I just saw that it's been about two weeks sonce the last post. Time really flies when you're having fun, or working. Progress continues on Volume One of The Girl From the El Dorado Star System. At present there are 26 chapters in the outline for volume one. All four of them are completed. I'm focusing on chapter 18 right now, Solitaire Revelation. That one is almost completed. The remaining three will take a little more work.
Once the remaining chapters are finished then it's time for a final text edit and any revisions, and then it's off to an editor for e-formatting and a pro cover. Once that's doen it'll be ready for the Smashwords Premire Catalog! I may decide to publish chapter drafts on this blog. Haven't made up my mind yet.
Meanwhile the free preview of Chapter Seven: One Shot, One Kill has gotten a five star review on Smashwords, and an expressed desire to see the completed novel! Yeah!
peace, J. Allen Wilder
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Friday, January 3, 2014
Honor Harrington and the movie in the works
One thing I'm really excited about right now is hearing about the upcoming Honor Harrington movie, projected to hit the big screen in 2016. David Weber's Honor Harrington series is right now my all-time favorite science fiction. It even beats out the reimagined Battlestar Galactica and its spin-off Caprica. Not familiar with the reimagined Battlestar Galactica? Read about it on Wikipedia and follow the links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series).
I was a very late bloomer when it came to Honor Harrington, discovering the series only in 2008. It came out in the early 90's. Honor Harrington is perhaps the best, or at least among the very best, in military science fiction and space opera to be found in English at the moment. Just think of a futuristic Tom Clancy; The Hunt for Red October, The Sum of All Fears, Red Storm Rising, and some of his other novels set 2,000 years in the future. Mix that with a little bit of Patrick O'Brian, Alexander Kent, and C. S. Forrester (think of the characters Richard Bolitho, Jack Aubrey, and Horatio Hornblower). Throw in some pretty hard science, and some theoretical physics. Add some good, solid themes and values (like honor, integrity, loyalty, honesty, duty, perserverance, human dignity, family, and friends...). Finally add a strong female lead character. Stir well. That's Honor Harrington.
There's been talk in the past about Honor Harrington on the big screen and nothing has come of it. This time it appears something is happening. Evergreen Films (http://www.evergreenfilms.com/worlds/tales-of-honor) has been working closely with David Weber and started preproduction last summer. These are the people who did Walking With Dinosaurs. And they seem pretty committed to doing Honor Harrington and sticking as close to the books as possible. AND they are committed at the moment to producing multiple movies and going trans-media with the project.
Like a lot of other fans who have commented in Honor Harrington forums, I hope they don't mess this up, because if they handle this the right way, and it appears they are trying to, then you need to hang on to your seat, because this will leave Star Trek in the dust. (No, I don't hate Star Trek. I've said this before. But, there can be better science fiction than Star Trek out there.)
Apparently the first movie will be based on the 2nd novel in the series, The Honor of the Queen. At the moment the Amazon Kindle version is FREE! Don't know why, and I don't know for how long, but right this moment it's...FREE! You can get it here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Honor-Queen-Harrington-ebook/dp/B00BBI9WD6/ref=tmm_kin_title_0.
You can find the entire Honor Harrington series at Baen Books here: http://www.baen.com/series_list.asp?letter=H.
Here are a few other links about Honor Harrington and the Honorverse:
The Royal Manticoran Navy (the official Honor Harrington Fan Association): http://www.trmn.org/portal/. Yes, I am a member.
The Fan Association has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Royal-Manticoran-Navy-The-Official-Honor-Harrington-Fan-Association/212931642092718
A July 2013 post by David Weber about the movie is here: http://www.davidweber.net/posts/420-july-2013-movie-update.html
A Krypton Radio news article about the movie is here: http://kryptonradio.com/2013/07/29/news-flash-honor-harrington-films-move-forward/
David Weber's website is here: http://www.davidweber.net/
A description of the universe of Honor Harrington written by David Weber a few years back is here: http://www.library.beau.org/lib/ebooks/baen/01/More%20Than%20Honor/0671878573___4.htm
David B. Mattingly's book cover illustrations are here: http://www.davidmattingly.com/Pages/HONORHA.html
Wikipedia articles (with links and references for further reaing) about the character Honor Harrington and the Honorverse are here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_Harrington and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorverse.
HonorCon 2013 still has pages up. Check it out: http://honorcon2013.sched.org/. Wish I had been able to go, but my schedule didn't allow it. I missed a lot!
'Nuff for now!
Keep reading, keep writing, keep creating!
pax vobiscum, J Allen Wilder
I was a very late bloomer when it came to Honor Harrington, discovering the series only in 2008. It came out in the early 90's. Honor Harrington is perhaps the best, or at least among the very best, in military science fiction and space opera to be found in English at the moment. Just think of a futuristic Tom Clancy; The Hunt for Red October, The Sum of All Fears, Red Storm Rising, and some of his other novels set 2,000 years in the future. Mix that with a little bit of Patrick O'Brian, Alexander Kent, and C. S. Forrester (think of the characters Richard Bolitho, Jack Aubrey, and Horatio Hornblower). Throw in some pretty hard science, and some theoretical physics. Add some good, solid themes and values (like honor, integrity, loyalty, honesty, duty, perserverance, human dignity, family, and friends...). Finally add a strong female lead character. Stir well. That's Honor Harrington.
There's been talk in the past about Honor Harrington on the big screen and nothing has come of it. This time it appears something is happening. Evergreen Films (http://www.evergreenfilms.com/worlds/tales-of-honor) has been working closely with David Weber and started preproduction last summer. These are the people who did Walking With Dinosaurs. And they seem pretty committed to doing Honor Harrington and sticking as close to the books as possible. AND they are committed at the moment to producing multiple movies and going trans-media with the project.
Like a lot of other fans who have commented in Honor Harrington forums, I hope they don't mess this up, because if they handle this the right way, and it appears they are trying to, then you need to hang on to your seat, because this will leave Star Trek in the dust. (No, I don't hate Star Trek. I've said this before. But, there can be better science fiction than Star Trek out there.)
Apparently the first movie will be based on the 2nd novel in the series, The Honor of the Queen. At the moment the Amazon Kindle version is FREE! Don't know why, and I don't know for how long, but right this moment it's...FREE! You can get it here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Honor-Queen-Harrington-ebook/dp/B00BBI9WD6/ref=tmm_kin_title_0.
You can find the entire Honor Harrington series at Baen Books here: http://www.baen.com/series_list.asp?letter=H.
Here are a few other links about Honor Harrington and the Honorverse:
The Royal Manticoran Navy (the official Honor Harrington Fan Association): http://www.trmn.org/portal/. Yes, I am a member.
The Fan Association has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Royal-Manticoran-Navy-The-Official-Honor-Harrington-Fan-Association/212931642092718
A July 2013 post by David Weber about the movie is here: http://www.davidweber.net/posts/420-july-2013-movie-update.html
A Krypton Radio news article about the movie is here: http://kryptonradio.com/2013/07/29/news-flash-honor-harrington-films-move-forward/
David Weber's website is here: http://www.davidweber.net/
A description of the universe of Honor Harrington written by David Weber a few years back is here: http://www.library.beau.org/lib/ebooks/baen/01/More%20Than%20Honor/0671878573___4.htm
David B. Mattingly's book cover illustrations are here: http://www.davidmattingly.com/Pages/HONORHA.html
Wikipedia articles (with links and references for further reaing) about the character Honor Harrington and the Honorverse are here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_Harrington and here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorverse.
HonorCon 2013 still has pages up. Check it out: http://honorcon2013.sched.org/. Wish I had been able to go, but my schedule didn't allow it. I missed a lot!
'Nuff for now!
Keep reading, keep writing, keep creating!
pax vobiscum, J Allen Wilder
Update: The Girl From the El Dorado Star System
Volume One, Chapter Seven: One Shot, One Kill, has been posted on Smashwords as a free preview. Still awaiting word on it's inclusion in the Smashwords Premium Catalog. You can download the enitre chapter here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/394047. It's free. Read it and have fun. It was fun to write it, and a little challenging. That is success enough. If it inspires someone to write their own stories, then it is even more of a sucecss.
Still working to complete Volume One: Winter's End. The story text, not including front matter and end matter, comes to over 91,000 words. The entire text, which includes a lexicon, character list, and end matter comes to over 101,000 words and 243 pages on a Word document. I expect up to 125,000 words for the finished document.
pax, J Allen Wilder
Still working to complete Volume One: Winter's End. The story text, not including front matter and end matter, comes to over 91,000 words. The entire text, which includes a lexicon, character list, and end matter comes to over 101,000 words and 243 pages on a Word document. I expect up to 125,000 words for the finished document.
pax, J Allen Wilder
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Re-edited free preview of The Girl From the El Dorado Star System
Just uploaded a re-edited version of the free preview of The Girl From the El Dorado Star System to Smashwords. This includes fixes to the bookmarks and hyperlinks (keep your fingers crossed) and some text editiing. You can find it here on Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/390467.
pax, j allen w
pax, j allen w
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