Hertzan Chimera novel - LAST OF THE CATHEDRA - three faction chapter headers

LAST OF THE CATHEDRA
triple chapter headers...

I did this in my 2008 novel Planet of the Owls, where each alternate chapter had either a graphic human_header or an owl_header.

This book, there are three factions embroiled in a Classic Love Triangle... Cathedra, Human and D-reamer.

There'll be a relevant chapter number above each of these serial icons as the book unfolds its chapters. It's currently the plan that chapter 1 and chapter 23 will form the prologue and the epilogue of this book, written by (or from the perspective of) the Last of the Cathedra.

Hertzan Chimera novel - LAST OF THE CATHEDRA - narrative update and new cover

enhanced cover concept

you're right, this is how I plan and execute my novels...

No, this is not a new novel. 

As you'll see from the subtle update of the last cover this new novel had, it's the same novel. Well, it's a content output from the last three years of notes leading up to the writing of this novel.

"The story started to resolve itself very successfully today and I now understand a lot more about the two central characters of this inter-galactic love story and their pivotal roles within this universe of words."

Hope it continues to write itself in such an emotive way.

Hertzan Chimera novel - CARRIERS AND CATHEDRALS - narrative update and new cover

inspirational cover concept

So, I'm back from my relaxing holiday and I think I have the basis of certain story elements that will sit happily within the alien-prequel-esque structure of my new my INTERGALACTIC SLAVETRADE novel Carriers & Cathedrals.

 It's gonna be pure romance; pure lovely, love! 

Since the pre-holiday Happen announcement, the book has concreted around certain key narrative threads and while it conveys itself across this intial plane of the narrative process the cover and title of the book have changed.

Here's the best way to describe this book, "Alien Prequel That Never Was."  I know there are many people out there who were disgusted with how Ridley Scott butchered Gigerworld with his terrible Alien-prequel i.e. Prometheus. This book isn't that pile of steaming corporate bullshit, believe me. This book is how we get the perky inhabitants of Gigerworld onto the planet LV-426 without all that space-jesus black-goo ass-cracker-crew live-forever-like-a-robot-called-David nonsense. 

Not sure if cover/title will stay this way but it's 'illustrative' of where the current path of the INTERGALACTIC SLAVETRADE vector is going.

Fuck off, HC, it's a mainstream romance!

QUICK-FEEDBACK UPDATE: while the 'new' title Carriers & Cathedrals sounds like an implied narrative amalgamation between Military and Church, the 'carriers' aren't really those kind of Carriers and the 'cathedrals' aren't really those kind of Cathedrals. It's great that I'm getting such feedback so early in the day of this post going live suffice to say, "You're all gonna be surprised (I hope) and delighted to see where this strange-prequel-lovestory narrative goes."

Or went...