Delicate Sound of Thunder - Duinn Fionn - Prologue, part 1

One year ago, and with no real expectations, I posted my first HP novel. I'm still amazed at how many readers loved A Thousand Beautiful Things, and I appreciate all of you who've told me so. Thank you! Oh, and anno_domino posted a gorgeous cover for ATBT today, in her LJ. So cool!

I never expected to have anything else to write in that universe. But I'd created some original characters in ATBT, and I started wondering what would happen if they met.... and wondering led to plotting, which led to writing. And here we are.

I started writing this sequel last September and had a first draft done by December. You'll notice that I've been revising it longer than I, er, vised it in the first place. That's because I have some of the world's best beta editors: isiscolo, ajhalluk, ravurian, and kattiya. They weren't letting me release it until it no longer sucked (although they phrased it more politely). I owe them a huge thank you (and also flowers and chocolate).

You may have noticed I'm not the world's fastest writer. I have to write and rewrite, add and delete, cut and paste. You'd be stunned to learn how many hundreds of hours went into this. The final story is about 60,000 words; I probably wrote 120,000 and snuffed half.

If it's been a while since you've read ATBT, you may want to revisit it, because, sequel, right? But rather than hack your way through all 108,001 words of it again (although I sure won't discourage you!), you can sneak by with the Cliff Notes version - a summary I wrote for accio_spoilers. It's just like being in college, only cheaper and exam-free.

In case you missed them, I also wrote two short stories in this universe: Autumn Can Really Hang You Up the Most, and Harry Potter and the Slytherin-Coloured Lamborghini.

I'm still working through the last few beta changes, and it'll take time to convert it to HTML, so I've decided to do something different to reward your patience. The prologue is entitled "Five Letters" (for reasons that aren't the least enigmatic). I plan to post one "letter" in my LJ every day or so (keep in mind I'm so far west my day probably starts much later than yours does). On the last day I'll post the entire story on Skyehawke. I wouldn't call these cookies, because they won't spoil your appetite. More like canapes, except you can't pick off the mysterious gray bits.

( Delicate Sound of Thunder - Prologue - Part 1 )

Animated trailer for DSOT by Ravurian

This is too cool not to share immediately! ravurian made an animated trailer for Delicate Sound of Thunder! Thank you so much. If you can handle the bandwidth, click on the box below, then click again on the box that appears.

Ravurian's DSOT art trailer