Akomachi's Children started out as this simple little musing of what would happen if a Japanese fox spirit, a kitsune, got sucked into having to confront a European vampire. What has spawned from that simple idea is something far greater than I had planned.
I started writing what I now call the third book first. And then as I worked out the backgrounds and characters, their stories begged to be told more fully. Which lead to me deciding to try and tackle, the fool hardy for a tyro novice writer, writing a trilogy. Not because it seems the rage now but due to these characters wanting their story more fully told.
So now the first book recounts how a certain young, youth being relative to kitsune, came to be where she has to deal with the vampire. The second book will tell the story of a Scottish lad who thought he was besotted by a beauty and instead he becomes a vampire and outcast, wandering the world. And of course the penultimate third book where kitsune and vampire cross paths.
Kitsune's Honor is the title of the first book. It was my project for the 2013 National Novel Writing Month, 50,000 words in 30 days. To which I did reach that milestone and then some. So all that is left, - insert laughter -, is to go through it for polishing, expanding, and tweaking. Before I find a good editor who will probably hand back to me a bleeding wreck of a story with commands to fix it.
Akomachi's Children now becomes the title to cover these three books. And who knows if the muse or Akomachi herself is pleased there might be more stories.
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