’re chasing rogue ships, and thoroughly irritate our handlers about as much as usual.” I grinned at him. “Yup.”...

What are we working on, now we've finished the fourth book in the Strays of Lunar One series? Well, there are several, but I always have a focus project, and the others get done as I can fit them in. The next focus project is rewrite of Dark God's Rise, the second book in the Chronicles of a Dark God trilogy. And here's the first chapter, in draft:  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 - The Temple Deeps The temple deeps were cool and quit. Brianda stalked carefully through their shadows, avoiding the pools of light cast by flickering lanterns. The silence made her ears ache, making it hard to concentrate on the game at hand. Personally, she didn’t see the point of playing, but Raomar had said Ghost needed something to do, and that they needed to train. “Thought you said you weren’t my master,” Brianda grumbled, and the ex-guildmaster had given her an icy stare. The Northman, ...