• Episode 2: D. T. Kane’s Epic Fantasy Book Club, The Acktus Trials, Chapters 1 and 2

  • Jan 28 2022
  • Duración: 1 h y 26 m
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Episode 2: D. T. Kane’s Epic Fantasy Book Club, The Acktus Trials, Chapters 1 and 2

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  • D. T. Kane reads chapters 1 and 2 from his epic fantasy fiction novel, The Acktus Trials, and discusses the chapters with his audience. http://dtkane.com Purchase The Acktus Trials: https://dtkane.com/books/the-acktus-trials/ Map of Oration: https://dtkane.com/resources/map-of-oration/ Below are my notes/script for the episode, not a verbatim transcription. Welcome back to D. T. Kane’s epic fantasy book club. Today is January 22, 2022 as I record this. Hopefully you’re as eager as I am to discuss the two chapters we just read. I’ve got some great listener questions to go over as well, so let’s hop right in. Personal Update Before we get to the book, just a quick personal update. By the time this episode airs, The Acktus Trials, the novel we’re reading together right now, is available for purchase at most online retailers where you find books, both as an e-book and physical copy, so if you can’t wait for the next 20 or so episodes and need to find out what happens now, or you just want a copy so you can follow along with the podcast, you can get yourself one. As far as my current projects go, Part II of the Spoken Books Uprising is with my editor now, and I expect that to release by the end of March. More details to come on that, so stay tuned. I’ve also just finished my first round of edits on Part III. From there, my process is to print the whole thing out and do a round of edits with a red pen, then enter all those into the computer. Once that’s done, it goes to my editor. If everything says on schedule, Part III should release around midyear, so lots more reading for your enjoyment coming soon. For those interested, Part II is called Declaimer’s Discovery and Part III is called Declaimer’s Flight. And just full disclosure for those of you who are completionists out there, Part III is not the final part. I always try to tell a complete story in each of my books, but the larger story definitely goes on past Part III. ANALYSIS CH. 1 Tax and Baz Alright, let’s jump into our discussion of chapters 1 and 2. And if you have any suggestions for how I can structure our discussions differently in future weeks, definitely send them to me, dtkane@dtkane.com. I have a bunch of notes written down, organized into loose categories–I’m sure if you’re watching on YouTube that you’ll see me glancing off camera at them frequently. But really, I’m just waxing poetic about my own writing here, so I’m definitely happy to hear any suggestions from all of you out there listening. So last week I told you to specifically keep an eye on what the older brother—Yeltax or Tax for short—is teaching his younger brother—Baztian, or Baz for short. A World Where Reading is a Super PowerNow, right off the bat, we have a rather odd admonition–“Reading Books can get you killed.” I know this technically isn’t the first line of the book, since we had a prologue, but it’s the first line of chapter 1, so it’s sort of the first line of the book. I try not to put too much stock in opening lines, but many folks are so obsessed with that flashy opening line it’s hard for me to completely disregard it. I like to think this is a pretty provocative one, and it really speaks to my concept for this novel and really the whole series.This gets us into our first listener question. Linda from New York writes: “D. T., what was your inspiration for the Spoken Books Uprising?” My original inspiration for the Spoken Books Uprising was the idea, “hey, what if reading books was a super power?” And that’s sort of what I’ve done here, right? I mean, it’s not a super hero book, but basically if you can Read, you are a bad ass in this world. It’s the only way to cast magic. I mean, as a lifelong reader and general obsessionist over books, how freaking cool is that? Most people think you’re a nerd if you like reading. Not in Oration–you’re the coolest kid in school!Of course, as neat as that concept is, I couldn’t leave it at that. I needed to complicate matters, because ultimately that’s what stories are. A whole bunch of obstacles between your characters and what they want. So, I thought to myself, “How could I twist this idea of reading as a super power. Ah, what if only certain people can unlock the power of the magic books?” Ok, interesting, so you have a potential upper class of folks who can read, while all the normal people can’t cast magic. Alright, but that’s how many stories with magic are. Not everyone can cast it. Let’s add another layer–not everyone can cast magic from the books, and those who can are enslaved and never taught to read. Oooohhh. Now we’ve got something. You can see a whole culture forming out of that single idea, and it also evokes some pretty strong emotions. These people are born with such an awesome power, but they’re downtrodden and never given a chance to exercise it? OK, there’s a story . In fact, I think there’s a whole bunch ...
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