I know few of you have read the first volume, and there's a valid reason for that which I will get to later. Forget about that for now and allow me to tell you how exciting it is to be back writing the sequel to my fantasy adventure Being Bardin, the first in the Bardin series of stories set atop Whirligig Ranch in the mountains of North Carolina.
As far as the first book goes - I am working at nights to get that ready for publication in paperback sometime this year. I'd feel really dirty publishing volume 1 without volume 2 ready to go - which is why I've returned to these four characters that won my heart last summer.
Without revealing too much, this second portion of the saga revists the main characters that we first met in volume one (Singer Bardin, Lady Buggargon, Teddy and Queen Mother Beulah). The action begins far in the past, thirty years prior to the adventures in Being Bardin. I wanted to show Bardin's kingdom when it was blossoming into the fairytale land we saw rusting away in the first novel, so when volume two starts - we're in WW2 Berlin. Fast forward dramatically to 1980's Vienna where the story follows two different people - a man who's struggling to find a job in his field during the economic dark days of Europe and a woman - who's hiding something behind her facade as a waitress.
As the adventure proceeds - we're introduced back to our magical foursome and whisked to North Carolina to witness the dawning of Bardin's mountain, just three years after his purchase - and on the opening day of Red Castle, the train line and ... well, that's enough for now.
For anyone interested - you can check out the first chapter of this saga as a bonus feature at the end of MATTROPOLIS (which is so good it hurts to talk about it, so I can't right now).
Feel free to check out Singer Bardin and Lady Buggargon on Facebook. They're not very good at using computers, but they do the best they can.
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