Twilight of Lanar’ya is now on sale in paperback (CreateSpace and Amazon) and eBook (Smashwords and Amazon).
…I’m not sure how people got confused about this but there were a lot of comments in the moderation queue about the vampire series Twilight. The only thing that Twilight of Lanar’ya and Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight have in common is the word “Twilight” in the title.
Twilight of Lanar’ya deals with the twilight era of the Lanarian Empire. It’s the time just before the Empire falls completely into collapse. I picked the name because it really is the “twilight” of a once-great civilization. Think of it as being something like the post-Augustinian Rome or post-Peloponnesian Greece.
Now, I have nothing against people who like Twilight. It is an okay time-waster. My brother enjoyed the books and I’ve read them. I just found them to be a little young for me. The characters were too one-dimensional, the plot was too pedestrian, and the angst and drama reminded me far too much of the melodramas from high school. Of course, that series was aimed at teenagers and not 30-somethings so, to each his own, I suppose. I tend to prefer sagas like A Song of Ice and Fire or the Stormlight Archives or the Wheel of Time. I like characters with a lot of depth, a lot of facets to their personalities, and I like larger-than-life action.
So, if you came here hoping to get a book like Meyer’s Twilight or to talk about that series, you’re in the wrong place. I do hope you do get my book and give it a try but I’m not in the same genre as that series (I write swords’n’sorcery fantasy, not urban paranormal fantasy) and I’m not targeting the same audience (I’m going for 16+, not 10+). If you did get here because of Twilight, feel free to stick around and to expand your reading horizons a bit. However, let’s not have any major flame wars or trolling over that series. It’s like fighting over whether or not you like a burger with the works or like it plain and simple. Everyone has different tastes.
As for me, time to get back to working on Midnight of Lanar’ya!
Twilight of Lanar’ya is now on sale in paperback (CreateSpace and Amazon) and eBook (Smashwords and Amazon).
Are you sure there’s nothing in common? lol Kidding! Kidding!