Authorpreneur Dashboard – Randy Blackwell
Rise of the Magi
Science Fiction & Fantasy
An epic battle looms as Omar, Myles, and Kasey train a new breed of Magi for war! Omar Metzger, earth's most brilliant scientist, is in a race against time to find his sister in another dimension before she dies in a coma. He has one week before his funding is cut so without hesitation he enters a portal to an unknown world to prove his findings and hopefully save his sister. Myles Callaghan, an illusionist con-artist, has bitten off more than he can chew, swindling a Mafia Don out of several million dollars. On the run, Myles goes much further than he could have imagined. He encounters Omar on Musterion, and they form the Order of the Magi. Kasey is a hired assassin with orders to assassinate the Israeli Prime Minister. Betrayed, Kasey must escape before she is captured. As she crosses an archway in the Prime Minister's basement she realizes she has crossed much more than the threshold of a door--rather a portal. As these three unlikely companions join forces on Musterion, they must find their way through an ever changing maze, fight their inner demons, and then escape to a new world, Soterion, before the forces of evil close in on them. Rise of the Magi is filled with battle action, steampunk fantasy, and a touch of romance, It's an epic tale of their search for truth and ultimately redemption. Book One in the Forgotten Portals Trilogy. FICTION / Christian / Fantasy
Book Bubbles from Rise of the Magi
Misaki
Omar was a hard character to write because he is very little like me. He is a cold calculating scientist and in the first draft his sister Misaki didnt even exist. But as I read this novel to my wife she asked me why she was suposed to care about Omar. I explored possible options of how to add some warmth and humanity to him. Then I thought of the coma patients he used in experiments. What if one of them was his sister? Then Omar's background started to form in my mind. A jewish orphin child prodigy adopted by a Japanese family who also had a child prodigy daughter. With the loss of his parents Omar decided to let her into his heart and through the years she had been the only one Omar had done that with. This made Omar more human but exclusively so.
