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Lion's Last Kill - A free Online Audio Pod Novel

Lion's Last Kill

Note: August 18 - This novel is now available at online book dealers. You can now purchase a paperback copy. Here is a link to amazon.com


For my Podcast Listeners please note: On Feb 9 2006 I have begun regular installments of the novel. I will podcast a new chapter every friday until the novel is complete. So you can tune in regularly. Remember that the novel is done and it is just a matter of me transcribing it into an MP3.

If you have a podcast player here is the feedburner feed. Just copy and paste it into your player

http://feeds.feedburner.com/LionsLastKill

 

- An Epic Fantasy novel written in short chapters -usually less than 12 mins each and written for the nanowrimo national novel writing month project. Travel along with Bosch as he attempts to find the solution to the "Machine" he has built. His quest takes him to "The Oracle" where the answer is not what he expected.

This is a podcast of the free online novel title Lion's Last Kill. It is an epic fantasy novel and it is a project that I undertook as a nanowrimo project. And note that it is an ongoing project so if you are following along and want to hear more just check back soon for the next chapters.

A little about the nanowrimo project:

November is National Novel Writing Month and the website Nanowrimo.org sponsors a contest where people sign up and pledge to write a novel of at least 50,000 words in the month. It is a fairly ambitious project and I am currently in the middle of writing my novel.

I am also reading it into a podcast so you can listen to it as I create it.

What do you need to do? You can click on the PupuPlayer and listen to it right now. (Note because this is an RSS feed the chapters are listed in reverse order. To listen to it in the correct order once the chapters have loaded in the player window click on Chapter One.

PupuPlayer FREE

 

Or you can go to my blog on the Novel:

Lions Last Kill Blog

 

If you prefer you can download the chapters as MP3 Files and listen to them on the player of your choice or at your leisure.

Meet Bosch and enter his peculiar mind where he has created an alter ego named Babbage to help store his observations about the world. Learn this through the chirping of a cricket he hears in his house.

Bosch is building a machine. What is it and what does it do? Hmm. this remains a mystery but he knows that he can find the solution to finishing the machine by asking the Oracle who is on another world. Travel with Bosch through the threadbender to this other world.

Bosch has built the threadbender many years before and he has traveled to this other world many times over the years. He arrives and meets with many of his friends in this world. He explains that he needs their help to travel to the Oracle who sits at the top of a mountain to the east -Mount Hoch.

Bosch's first day in the other world. We learn a little bit about it's history and the scrin guilds.

Bosch meets with Petra; the woman on this world that he so dearly loves.

Bosch meets with his dear friend Avram and learns of an assassination attempt and of other things that are changing in this world.

Bosch meets with the leader of the Military and they finalize the plans for the trek to Mount Hoch and the Oracle.

The plans are complete and Bosch says his goodbye to Petra and along with an armed escort leaves the castle, beginning his journey across the dangerous lands in his quest to climb mount Hoch and speak to the Oracle.

The Party enters the dangers of the Deep Forest and encounter the dreaded Blightbeast.

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The Party has made it through the deep forest safely, now they enter the danger of the swamps.

If you have a podcast player here is the feed to cut and paste into it::

 

Bosch and the party get their first sight of Mount Hoch. They make it through the swamps and meet up with the scouting party who have found a good spot to camp at the base of the mountain.

Bosch and the party arrive at the camp at the base of the mountain. They spend one night resting and planning before they begin the climb up mount Hoch. Boch has another unsettling dream. The power of the Oracle is starting to wear on him.

The First day of climbing is a good one. The weather is mild and the terrain is easy to navigate. The party finishes the day by making it to one of the portals at the halfway point up the mountain. Bosch considers the portals and the shape of the mountain and this brings him to a revelation about scrinsculpting and the Oracle.

The climb is starting to turn bad. The weather is changing and the terrain is becoming a challenge. They receive two messages from the base camp. The first message is troubling news. The second message is very bad. It comes from a dreaded Brek..........

The Third day of the climb is a difficult one. They are getting close to the top but as they are traversing the massive rock structure called the Dragon's Spine something happens...

Bosch and what is left of the party reach the final cliff face of Mount Hoch and in the biting cold and howling wind make the hand over hand rope climb to the top where they come to the door that leads them to the oracle.

 

  • Chapter 18(June 27) Bosch, along with the help of Babbage, has completed the maze and has come to the home of The Guide. Will she tell him the answer that he seeks?
  • Chapter 19 (June 30) Bosch has seen the Oracle and the Guide and he now possesses the answer to his question But he must get off the mountain and return to his world. And his fear of assassination comes true when.....
  • Chapter 20 (July 26) Bosch and Grel embark on the mission of getting back down off the mountain. What trouble awaits them? Will Bosch ever speak again? Will he able to speak the language of the everything?

 

  • Chapter 21 (August 3) Bosch and Grel are taken to the lair of the Brek where their horses are slaughtered and things get much worse for them.

 

  • Chapter 22 (August 10) Bosch and Grel are rescued from the lair of the Brek. But Bosch still cannot speak. Will he be able to tell the world of his secret?
  • Chapter 23 (August 16) Bosch returns to the castle and to Petra. Not only does he have news for her of the Oracle and of what he learned but she has some news for him.
  • Chapter 25 (August 25) People gather in the meeting room to hear the news that Bosch has brought. He tells them the word and they change. Now he only needs to return to his home and complete what he set out to do.
  • Chapter 26 (Sep 1) The final chapter - Find out how the novel ends There is an epilogue coming next week.

  • Chapter 26 (Sep 1) The final chapter - Find out how the novel ends There is an epilogue coming next week.
  • Epilogue This completes the novel. Thanks for listening. :)

 

 

  • If you have a podcast player here is the feedburner feed. Just copy and paste it into your player

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/LionsLastKill

     

     

 

 

here some great fantasy websites:

Storm The Castle.com - Fantasy and creativity with an edge

Epic-Fantasy.com - website devoted to the genre of epic fantasy

The Fantasy Guide - The complete guide to fantasy on the web

The Heroic Dreams Fantasy blog - daily updates and info on the genre in movies books and more

 

Knight-Medieval.com Everything about Knights from weapons to armor, chivalry and more.

 

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