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November 11, 2015 by 14 Comments News
Today, I’m excited to share with you a sneak peek of my aviation-adventure novel Storming. Scroll down to read the first chapter (click the little square in the bottom right corner to get a bigger view). If you like what you read, be sure to stop by again for Launch Day on December 4th!
While you’re waiting for Chapter 2, you can check out the actors I would “cast” if Storming were a movie.
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About K.M. Weiland | @KMWeilandK.M. Weiland is the award-winning and internationally-published author of the acclaimed writing guides Outlining Your Novel, Structuring Your Novel, and Creating Character Arcs. A native of western Nebraska, she writes historical and fantasy novels and mentors authors on her award-winning website Helping Writers Become Authors.
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The beginning is really amazing. Promising a great book ahead, can’t wait. 😀
Thanks! I had a ton of fun with it. 🙂
So exciting! I love to cast my characters, too. Something about being able to picture an actor helps me in developing them.
Definitely. And sometimes I’ll go through multiple casts while writing, when I’m wanting to emphasize different parts of a character’s personality.
A great start to a thrilling adventure! 🙂
Beginnings are usually challenging, but this was fun right from the first sentence.
This is definitely looking interesting.
Thanks! 🙂
Fun, wonderful first chapter. My uncle would’ve loved this pilot story. He had his pilot’s license and flew bi-wing, open cockpit planes.
Looks like a story full of fun and highflying escapades….. and I’m sure fun events on the ground.
Aw, how cool. Those old open-cockpit biplanes were the best.
This is going to be great!
Thanks! I hope people have as much reading it as I did writing it. 🙂
An intriguing opening chapter.
This, and your character descriptions put me in mind of ‘Firefly’ – Hitch sounds like a loveable rogue with a heart of gold much like Mal, so of course my initial ‘casting’ image was Nathan Fillion. “He really is ruggedly handsome, isn’t he?”
I also felt it reminiscent of the ‘Ketty Jay’ stories by Chris Wooding. I love those steampunk stories, and his Captain Frey is again the kind of ‘bad boy’ that you can’t help cheering on.
I definitely want to read more.
Hey, I’ll take any and all Firefly comparisons and run with them. 😉 There are no spaceships (for better or worse), but I hope it has a little of that humorous/adventurous vibe of Firefly.