D. T. Kane’s Epic Fantasy Book Club, Declaimer’s Discovery Chapter 7-Episode 33 (2:06)

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D. T. Kane reads Chapter 7 his epic fantasy fiction novel, Declaimer’s Discovery, and discusses chapters 5-7 with his audience.

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Characters in this episode:

Baz: Our main character

Oges: Willyom Speaker Baz rescues

Munch: Oges’s little brother

Annel: Speaker who is skeptical of Baz

Lenz: Illit guard from Xavier Library

Episode Notes:

PERSONAL UPDATE

Welcome back to D. T. Kane’s Epic Fantasy Book Club. Today is Sunday, August 28, 2022 as I record this, Episode 6 of Season 2, and Episode 33 overall.

Well, last week I admitted lying to you all and that I was still doing edits on Declaimer’s Stand, Part 4 of the Spoken Books Uprising. Well, I’m now done! All I have left to do is wait for my editor to get me her edits and then it’s off to the presses! Start getting excited for release day, September 16.

As for future plans, I don’t think I’m going to have another book release this year. I might have the next one written before year’s end, but I’m not going to be able to line up my editor in time. Never to fear, though! That just means I’ll be able to release two books relatively quickly at the beginning of 2023, as I’ll just launch right into drafting Part 6 once I’ve completed Part 5 and am waiting for editing. Part 5 is actually a bit of a smaller story too, so it should be relatively quick to write. It’s a bit of a side quest if you will, but one with big implications for the overall story. Stay tuned for more!

Also, if you are absolutely craving some new fiction from me once you’ve ravenously devoured Part IV, Declaimer’s Stand, consider signing up for my Patreon. I’ll be releasing a connected series of short stories over there starting in a couple weeks, which is the beginning of September 2022 if you’re listening in the future. It’s pretty different from The Spoken Books Uprising. It’s called the Temporal Operations Militia Case Files, and is about two agents from an organization that goes around fixing anomalies in time to ensure history happens as it should. It’s got time travel, history, laser swords, and history. Oh, and these weird martial artists in red space suits. For just $3.99/month, you’ll get access to all these stories as I release them and also lots more, including copies of all my eBooks and a bonus monthly podcast episode, where I’ll be narrating these short stories and more! Join me today at www.patreon.com/dtkane.

ANALYSIS CHs. 5-7

Chapter 5

  • Baz headed to market
  • Not very confident in accomplishing Tessa’s “quest”
    • Doesn’t even exist
    • How can he ever hope to get into the Library?
  • Disturbance in the street
    • Reader abusing a Speaker
    • Lyton Xavier, the little prick
    • Speaker from Willyom
      • Side note about the names of the Libraries
    • Why Baz? Why can’t you ever just shut up?
    • The crowd is on the Speaker’s side?
  • Oges
  • Want to cause some trouble for the Readers?

Chapter 6

  • To Lower Erstwhile—very poor part of the city
  • Factories, where ink made
    • Process is dangerous
    • Crushed limbs in mill
    • Boiling ether
    • Injuries akin to those suffered by slaves processing sugar cane
  • “Fear is a great indicator you’re walking into something you’ll regret, and I have more than enough regrets already.”
  • Underground hideout
    • Munch
    • Little Brother
    • The Password
    • Snakes–slither about and make people ill; also, their little organization stays low, but when you aren’t looking, they’ll bite you in the…
    • The Declaimer’s Transcendence
    • A World of Danger
  • Baz is… famous?
    • The Baztian?
    • Who stands up to Readers, to their faces
    • Del wouldn’t have won the trials or even made it back without Baz
    • Baz pushes his luck with Oges
  • Baz realizes he’s in a precarious position
  • The Poison

Chapter 7

  • A circular meeting hall with nice furniture
  • Plants, barrels, vials
  • There are others down there, mostly Speakers from other Libraries, but also an Illit guard
    • Leather pouches
    • They’ve all heard of Baz
    • You tamed a dragon!
    • They even have the impression he, in fact, is the one who completed the Trials
    • Baz denies, they think he’s just being cautious
    • Who is telling them all this about Baz?
  • Underground tunnel network
  • Dreadleaf
  • An Uprising! Just like in Fortune; 
    • draw inspiration from Fortune—just think what we can achieve if half the Readers are dead!
    • Exterminating Angel, leader of Fortune’s rebels; Haiti story
    • Despite Farston being non-chalant, seems Readers are taking uprising in Fortune seriously, ordering guards to break up groups of Speakers (per Lenz)
  • Poison the water supply; municipal water system; aqueducts; similar to a plan slaves in Haiti had for poisoning Le Cap
  • The All-Seeing One
    • Snakes’ true leader
    • Came up with poison idea
    • “Sounds like a bastard”—understands his plan will kill innocents
  • Mass Murder
  • But Baz can relate
    • They all lay on their hard pallets, fantasizing about Readers getting what they deserve
    • Baz guilt—he actually had an opportunity to give Del what he “deserves” and didn’t
  • The All-Seeing One told them to listen to Baz—he’s the one who’s been spreading (accurate) rumors about Baz. Who is he? That’s why looking to Baz for inspiration
  • Baz reveals he’s going to Fortune to find a “weapon”
  • Oges gives Baz one month
  • Now Baz has responsibility for all the people who might die if water poisoned

 CONCLUSION

Homework: Read Declaimer’s Discovery chapters 8 and 9. Baz joins a club; then he meets the All-Seeing One (why is that title ironic?); then Baz hears something that causes him to break into a run!

Quote:

“Too late, I found you can’t wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”

― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

Patience is a virtue, or so they say. But is it? Perhaps not when it comes to achieving your dreams. How often have you heard someone say, “I wish I could do this, but the time just isn’t right”; or, “I’ll get around to that… someday”; or, maybe the saddest of all, “I wish I’d just tried.”

Taking a shot is scary. It makes you vulnerable, risks failure, forces you to face reality. In a world where most have settled for good enough, going for what you really want makes you an outlier, a weirdo, a boat-rocker. But don’t let those naysayers stop you. Contrary to popular wisdom, the time will never be perfect for you to take a chance, so you might as well take one now. Don’t be that person who looks back one day with wistful eyes and says, “I wish…”

Until next time, this has been D. T. Kane’s Epic Fantasy Book Club.

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