The Temple of the Exploding Head

I was fooling around with the CSS editor and totally killed this blog page for a few hours until I figured out what I did. I think it’s pretty much back to the way it was.

A good person should always know their limitations, and I certainly know mine.

I suck at summing things up.

I suppose it’s like asking a person who’s lived in a certain place all their life for directions–you end up getting some cryptic, unfollowable spouting of local lore instead of clear, concise directions. That’s how I am with blurbing. I’m just too close to the matter and I’m terrible at it.

Here’s my attempt to blurb The Dead Held Hands. I kept it short and sweet:

“In the ruins of a distant castle, a light comes on, signaling the end of everything …

Kabyl, son of the famed Captain Davage, discovers the world around him is not as it seems. His Beloved is a haunted woman, full of secrets. She looks over her shoulder at things that are not there. What is she so afraid of?

The Dead hold hands, they say, and lend the living their power. Will they hold hands for Lord Kabyl as he ventures into the unknown?”

THE DEAD HELD HANDS (TDHH) is the first book in the Temple of the Exploding Head trilogy. The title of this book went through quite a few incarnations before I finally settled on TDHH. It started as Lady Sammidoran of Monama, but most people thought it fell rather flat. “What’s a Mo-nama?” people asked. Slipping into a Dr. Who mode, I started a long line of similar titles: Sorrow of the Monamas, Elegy of the Monamas, Dirge of the Monamas–you get the picture. Eventually, I put it to a vote on facebook. The very last title that I threw in, mostly on a lark, was The Dead Held Hands, and that’s the one everybody liked, so I said what the heck. The Dead Held Hands is due out in March, 2011, from Loconeal Publishing.