While the upcoming series
The Chronosmith Chronicles jumps off from
Seasons of War: Gallifrey, we make sure to note that
Gallifrey is not required reading for the new books. And that's completely true! While readers of the charity novel might catch some things that new readers won't, the new books will be completely stand-alone and enjoyable on their own.
That said, according to Kara's calendar of weird holidays, it's National Inventors Day in the United States. And no one fits the bill there better than our own Mordicai.
So who
is Mordicai?
When Kara and Paul first teamed up to write
Gallifrey, they had to create four characters. Funnily (and luckily!) enough, each of them quickly took to two of the four plotted-out personalities. Kara "adopted" Savalia and Kendo, with Paul in charge of Mordicai and Tor Fasa. Once their personalities and histories were worked out individually, the notes were brought together of a series of Skype calls, and their stories intersected into what became the charity novel.
Each of the characters had (and has) a short title, with Mordicai's being "The Engineer." This was a very on-the-nose term in
Gallifrey, being the name he actually ended up calling himself by. But Mordicai will just be himself as a Chronosmith: an engineer who keeps things working.
Mordicai and Savalia—our Soldier-Poet—make up the romantic leads of the team, and we have very firm rules in place for them. They've had a lot of their relationship trial-by-fire already, after all. At first glance, the two have very little in common: Mordicai is very logic-bound and rule-driven, while Savalia learns rules for the purposes of bending them (from a creative standpoint, at least). They're both past attempting to change each other's ways, though; both ways of thinking have their uses, after all, and aren't necessarily at odds with each other.
Going forward, Mordicai is absolutely the brains, and the designated driver, of the Chronosmiths. Where Savalia leans on emotion, Kendo on diplomacy, and Fasa on influence, Mordicai will always be the most down-to-earth (so to speak).
Saying much more would give away what we have planned... and we have a
lot planned! In the meantime, there are still copies of
Seasons of War: Gallifrey, both digital and physical, should you be curious about the origins of the series.
Pick up your copies now, as we won't be doing a second printing of this particular book!
And stay tuned for more news about
The Chronosmith Chronicles and our other upcoming projects.