It is Finnished

Quick, what did the one Finnish man say to the other Finnish man?

 

Answer: "You may be a Finnish, but you're not the Finnish."

 

Similarly, let me be the first to tell you that The Kinmark Saga is now complete. I finished (see, I can spell it the right way!) writing the first draft of The Name of the Emperor late last night. Aside from the bit of exhaustion brought about by demanding completion even after the last chapter expanded into two chapters, I feel pretty great today. My four-book-long baby is now fully alive. Like Frankenstein and Eminem, I've created a monster.

 

However, that monster needs its own children. Or, perhaps, it needs new parents. I'm not exactly sure which way to put it. In any case, this is where my Nordic barb comes in. You see, The Kinmark Saga was always going to be just the beginning of a larger story. Now that I think of it, maybe it's just the monster's head, just the tip of the scalp showing as my Victorian-style wooden elevator lifts the reanimated corpse into view for the first time.

 

Whether it's as a bastard child, derelict parent, or haunting haircut, this first series of mine is only a piece of the puzzle. Its final book, The Name of the Emperor (which will be out in a matter of a few weeks, date to be determined), is an ending, but it's not the ending (like the tragically misrepresented Finns have told us). In the near future, I'll be making a new page with a bit of a deeper explanation on what that means, but I wanted to get back on the saddle with these posts now that this book is done.

 

For now, just know that the larger story I'm telling is called The Song of Creation and that it's my intention to tell it through multiple series and books that can stand on their own. If you're a fantasy reader (I certainly hope you are) or a comic book movie watcher, this is my own version of an expanded universe. I hope to write it all in a way that each story focuses on itself rather than The Song of Creation so it doesn't read like another huge fantasy epic. In other words, each story will have an ending that satisfies.

 

But, much like sword-wielding immortals in that classic 80's movie I totally hope you've seen, for the larger story I'm telling, there can be only one. Ending, that is.