Saturday 19 March 2016

Weekend Writing Warriors - 20/3/2016

This is my first appearance on Weekend Writing Warriors - so welcome all, and enjoy the snippet below!


If you've not encountered Weekend Writing Warriors, it's an opportunity for writers from a range of genres to showcase their work. Find the others here.
So with no more ado - the first nine lines from my novel Impcatcher.



    A high-pitched, manic giggle cut through the velvet blackness of the wine cellar as the echo of breaking glass faded. I took a deep breath, and the alcoholic fumes from the shattered bottle left me feeling light-headed for a moment. I had dropped the lamp when I dodged the missile. Doing this job, there's no way I'd use a modern bound-imp lamp, so I'm stuck with an oil lantern. The glass had not survived the accident, and now the old stone chamber was stygian. 
    A slight clacking sound to my left, like a big rat in tap shoes, hinted at my quarry’s location. It was trusting to the darkness and my lowly human eyes to conceal it. I glowered into the gloom. This had been supposed to be an easy job.



Impcatcher is a fantasy novel set in the town of Freebridge. When mages make mistakes, imps and elementals escape and make trouble. The Impcatcher of the title, Tal Djandiss, has the job of dealing with the little horrors. The novel opens with him facing just one such imp...

To find out how he does, and to learn the more worrying plot he becomes entangled with, get the book on Amazon here, or in other epub forms on Lulu, here.

As always, comments are welcome!

10 comments:

  1. Hi Peter. Good to see you here, and I love the creepy fun start to Impcatcher.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks! And thanks for inviting me to join in.

      Delete
  2. Welcome to WeWriWa, we're glad you found us :-) This is a great excerpt, and I especially like the "rat in tap shoes" phrase! These are some interesting characters stuck in an interesting problem. I wonder what kind of trouble these imps normally cause? Thanks for sharing your story with us.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thank you - you're being very welcoming! As to the trouble imps cause - they are pests and stroppy, but usually it's people who are the most dangerous characters around...

      Delete
  3. Hi Peter - welcome to the fray. I liked your snippet, especially the line, "like a big rat in tap shoes..." Awesome description.
    So much for easy jobs, right?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks, Paula! Imps are never easy - they're naturally troublesome! That's why Freebridge needs an impcatcher.

      Delete
  4. Always enjoy the snippets here...glad you were able to find your way to the WWW site (although it took me a bit to find your link on the list :-) ). I also need to remember and snag a copy on my Kindle.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Intriguing opening that leaves plenty of questions;).

    ReplyDelete
  6. I like your writing voice. Wonderful opening. I am intrigued.

    Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors! We're glad you're giving it a go. :-)

    ReplyDelete
  7. In the "Stygian gloom, hard to tell who's predator and who's prey. Very compelling writing.

    ReplyDelete