[Chapter 1 Part I]
The multiverse witnessed a plethora of refugees.
After the Exomoon bombs hit the city of Hollandus Landing, Wisconsin, several souls were thrust across so many dimensions, planets, and other locations far away from the Earth.
Some of these souls were transported to one such world that was lightyears away from their own home world.
It would be none other than the peculiar world of Planet Chromatica.
While it could inhabit human life and had a similar amount of water, but there were some noticeable differences than Earth.
[Chapter 2 Part II]
Planet Chromatica is a world that had several castles and palaces across several countries. However, this wasn’t like some pseudo-medieval fantasy story from some half-wit authors. The environment was far more technological. There were hovering vehicles instead of wagons or horse carriages. There were telecommunication devices that certainly beat telegrams or snail mail. There were weapons infused with both enchanted energies alongside technology when they work. However, there was one aspect that certainly wasn’t there on Earth. As the cliche would go, there be dragons.
[Chapter 3 Part III]
Yes, there were those otherwise mythical reptiles having a presence in Planet Chromatica. They were influencers in numerous kingdoms and had connections with various humans. Some assisted humans with nefarious reasons such as usurping kingdoms or committing crimes. There were others less common that wanted to enhance some people with some abilities in this magic/technology hybrid world. These individuals (humans and dragons alike) certainly would play a role in this tale in the multiverse. They would be Antia and Distira.
[Chapter 4 Part IV]
Antia Azarola was fawned over by so many men across the planet. The affection added to those vainglorious pretensions in her dimension filled with tiaras and mirrors. She was a princess where anything she said went. Not to mention she had her own personal golden dragon to assist her with some firepower if she needed it. Distira was a dragon who was a guardian of one of the villages. She blessed a long line of heroines known as dragon princesses who were able to help defend the land. Unfortunately, the last one in that lineage was offed in the line of duty and her realm was under threat from these other kingdoms. There would be three souls to enter into that realm though.
[Chapter 5 Part V]
Three people who’s hometowns were outside of Hollandus Landing, let alone the state of Wisconsin had a connection to the Heaven of the Midwest because of one common denominator. All three of them were college students at the reputable Leyden Avalon University. Yes, the same location where the Ghastly Graduation happened prior to the Exomoon attack was the catalyst for three particular people who were transported together when the bombs did strike. There was a multi-sport athlete from Portage, Indiana by the name of Taylor Garver. There was a media studies major and videographer from St. John, New Brunswick, Canada named Earl McRae. Finally, there was a theatre major and actress from Topeka, Kansas named Darina Thornley-Foster.
Feel free to order Planet Chromatica for 99 cents here.
This isn’t a format I’m familiar with. You haven’t made it into an ebook?
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It is an ebok already. This and other books in the Hollanduscosm (the series revolving around my book Hollandus Landing) are all cell phone novels. This format involves chapters that are 70-200 words each as they add to a much larger story. It’s been a trend in Asia for over a decade, but it’s becoming a niche in America. Here’s a link to Planet Chromatica: https://books2read.com/b/3Jy8PE.
I would strongly recommend reading Hollandus Landing first which you can get at your own price including free on NoiseTrade: https://books.noisetrade.com/cmbbell/hollandus-landing
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I don’t have any of those (apple, kobo etc). Don’t use my phone for anything but phoning. Have you had any feedback? I’ve never seen anything with such short chapters.
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I see. I’ve had some feedback from some of my friends who bought my books. One friend of mine who’s also a writer and blogger liked Hollandus Landing (the one on NoiseTrade) and told me how original the concept was while liking some of the characters.
Cell phone novels can certainly be worth getting used to. I had to get used to it when I read them and when I started writing them. It was fun posting the chapters on the blog when I serialized Hollandus Landing and Gateway to the Empyrean or when I used the Talehunt app (it’s like Twitter for microfiction) to serialize Telestic Estoc and Revezia: Sika Uvira Chronicle.
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Reading in tiny snippets doesn’t appeal to me. I like to have something that will grip me for hours. It’s a question of what you’re used to. Reading on the phone is something that would never occur to me. I hate the thing.
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Fair enough. You don’t have to read a cell phone novel on a cell phone since I compiled them into full ebooks now. Besides that, I have plenty of traditional novels, novellas, and novelettes around like the Revezia series, Piteraq Dusk, or Sylvain: Serpent King to name a few.
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How long have you been writing? That’s a pretty impressive output!
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Fiction? I wrote my first novel 5 years ago, but I didn’t publish all of these books until last year when I wrote consistently since then.
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I’m impressed!
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Thank you very much! It’s been a great creative journey writing my own stories and characters. Granted, I’m still small potatoes even in the indie author world, but I’m happy that I was able to do something by making stories I’ve never seen before while also making the stories I want to write.
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Stick with it. I’m betting this is the way fiction writing will go as people read on their phones wherever they are rather than waiting to get comfortable with a book.
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Thanks, Jane. I certainly will continue writing cell phone novels like the Hollanduscosm series will be written exclusively in that format, but I’m not going to stop writing the traditional way with regular novels as well.
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I hope you will. You have an obvious urge to write and the more you write the better you’ll get. I’ve been writing for about fifteen years now and I’m just beginning to be satisfied with what I produce. Satisfied in that I’m getting to be about as good as my ability extends. I know I’ll never be as good as the best but I want to draw out as much as there is.
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Sure thing. That’s true about writing. I do that with stories and other forms of writings. Keep up what you’re doing. Besides your blog and your writings on there, do you have a place where you have published books available?
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Apart from the novels, just Amazon kindle. I took them all down except for two volumes of short stories.
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Okay. I was just wondering. Thank you!
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When I get that six figure advance I’ll let you know 🙂
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Sure. That would be nice and it would be amazing if that happened to us indie authors. Hahaha!
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Well it won’t, that’s for sure.
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Yup. That’s the realism of being an indie author, right? Haha! 😛
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I’m afraid it is. Oh well, at least we can call ourselves true uncompromised artists 🙂
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That’s quite true. Integrity is a dying piece of ethos.
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Rare.
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Yeah, seriously. I wish it were one of the standards for human decency.
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Dream on.
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Yup. It’s not feasible no matter how much we try. I’ll just appreciate it whenever I do meet with someone with that quality.
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I’ve ‘met’ more people I would really like to know ‘for real’ through blogging than I have in real life. Maybe because when you start to say what you really think, the people who disagree just drift away, and you’re left with like-minded, creative people. Another reason not to shy away from honesty. That’s probably why so many people moan about their friends—they’ve never dared admit to not agreeing with them.
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Come to think of it, I’ve felt the same way about some bloggers I follow on here. Just by sharing opinions and thoughts about various subjects allowed me to do that. Some of those people have supported my works more than people I know in real life. Blogging has certainly allowed me to be more assertive online and offline. I feel like my honesty is appreciated on here a lot more even when I disagree (civilly, of course) with people.
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Blogging sorts out the kind of people whose ideas we get along with. Often it’s in the comments section more than in the blog posts. People who open up and agree are saying, hello! I think like you do. It’s encouraging.
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Oh, I certainly agree especially with the comments section on different posts. It certainly can be encouraging. I know there are times where there are minor disagreements here and there, but things so far have been fine. There are times where I learn from others and times where I’ve taught others depending on the post.
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There are bound to be disagreements if what we post has any passion in it. But as long as we stick to facts that can be corroborated and don’t try to be offensive, anyone who takes offence is out of order and probably looking for a fight.
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Definitely and I do my best to have facts or at the very least bring credence to my opinions if it’s a more subjective matter. I’ve noticed that with real life interactions with people being offended with what I say trying to start a fight.
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You’ll always get those people. The internet breeds them.
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That’s all too true about the internet.
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It is a great liberator in some ways, and in others it’s just speeded up rumour mongering.
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The internet is a dual edged sword, but it’s not used for good enough.
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It could have such a great impact, really telling things as they are. Instead so much is fake and people who nothing about it stick on captions that completely distort the reality.
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Of course. I’m glad there are people telling the truth which is something I really appreciate, but there is so much artifice and superficiality online.
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There is everywhere.
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Yes, and it affects real life as well.
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True
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Yes. I do hope that I can break the artifice on those situations even through I write fictional stories.
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Fiction should be just fact that happened to someone you didn’t actually know 🙂
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That is a really deep quote, Jane.
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I think even fantasy has to be realistic.
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Okay. I can see that. Even though I tend to use things like magic, superpowers, or some locales that wouldn’t exist on earth in most of my fantasy projects, I do try to ground it in reality or at the very least have a sense of logic for why things are that way.
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That’s what I mean really. It has to be believable, natural, like the characters. That pointing a magic wand at something and saying magic words doesn’t do it for me. I want to know, why?
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Yes, and I agree with that, too. Having a magic wand in itself wouldn’t be bad, but if magic is used, it would be better if there were limitations to ground everything. Like using a spell for a limited amount of times, having magic energy be limited like a battery charge, or having some kind of attachment to something negative or a punishment mechanism involved.
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It’s a difficult one to pull off. I’m all for suggestion and blurring of realities but far less won over by the point a wand at it, say a magic word and puff! the mountain crumbles into dust or a herd of cows turns into dragons. It’s too definite and obviously defying all the laws of physics.
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Good call and it is difficult when it comes to magic. I can see why people are into “magical realism” that involves limitations to whatever spells or powers are available should that concept be involved in a story.
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Yes, what I like about magical realism is that magic is just a natural thing that happens. It doesn’t have to be explained and people take it for granted.
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Same here. It does work as a world-building effect in a fantasy context.
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Garcia Marquez did it best in One Hundred Years of Solitude. Not sure anyone else has done it as effortlessly.
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I haven’t read that book, but that’s good to know.
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It’s the first and greatest magical realist novel of all.
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First one, eh? I think you might have given me an inkling to read it since I tend to be intrigued by originators in their artistic fields.
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You have to read it anyway. It’s one of the modern classics.
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Okay. I’ll check it out whenever I have some free time.
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🙂
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