Drum City - Sequel to Fox and the Flute

I was so excited about finishing my first novella, Fox and the Flute, I finished it by mentioning that I might make a sequel.

Well...

I did ended up beginning the sequel and shelving it there. I didn't know where to go with it. Then, sometime at the beginning of Fall 2013, I woke up thinking about the adventure in the FF world. It was, and still is, difficult to write blurbs about  FF because the main character, a charismatic contract-writer, doesn't have a name. I thought I was so clever when I first started writing it like that...Ugh.

So here I am, writing about Drum City. Essentially, it beings off a few weeks after the first book, with the same characters, in the North, as they said they would go there. However, things have changed because Miss Nameless Contract Writer completed her need for revenge. So, what does she do now?

That's where we begin. And this plot is faster paced than the first, with changes to how I wrote it. Enough of that! Here's a few picks I've been having fun with!

I've spent the last couple of weeks going over past blogs and I realize I miss a few things in my post about The Fox and the Flute. What I never mentioned in my blogs about FF were the theme and motifs that I worked into it. Most of the themes are shared by both FF and Drum City.

Themes:
Immortality
Vengeance
Consequences
Love and Friendship
Change

The World of FF and Drum City:

The map:

The main countries:
Atraba: Where this story starts. The Atraban people are technically just the southern half of the Crugan people but they broke off in a civil war prior to the beginning of FF. They tend to have brown hair.
Cruga: Is simply the north half of Atraba, but split off because of the civil war. They are very fond of and proud of their blond hair.
Meh'Choran Peoples: 
Deloraam: Are the "forest dwellers" of the island, retaining the richer portions and the majority of the power. They are more ritualistic and fierce of the various people and have always warred with everyone, particularly hating the Belourhin and Maytal.
Belourhin: Have been considered the "meadow" people, and live around the inner ring around the island. They tend to look down on everyone, warring with the Deloraam, and are a more traditional religious nation.
Maytal: The technically live everywhere, but they are considered an offshoot of the Belourhin, and have settled on the edges of the large island. They act as a Doctors With No Borders/ General Missionary system, for the FF world, as they try to breech the differences between the Deloraam and Belourhin (good luck with that) and are their own religion.
The North: The North has really been it's own thing. They are considered a people, but not one with any exact ruler or government. 

Characters:
Main Character: A spunky contract writer with an affinity for bread!
Munzo:The main character's guardian and friend, and long time friend of the Grandmother.
Lyon: A Deloraam assassin.
Galetea: A kitsune with a grumpy attitude.
Ravensworth: A disowned, knight from Cruga.

Grandmother: A Belourhin contract writer and grandmother of the main character. (pretty straight forward, right?)
Grandfather: A Belourhin contract writer an grandfather of the main character. However, he's missing and possibly dead after hunting Kridian.
Kridian: Originally a friend of the family, the main character's nemesis.
Aelous: One of Kridian's offspring, a well-to-do Crugan-looking man in the North.
The Pale Gemni: The two other offspring of the Kridian. They are a year a part in age but behave like twins.
Huan Guhuam: An old badger living in the North. 
The Moon: The daughter of the old badger. 

And lastly: 
Rapos: The Fox in the Suit; the Fox with the Flute.



Future Books:
I don't think the adventure's done yet, so I think it's fair to expect another book in the mini series!

That's all for now folks!