Thraxas and the Elvish Isles has just appeared as an ebook. Turai being as cold the Ice Queen's grave, Thraxas sailed south for a while. It was a rare excursion from his normal life in the city streets, though not from his excesses of food and drink. Even while surrounded by Elves, Thraxas never loses sight of the central importance of getting a lot of food and drink inside him.
Kindle: US, UK, CA - iBooks - Kobo
Kindle: US, UK, CA - iBooks - Kobo
Thraxas and the Elvish Isles is book four in the series. So, with book nine, Thraxas and the Ice Dragon, already being published, I'm now more than half way through my ambitious project to unleash the entire Thraxas series into the world of ebooks. This is going well. Once again, thanks to the people who have given them good customer reviews when they've bought them.
I have also been surrounded by Elves, in a way. It's been snowing in London in the past few days, making it a very poor start to Spring. Not having any Elvish Isles to sail to, I've turned the heating up, and retreated permanently to the couch, applying myself to the first Skyrim downloadable extension, Dragonborn. This, scandalously late, was only recently released for Playstation, though other formats have been available for a long time. So I am once again battling my way through hostile environments, mowing down all opposition, and generally giving hostile wizards, Elves, dragons and bandits a hard time.
In-between I've been reading a biography of Somerset Maugham, one of my favourite authors. Maugham was a great storyteller, even if a reluctant one at times. He really wanted to be a playwright rather than a novelist, because he found it tedious describing things. He thought it would be easier just writing dialogue. I can sympathise with this. Who wants to be describing things all the time? It can be really tedious. Nonetheless, Somerset Maugham was a really fine novelist and short story writer, and I've learned from his technique.
The Moon and Sixpence is my total fav of his books.
ReplyDeleteI really like The Moon and Sixpence too, it's so interestingly told, with the gaps and the uncertainties about parts of the story.
DeleteReal pleasure of Dragonborn, for me, is the return to something like Morrowind. In fact I wish they would simply re-release Morrowind, but with the graphics and gameplay brought uptodate - I'd repurchase it!
ReplyDeleteI've never played it, as it was never released on Playstation, which is the only format I have. I'd like to play it, though I'm not certain how I'd like the older games in the series, after starting with Skyrim.
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