{"id":422,"date":"2012-07-04T14:10:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T19:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=422"},"modified":"2012-07-04T14:10:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T19:10:01","slug":"vengeance-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/vengeance-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Vengeance Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s forget our political woes for the moment, and get down to the important stuff \u2013 where am I with the third novel in Malmaxa?\u00a0 Namely, Vengeance Cost<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Well, I could lie, and say Vengeance Cost<\/em> is going great.\u00a0 Or, I could lie and say I\u2019m struggling.\u00a0 Though it goes against everything I am as a man, I won\u2019t lie (but I console myself in this by keeping my lips firmly pressed together as I type \u2013 they aren’t moving, therefore I’m not lying…).\u00a0 Vengeance Cost<\/em> is going \u2026 OK.<\/p>\n

I have already defined the main threads, and even written the first 44 pages of the story.\u00a0 So, I just lied \u2013 Malmaxa really writes itself \u2013 there, I feel better already :).\u00a0 Don\u2019t hold your breath though, there is a massive amount of work to be done before Vengeance Cost<\/em> approaches readiness for release.\u00a0 That said, things are definitely getting faster.\u00a0 Beltamar\u2019s War <\/a>took me about two years (after literally a lifetime of dreaming about it), The Pilgrimage<\/a> took just over a year, so perhaps Vengeance Cost<\/em> will be out in less than a year?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so, though hope springs eternal.<\/p>\n

One of the things I\u2019m doing as I work on Vengeance Cost<\/em> is re-reading both Beltamar’s War<\/em> and\u00a0The Pilgrimage<\/em> to ensure continuity.\u00a0 A side effect of that is that I will be releasing a revised edition of The Pilgrimage<\/em> \u2013 I know this is hard to believe, but I\u2019ve actually found several sentences that are currently beneath my \u00a0already low standards.\u00a0 The paperback version of The Pilgrimage\u00a0<\/em>will be released with that revision.<\/p>\n

In case you\u2019re wondering, the title of the third novel in Malmaxa\u00a0was set to be \u201cThe Un-Matched Prophet<\/em><\/strong>\u201d.\u00a0 As with many things Malmaxa, that changed on a fateful impulse.\u00a0 Though I won\u2019t say what that impulse was, for fear of spoiling things for my readers, I will say this:-<\/p>\n

I find that much beloved, and often visited,\u00a0perception, \u201cSometimes you must do the wrong thing, for the right reason<\/em>\u201d, to be fatally flawed.\u00a0 Wrong, is wrong<\/strong>.\u00a0 Though the perpetrator of wrong might eventually find their way to right, there is invariably a better path to justice than the one that leads through wrong.\u00a0 Evil\u2019s taint becomes increasingly tolerable, with each exposure\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Still, the reasons that good people do bad things are compelling.\u00a0 Poor behavior is almost endlessly fascinating.\u00a0 Since Malmaxa is a thinly veiled look at real life, not even its best characters are exempt from poor choices and disastrous decisions.<\/p>\n

Does vengeance have a cost?<\/strong>\u00a0 Indeed, it does and in Malmaxa, multiple paths lead toward vengeance.\u00a0 The question must therefore be \u2013 To which thread in my written tapestry does the title refer, and\u00a0what price will the capricious Gods levy for its satisfaction?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s forget our political woes for the moment, and get down to the important stuff \u2013 where am I with the third novel in Malmaxa?\u00a0 Namely, Vengeance Cost. Well, I could lie, and say Vengeance Cost is going great.\u00a0 Or, I could lie and say I\u2019m struggling.\u00a0 Though it goes against everything I am as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[244,246,448],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-malmaxa","tag-malmaxa-iii","tag-vengeance-cost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}