NobleDead.org - High/Dark Fantasy Fiction by Barb Hendee and J.C. Hendee

Of­fi­cial site for the high/dark fan­tasy books of au­thors Barb Hendee and J. C. Hendee, in­clud­ing the Noble Dead Saga (a.k.a. The Noble Dead se­ries), the Mist-Torn Witches se­ries, the Vam­pire Mem­o­ries se­ries, and TNDS: Tales from the world of the Noble Dead Saga.

A Little Tale on Works in Progress…

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HW3_Tales_Logo_128J.C. and Barb re­ceived the copy­ed­i­tor’s notes for S3B2: The Dog in the Dark and are going over that whole man­u­script now while work­ing on the next one al­ready in the plan­ning process (S3B3, un­ti­tled as yet). Need­less to say, the scram­ble is on, though that’s al­ways the way of things this time of year. Mid-sum­mer and over the year’s end hol­i­days are al­ways hec­tic. Still no fi­nal­ized ver­sion for the cover of S3B2, but as soon as that is of­fi­cially set­tled, we’ll share it with you.

Tales from the world of the Noble Dead Saga

The next entry, sched­uled for Au­gust (as listed on the Tales page at No­bleDead.org), will be Bones of the Earth, II: Kar­ras the Cat by J.C. Need­less to say, it might push back to the sec­ond week in Au­gust, as work on the saga it­self al­ways takes prece­dence. J.C. has extra stuff on his desk, as well, such as man­ag­ing on­line pres­ence(s) and web sys­tems, and de­sign­ing cov­ers and com­pil­ing these short e-sto­ries. He also man­ages all in­ter­ac­tions with our on­line ven­dors for these works.

When we first launched the “Tales” pro­ject, we pub­lished a hand­ful of en­tries more quickly than planned. We’ll lean back to the orig­i­nal sched­ule of one per month to six weeks. Also, as men­tioned be­fore, there will be no “Tales” re­leases dur­ing the 30 days be­fore and 60 days after the re­lease of any vol­ume in the Noble Dead Saga. That is also a busy, busy time of year for us. Though a new book is fin­ished and will be pro­duced by our pub­lisher to hits the shelves around the first of the new year, work on the next vol­ume for the fol­low­ing year be­comes even more hot and heavy be­hind the scenes.

The Mist-Torn Witches

Barb turned in the re­vi­sion (based on ed­i­tor’s notes) for the first vol­ume in her new se­ries, which bears the se­ries name as its title. This se­ries is set in the world of the Noble Dead Saga, specif­i­cally the na­tion of Droevinka (Magiere’s orig­i­nal home­land) with all of its dark su­per­sti­tions and strange pol­i­tics around the great noble houses al­ways vying for con­trol of the throne of the Grand Prince.

There may be a few old faces and names pop up that ap­peared in S1B3: Sis­ter of the Dead, but no main char­ac­ters from the saga are part of this au­tonomous se­ries. You’re going to meet new char­ac­ters that are def­i­nitely dif­fer­ent than those of the saga. More to come on this as things de­velop. In­for­ma­tion for the books in this se­ries will even­tu­ally be listed at both No­bleDead.org and Barb­Hendee.org.

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