Good evening.
This post is a long time coming. I finished When the Red Moon Runs Dry. It's done and up on Amazon if you would like to buy or borrow it.
I have a few things to share about it since I'm done and can reminisce about the story.
This story was in my head for a very long time. Before I even knew who Marshal Noel or Violetta Iolanda were, I knew very well who the Masokan Pirates were. A poor group of slaves and misfits, on a drug-induced crusade, with the most powerful weapons at their disposal. When the Red Moon Runs Dry was almost the first novel I wrote, but the problem I kept running into was that these Masokan Pirates would have been easily dealt with by the hundreds of governments and warlords that exist in the future.
Find the Star was my answer to that problem.
Shattering the military infrastructures around the galaxy made it a perfect time for the Masokan Pirates to start building a galaxy in the eyes of their God. Six years after the cataclysm in Find the Star is where the story of the Masokan Pirates attempts to do just that begin.
This story was in my head, but I did not begin to flesh it out until I discovered a podcast called Hardcore History, narrated and produced by a man named Dan Carlin. He happened to be doing a series of podcasts on Genghis Khan, followed shortly there after on the reformation of Christianity in Europe. Those two historical events are what gave me insight into why human beings might do the things they do in a harsh existence. I do not mean to infer that the Masokan Pirates are based on Christians or any other religion, only religious extremists of all creeds. It was a perfect storm of historical perspective for me as I was finishing my editing on Find the Star and could not wait to begin writing When the Red Moon Runs Dry. If you have never heard Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast, I highly recommend you do so. It's free on iTunes and other places.
While creating a universe in which When the Red Moon Runs Dry could take place, I realized that it should set the stage for the next story of Marshal Noel and Violetta Iolanda. I was planning on taking a break from this universe, but a story came to me I could not ignore. I just started The Falling Stars, which will be the third book in this series I still do not have a name for. I stand by that this series will end with either four or five books, and I really hope it does.
Anyways, I don't expect there are a lot of you out there reading, but I'm grateful for the few who are. I will try to update this more, but The Falling Stars is drawing much of my attention.
