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NovaForge -- What's in a name? - Shaun Dune, a post by Scott J. Toney

4/27/2014

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With the approaching release of my Sci-Fi novel, NovaForge, I’ve recently been editing, re-editing, hashing and re-hashing over word after word in the document. I’ve been asking for opinions, taking some really good advice and getting extremely excited for the release.

And as I examine each word with a fine-toothed comb I’ve been thinking of all the memories for me within the work. That’s what’s so fantastic for an author. Each character’s name has a story behind it that you may never know as a reader. Sometimes a character will experience things just because that author was experiencing something similar that sparked that idea or a character will have an emotion because of what went on in the author’s life. When you read a book you enjoy a fantastic story that transports you in to an incredible new realm or experience. But as the author we revisit a realm we created and remember all these experiences that helped shape what we wrote in the book.

As we near the release I thought I’d share one of these. There’s a character in NovaForge who has the ability to morph from human to dragon form. When he is in human form he burns a brilliant light. The man’s name is Shaun Dune. So how did the name come about? For a few weeks my daughter kept saying that her ‘invisible friend’ son’s name was Shaun Dune, and as I listened to that name day after day I thought, Hey, that’s a really cool name. And so I stole it. My daughter has officially named her first book character and every time I read the name I’ll be reminded of that and that fun experience with her.

Look for NovaForge when it releases on Amazon.com and Smashwords.com Saturday May 3rd! It will be at Barnes&Noble.com shortly after that.

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Solaris. A planet like any other, rife with wars, science and love. But at the peak of its civilization, a great meteor fell, bringing long-dead souls to Solaris, souls that had been sustained by the life-force of one lone man, Ineal.

At the moment of impact, these souls scattered across Solaris, giving inhuman abilities to mortals while scarring their bodies and corrupting their lives.

Samuel was one such man, a man of faith who thought to use his powers to worship his God: he watched his followers, and his planet, die. Seas turned to lava and the skies darkened. And as Samuel’s heart grew weary and angry, he used his powers to manipulate the world to serve him alone.

Samuel became god of a planet whose only life was the symbiotic life so like his own.

Centuries later, he discovered others, threats that had not been on this planet before. A winged woman; a cyborg; a future-seer and a child. A great vengeance burned a comradery between them.

They were souls that could overthrow him. Souls that he would need to destroy.


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