About The Characters Meet The Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series — Meet Jad
USA
The About The Characters post series focuses on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series, in large part because:
“I think it’s the presence of the smaller characters that “makes” a story, creating texture around the main points of view.”
~ from my Legend Award Finalist's Interview, 2013
Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from The Heir of Night, but now I’m continuing on with minor characters from both The Gathering Of The Lost and Daughter of Blood — in alphabetical order, of course!
(The quotes, together with the covers, indicate the books in which the character appears.)
—
UK/AU/NZ
Jad: an eight-leader in the Earl of Blood’s Honor Guard
Alert for danger, Kalan paused before stepping through the unlit door into what Jad had called a mausoleum. “Although it’s more of a memorial,” the eight-leader explained…A sequence of faded banners hung to their right, facing the bas-relief of a young, stern-faced warrior in full Blood panoply.
“Ammaran,” Kalan said, reading the inscription beneath the warrior’s mailed feet.
Jad nodded. “He was the last Heir of the old line of Earls. The family died out shortly after the Betrayal War, when he and his Honor Guard escort were lost.”
~ from © The Gathering Of The Lost, The Wall of Night Book Three: Chapter 29 — Risk
Have had a search of your site and can’t seem to find the info any where so I thought I would just ask. What year is the next book in The Wall of Night series probably going to be published in? Thanks
Hi Jamie — the reason you can’t find it is because there won’t be a publication date until I finish the manuscript. I’ll be doing another update on that soon, but suffice it to say that it’s taken far longer than I ever anticipated and certainly than I wanted, due to a number of Big Life Events. However, I am still writing and although it’s not the end yet, and there’s still a ways to go, I can now “see” the end ahead. So I apologise most profoundly for the delay, which as a keen reader myself I “get” is as frustrating for readers as it is for me (and it is very frustrating for me), but can only assure you that I am not only still writing but dedicated to finishing and getting the book to readers.