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In suffering an insatiable desire to try my hand at superhero prose, I entertained the concept of innate powers versus earned magic for quite a while as the story and world took shape. We've tread the ground of 'what would it be like if superheroes came about in the real world' plenty of times, and I wanted to try something different. Peter Cline covered supers in the zombocalypse quite nicely, and many many authors are currently delving into superhero litrpgs.
What I had not yet seen was a world where people recognizable as supers, with power levels ranging from X-men to Superman, rose to foil not a world of mundanity, but one saturated by magic.
This was very much a case of building the world first and characters second, and I think that shows in a sense that this first installment of Hero Planet could have taken place in any city, with any hero as its protag. This I think is an element that Coming to Power and How Black the Sky do not possess.
Interestingly, I have far less anxiety about producing a quality sequel to this book than I do about the others... I think this is part of the reason why.
Our main hero, Jack, was a pleasure to write, as I seem to enjoy painting my characters' responses to pain as vividly as I know how... and Jack can take more than either Jon or Pierce. Honestly he's probably only rivaled by the skeleton man Agrathor in this department.
I can't tell you how many times I made my own stomach growl describing whatever Jack was eating to kickstart his healing factor... Just thinking about it makes me crave sushi and gyros.
If you know me by now, you know that saying I'm excited to continue writing in this world is about as novel as someone saying they like donuts or cherry pie, but I'll say it anyway.
I'm so excited to keep writing in this world!
So read free on KU, or grab it at a very reasonable price, leave a review, and I'll see you on the magical hero planet Ellio!
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