The Wizard Killer - Season 1

My Love of Serials

my love of serials

A long, long time ago I used to write 1960s style bubble-gum super-hero serials with some friends. I was a HUGE comic book fan (I still have 1500 comics, bagged and boarded, in my basement). Writing episodes was a fun, mind-bending challenge. Each episode needed to be gripping on its own, but all of them together had to weave a coherent tale that looked like I'd written them all together. Some things never change.

When I was writing my first science fiction book, The Man of Cloud 9, I decided to give myself a ludicrous stretch goal. On top of writing that book, doing book signings, giving talks, taking care of my 3 kids, blogging, and so on, why not commit myself to writing and posting meaty episodes each and every week. Sure, not a problem. I don't need to sleep, right?

It was scary, posting raw works like that. I kept expecting to find an excuse why I would stop, but I didn't.

At first, I figured no one was going to read it, but boy was I wrong. The Wizard Killer had a wildly diverse group of fans. Some would run to my website within minutes of new episodes being posted, and wanted more, NOW!

So for 20 weeks, I brought readers along with me on an amazing and intense adventure. While sometimes I'd sketch on paper where things might go ahead of time, until I was happy with the words on the screen, I didn't know where things would really end up.

While this version's been tweaked and professionally edited, it's still very much exactly what we all went through, only you don't have to wait a week between episodes. So welcome to a very different side of me, the side of me that's the story-teller who stares at the camp-fire with a hot cup of tea in his hands, and spins you a tale.

- Adam