First Line – Harbinger

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This is how Harbinger, the fourth book in the Ania series, begins. It will be released December 10, 2018.

Actually, in a way, it is also the first book in the series, as it is a prequel to the original trilogy of Blood on Blood, Queen of Diamonds, and Closing the Circle.

It’s a good opener, but I didn’t write it. Jim Wilsky did, writing as Boyd, one of the two protagonists in this dual narrative, first-person format with alternating chapters between Jim’s Boyd and my Hicks.

I think this is a solid B+ for a first line.

You?

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I only realized while doing this “First Line” series that I actually wrote the first lines of all three books in the original trilogy. Blood on Blood opens with a Gar Sawyer chapter, which I wrote. Like all of our books together, we both took an editorial hand throughout, but this opener was me. Same thing with the Ania opening in Queen of Diamonds, though if I recall, I only wrote the first part of that chapter and/or Jim added a bunch to it. His fingerprints are all over the last half of it. The Wendy opener in Closing the Circle was much the same – I wrote the first draft, with that first line, and Jim added to it.

Harbinger marks the only time in the series that we started with one of the two protagonists, and since that first narrator was Boyd, Jim has the opening line to the book.

Like I said, it’s a good one. Typical Wilsky, as he is outstanding at painting a picture of the setting (admittedly one of my weaker areas).

My opening line, from the first chapter narrated by Hicks?

“Do you really own a ship?”

It’s spoken by Hicks’s date.

Yeah, I agree — Jim’s opener is much more poetic.

Interesting tidbit… while I wrote the opening line in three of the four Ania novels, Jim came up with the titles for three of the four. I landed on Blood on Blood, but he came up with the rest, and each one is very fitting. So I guess we had a fair division of labor!

Harbinger is a prequel to the original trilogy, and is an origin story for Ania. You can read it as book 0 in the series or book 4. Or all by itself. Each of the novels stands alone, despite being part of the series.  Personally, I like the impact of certain twists and revelations in Harbinger that are there if you read it last. Jim leans more toward reading it first. It’s up to you.

Lastly… damn, Zach nailed it again with the cover, huh?
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