• Episode 1: D. T. Kane’s Epic Fantasy Book Club, The Acktus Trials, Prologue

  • Jan 28 2022
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  • The inaugural episode of D. T. Kane’s Epic Fantasy Book Club! Each week, he reads from one of his novels and discusses that episode’s reading with his listeners. It’s like a book club, except he does all the work for you! www.dtkane.com Purchase The Acktus Trials: https://dtkane.com/books/the-acktus-trials/ Map of Oration: https://dtkane.com/resources/map-of-oration/ *Below is not a transcription, but a copy of my script/notes. I do not read it verbatim during the episode. Intro Hello, I’m D. T. Kane and welcome to my Epic Fantasy Book Club. Today is January 17, 2022. We’ll usually start the podcast by jumping right into wherever we left off reading last week, but since this is the first episode, I thought a bit of an introduction made sense. I’m an epic fantasy author with two series in progress, the Spoken Books Uprising and The Agarsfar Saga. Now, don’t get me wrong. Selling books is great, but I want to get my stories into as many ears as possible. So I figured why not start a podcast and share my stories with anyone interested in listening. Each week my plan is to read one or more chapters from novels that I’ve written and then discuss them with all of you. Think of it sort of like a book club, except you don’t have to do any of the reading or even participate in discussion if you don’t want to. I’ll do all the work for you—you just need to tune in each week and listen! So if you’re an introvert like me and have always liked the idea of a book club, but getting together with a group of people you hardly know and talking isn’t your idea of a good time, maybe this will be more your speed! I plan to give you weekly updates about my current works in process and life in general so we can get to know each other a bit better, so I’ll only give a brief personal introduction now. I’m a lifelong fantasy reader who only recently came to grips with the fact that I’d rather pursue my dream of being a writer than work a corporate day job for the rest of my life. I’ve released two full-length novels as of this recording, with several more on the way this year. I love reading and listening to and dissecting fantasy stories and I hope to get into some great discussions with all of you in the weeks, months, and hopefully years to come. Each week I’ll give some suggested questions for everyone to consider for next week’s episode, and I also strongly encourage listener questions. I’ll also be giving listeners a mini quest to complete at the end of each episode, so make sure to stay tuned through the end for that! Alright, enough introduction. Let’s get into the fiction. Today and for the next, oh, 20 or so weeks, we’ll be reading the first novel in my series, the Spoken Books Uprising, which is called the Acktus Trial. Here’s the back cover blurb: [read back matter of novel] Alright, let’s get into the actual reading now. For those on YouTube, I’ll put a map of Oration up on the screen and show notes, or you can visit dtkane.com/resources. See you on the other side to discuss what we’ve read. As Deckard Cane once said, “Stay a while and listen.” [Read Prologue of The Acktus Trials] Discussion of Prologue Alright, a lot to unpack here in the prologue. Obviously at this early stage we’re going to have a lot more questions than answers. I’ll try to keep spoilers to a minimum and when I do give a spoiler, I’ll at least try to imply it, rather than simply give something away, but I don’t think it’s really possible for me to have an interesting discussion with you while keeping all my cards entirely face down. I’m sure I’ll be playing around with the format of our discussions, so feel free to send me suggestions on what you like, what you don’t, and what you think I should try. First Sentence Let’s start right with the first sentence (re-read). Lots of info packed in here. We’re in the tower of a Great Library—that’s capitalized, so it must be important, right? And some terrible spell has blown its roof clear off, and apparently our narrator feels that spell is going to have long-lasting ramifications for Oration, which the first sentence tells us is our setting. The land of Oration. How’d I do with that first sentence? Gripping enough? I’d love to hear your thoughts, either in the comments on YouTube or shoot me an email, dtkane@dtkane.com. Names So from the first sentence, we quickly move on to meet the prologue’s perspective character, and he’s got quite the name, or series of names I guess is more accurate. Pront vi Lextor, Librarian of Tome, Prefect of Saltz, Keeper of the Inks, Protector of the Sheafs. Now, at least one of my readers has asked me where I get the ideas for the names in my novels. Well, how about I answer that with a story? I’m a novelist, after all! Now, as of this recording, we’re just about a month removed from the Christmas season here in the US, and when I was home with my parents we watched The Man Who ...
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