By Owen Quinn author of the Time Warriors and Zombie Blues
Here’s a quick guide to the stories in The Time Warriors Book Red Water.
HOMECOMING:
When Jacke’s grandmother dies, each of the Time Warriors return home to catch up with their loved ones. Varran questions his own being leading him to a chance meeting. Tyran meets her brother’s new girlfriend and Jacke rethinks her mission. But there is a viper in the nest right under their noses using their most treasured loved ones against them.
This story was designed to be a quieter moment in between the madness that came before and the finale Tempest when the Family make their move. It was a chance to introduce the families before Tempest. Several key characters are introduced especially the members of Tyran’s family. Robert, her elder brother and his pregnant girlfriend Sharon will play pivotal roles in the future, I wanted people to want to spend time with Tyran’s parents. Having that emotional connection is important to establish as it helps the reader identify with the characters.
It also gives Michael and his Nan, Maisie, a chance to catch up where he has to tell her some news. Whereas we get to eplore the connection between the Baker women through Jacke’s grief. Her gran’s death brings a lot of self doubt to the surface for Jacke which ahe has to figure out if she is to stay with the Time Warriors.
RED WATER:
When a man is allegedly murdered by Bigfoot in the town of Red Water, part of Varran’s past is revealed when we meet the Native American tribe he has deep connections with. Stripped of all tecnology they journey deep into the forests in order to stop an incursion from a war that took place before time began.
I love the legends of Sasquatch and it was always my intention from the beginning to introduce Bigfoot to the Time Warriors universe. So here we go.
I always like to put in elements of Varran’s past where I can and sometimes in real life you discover legends that can fit right in to your story. This was no exception when I read about the story of Jacko. He was a oung Bigfoot captured by loggers and sold to a travelling carnival. He dosappeared from the train carrying him never to be seen again. How could I resist? I also wanted to keep the lost history elements and eplore what the Sasquatch really are and what are the different crypto monsters people see in the forests. If you look at the world you can weave things together to hopefully come up with an entertaining story.
SUMMER’S END:
It’s Jacke’s birthday and the Warriors travel back to ancient Ireland to see e how Halloween was celebrated in ancient times by the Celts. However they stumble across an ancient battle that has taken place for years. What is the Shield of Scathach? What secrets do the Druids guard and why is Jacke destined to be part of their numbers? But the veil between worlds is about to fall and when it does, the demon will come, demons that the Time Warriors have fought before.
This is one of my favourites to write and again you can take elements of myth and legend, in this case Irish, and weave them together. I then took an old villain from the Time Warriors past and inserted them into the story.
Yes, the Mentara, our deuendly neighbourhood flesh eating arachnids are back.
Putting them into the Halloween myth worked seamlessly and it was nice to explain what bonfires were originally designed for among other things. This is the one I would love to see filmed because there are so many opportunities here for cinametic visuals. The characters feel more comfortable together and mesh brilliantly. Summer’s End will have far reaching consequences for the Warriors due to Varran’s actions which don’t go down well with the others.
As always, time will tell…
MELTDOWN:
After returing from a planet where they witnessed the destruction of a research facility where everyone murdered each other, the Warriors begin to behave differently. Who is the Mirror Man torturing Varran? Why has Michael become so aggressive and Tyran murderous? Jacke’s mind is being torn in half. To save the day, Varran decides the best thing would be to change everything and travel back to prevent the destruction of Xereba.
It is always nice to remind the readers that there are alien vistas out there and not always pleasant ones. The sight of mass murder frenzy should impact our characters appropriately.
Exploration of our character’s inner thoughts and putting them in a different mindset from the ones we are used to also allows us to see different sides of their personalities including their darker sides.
Varran unintentionally became the focus of this story as it’s a chance to look at his innermost feelings on his guilt over his homeworld’s destruction.
I hope you enjo them and get your copy on Amazon today!
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