When you are greeted each day by a black stone landscape, it influences your perspective on life. Such is a common failing among those who live on dour, lifeless islands from which they can never leave. Tress had been raised to possess a certain inalienable pragmatism. That moniker was, in Tress’s estimation, the most interesting thing about her. The girl had been given the unfortunate name of Glorf upon her birth (don’t judge it was a family name), but her wild hair earned her the name everyone knew her by: Tress.
Yet still some strands always found way to escape–and would wave free in the wind, eagerly greeting everyone she passed. Each morning, she heroically tamed it with brush and comb, then muzzled it with a ribbon and a tight braid. That would instead be her hair’s unruliness. In her estimation, “light brown” was sufficiently descriptive–though the hue of her hair was not its most interesting trait. There seemed to be a hunger to such men that was best avoided. The girl wondered why men so often used food to describe women’s features. Others would call it the color of flax, or occasionally the color of honey. Men often described the girl as having hair the color of wheat. The girl, however, might be as you imagined–assuming you imagined her as thoughtful, soft-spoken, and overly fond of collecting cups. Nor was the rock like the one you have imagined. This was not an ocean like the one you have imagined. In the middle of the ocean, there was a girl who lived upon a rock. Tress of the Emerald Sea Chapter One: The Girl This exclusive content appears only in the emailed newsletter. (With some commentary from me at the bottom.) Enjoy! The first book’s title is: Tress of the Emerald Sea Either way, thank you all so much for all the support!Īll right, here we go. At the bottom of these chapters, here in the newsletter, I’ll talk a little about my inspirations for this book. If you prefer to listen, you can go to YouTube and watch this video of me doing a reading of them. But for anyone who does, I’ve included the first five chapters here. We’re going to leave some blank space after this introduction so you won’t see anything you don’t want to see. We’ve been hiding the titles for now, as we want to let people be surprised and completely unspoiled for the books if they want. Today, I’m announcing the title and first chapters of Secret Project Number One.
You can watch my YouTube announcement here, if you missed it on Tuesday. We will likely soon become the #1 Kickstarter of all time. If you somehow didn’t hear about it, we announced a Kickstarter for four secret novels! It’s live now, and is…well, kind of unbelievable.
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