Happy Wednesday Scribblers, today is the last day of August and again I’m asking myself where did the month go? I hope you all had a wonderful August. I know there’s a lot happening, but I still hope you managed to enjoy yourselves. Today I’m excited to share with you all the current details I have about Mu; Legend of a Lost City. This new novel is the eighth full-length book I’ve written and I’m proud of not only how much my writing has improved, but how Mu; Legend of a Lost City turned out. This was a fun story to craft and holds a special place in my heart, as one of the characters is named after a dear friend of mine who passed away this last year. I hope I do the character justice and folks resonate with the story and the characters.
Mu; Legend of a Lost City is being published by Spectrum Books (find them here) and will launch on November 11th assuming there are no delays, which hopefully there won’t be.
Here is the blurb all about Mu; Legend of a Lost City:
For years, the whispers and legends of a lost city hiding in the Pacific Ocean were just that; legend. On the day Kaimi discovers his parents, the Queen and King of Mu, murdered, Mu’s most powerful weapon fired, sending a pulse rushing towards the North American west coast.
After the 2025 Great Pacific Pulse Event, or Pulse, vomited up much of humankind’s trash in the Pacific Ocean along the North American west coast. The mysterious occurrence causing the largest environmental disaster in human history, people are no longer certain there is nothing concealed in the depths of the ocean. Scientist Karen Linn and billionaire investor Michael Donovan want to find out what actually happened that day five years ago. Will Michael’s life in the adult entertainment industry and Karen’s moniker in pseudoscience keep them as social pariahs, or are they on the cusp of finding a civilization that has been kept out of our grasp, deep in the world’s largest ocean? How does the event from five years ago tie into the murder of the Queen and King of Mu? What lies under the sea may be bigger than anyone can imagine, and neither civilization may be ready for the truth.
And most importantly, here is the amazing cover for the book:
A little more about the story. With Mu; Legend of a Lost City, I wanted to write an adventure story about finding a long-lost world, but Atlantis has been done by so many authors and writers that I wanted to find a new location, one hopefully on the West Coast of North America, since I love to place all my novels in the San Francisco Bay Area (more specifically San Jose). I did quite a bit of research and learned about the legend of Mu (you can learn more here). From finding out about this lost place, I dug into the stories and tried to piece together what would work for my novel and what would make for an enjoyable read.
When it came to the main characters, I wanted to tell the story from three points of view, the first being a character from Mu itself, so that is where Kaimi Tupu came from. He is a Prince and finds his parents murdered, leaving him to become King, but all is not well in the kingdom. I wanted to respect the area of the world this city was located in so I drew from the Polynesian culture. This was a lot of fun to write about and since these people were not from any single civilization, I enjoyed making up my own society for them. I pulled bits and pieces from all over the Pacific Rim. As for Kaimi himself he wants to see the world and doesn’t understand why Mu has been hiding from the rest of the world, he loves his family and understands his duty, but has no interest in being the ruler of Mu. He’s a wonderful character and I hope people will enjoy learning more about him.
For the scientist I wanted to bring forward a person who didn’t care what people thought about her and who held true to her beliefs. The scientist is Karen Linn; she is brilliant if not a little odd and despite all that she has been through, continues to believe in her work and her abilities. Karen is special to me as this character was completely changed and written in honor of my wonderful friend Karen. The two share several of the same traits and bear a striking resemblance to each other, but with all my characters, this Karen is 100% her own person, and has her own goals and history. She’s a researcher but is still able to work a crowd to help her get what she wants. She may not always be truthful, but nothing she does is ever from malice. She’s also not afraid to speak her mind and stand up for what she believes in. She will fight hard for her beliefs and the people she loves. As with Kaimi, she was wonderful to write and I hope readers will relate to her and enjoy her story.
Lastly, there is my billionaire former Porn Star. Yep, you heard that right. Michael Donovan is a former adult entertainer who now is the CEO of a multibillion-dollar company. I wanted to have a character so different from anything that people would expect, that when the idea of having a billionaire former porn star flip the bill for the mission to Mu, I had to run with it. But, as with all my characters, there is more to Michael than meets the eye. He has the heart of a dreamer and has learned (the hard way) to not care what people think of him or how he made his money. That doesn’t stop him from wanting to do good in the world. However, people will gladly take his money, but they don’t want anything to do with him as a person. Which is a shame, because Michael is a man worth knowing and learning about. I hope readers will find him as interesting and as fun as I do.
We thought it was a legend. We were wrong. The truth behind the Pulse and the lost city of Mu may end us all.
Well, there you go, my introduction of Mu; Legend of a Lost City. As I mentioned, the novel will be out November 11th and there will be more information coming, but I hope my teaser got you excited to read more about Mu; Legend of a Lost City and the characters that inhabit my most recent novel. Until next time, have a great week.