The Gathering Darkness (the Connor series) - Dirk B. (Page 5 of 57)

Also: The Unholy Trinity Saga

Rage of the Unholy Trinity

Much as I prefer Lords of the Earth and the Apocalypse Conspiracy, both titles are used in the US. I'll try Wrath of the Unholy Trinity for now. I always liked Wrath of Khan as a title, although mostly because Ricardo Montalban chewed the scenery.

My thanks to everyone for their suggestions.
Dirk

About this Series:

The above summary is primarily to help me plan/focus the story (along with a pending synopsis and outline). The above will appear on the back cover of the book, along with a paragraph like that below, specific to each book.

The above two paragraphs won't leave room for anything else on the back cover. Is that a problem? They seem like the most important things I could place there.

definitely the first one would get my vote. Much tighter and more over-arching, more mystery. I like it a lot.

Paragraph two lost me by word #7 (Don't accuse me up pulling punches!). Hopefully by the time you're ready to publish you've got that whittled down to awesome-sauce. Here's my rendition of line 1:

Indeed. There is a reference to the Pope among some others I spotted. Rome is implied. Once you say Pope, you've also implied Christian and Catholic.

Well-reasoned, Obi-Wan. Fortunately, I have 4-6 years to rewrite it twenty times. I finally like the title, though. :-)

V2 of the book summary. I shortened 'living in a Catholic orphanage in Rome' to 'an orphan in Rome', and used K's word order. I also trimmed elsewhere. Although not strictly required, I chose to keep Catholic in the summary, but moved it down. 'from the possessed' also isn't strictly required, although I prefer to keep it for now. I also decided to limit the dying to bishops and cardinals, no priests. The Antichrist would be after the Vatican leadership. Although 'Council of Cardinal Advisers' is a mouthful, I chose to use the Council as the proxy for the Pope. The Pope is ailing, so the head cardinal (the Secretary of State) will serve as my main Vatican leader. Connor will meet the Pope at the end of the book.

The two paragraphs take up 2/3 of a well-spaced Word page, so that should easily fit the back of a book cover.

My thanks to K.

Is Thecla going to be in it?

I watched a long YouTube video yesterday about Jesus, and I made notes on paper as it played. Halfway through I got bored, so I paused it. That's when I saw another tab in my browser with the same video, paused at almost the exact same spot. I checked my notes file and, sure enough, I had made virtually the exact same notes.

Another video was about the finding of a tomb that some argue contained Jesus and his family. There are bone boxes inside for a man named Jesus (son of Joseph), James and Joses (brothers of Jesus according to the Bible), one or two Marys (there's some confusion about the inscriptions), and a son of Jesus. The argument was that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and they had a son, which would have been the norm for men of Jesus's age (most or all of the apostles were married). It turns out, though, that Jesus and Joseph were two of the most common names in that period, making up almost ten percent of Jewish males. Probability analysis suggested that it was still very possible to find all those names in a tomb without them being Christ's family.

Thanks, Christine. I think Requiem for Heaven and Earth is a highbrow title, and it remains a potential choice. I settled on Unholy Lords and decided not to touch it again until I have something written. The story won't change because of the title, but the title may change depending on how I feel about the story once it's written. My favorites (e.g., The Unholy Trinity) are all taken on Amazon, usually more than once.

Welcome to my thread. :-)