Book Teaser & Artwork

This is going up for those of you who don't know anything about this, or just want to read it again. Since the goal of this blog is to enlighten not only the people who already know about this project, but to gain new readers by chance here is the teaser for Cursed and the Damned:

To save their world, two young men must break a curse by the bonds of their friendship.

 Near his eighteenth birthday, Prince Atraiu and the kingdom of Altaria lose their ruler King Edric, Atraiu’s father. This is a golden opportunity for the Lord of a nearby kingdom to see if he can’t persuade the upcoming king to join his side in conquering Altaria’s neighboring kingdom of Redaltras; which has a mercenary group of Dragon Riders. Redaltras is just one of his many steps in trying to rule the continent with Altaria being another, but you have to take it one step at a time right?  Also on his agenda is wooing the departed king’s widow with whom he is enamored and in turn satisfying his libido. When his plan fails, his persuasion ends up involving an ancient curse of a long dead dragon king and falsifying the death of Prince Atraiu who has unwillingly had this curse place upon him and in turn ends up a dragon himself.

With all evidence pointing to the kingdom of Redaltras behind this treachery, Altaria joins the evil Lord Tregone in his quest to snuff out the kingdom. Only Atraiu has an inclination of what has happened and unfortunately he can’t tell. But one astute dragon riding mercenary from Redaltras, Davali, stumbles across the fact Atraiu is more than he appears and learns of the curse. His will to help is strong but he learns that there is a catch and that is to become damned himself. Will Atraiu and Davali be able to save the lands from Tregone’s evil scheme and be able to defeat curse of the dragon king Adapu? 

Below are the first drawings of Atraiu and Davali. This beautiful artwork is done by the Comic Book world's own Ron Lim, who is kind enough to be working with me on this project and is helping with the book cover.

 

As I said before in a previous reply, the best way to get this out there is by word of mouth and if you all can think of anyone who might be interested in this, please send them this way. I plan on updating this blog at least daily in one fashion or another. 

Thanks for reading,

Michelle

Cursed and the Damned © Michelle Scheunemann

Artwork © Ron Lim