The first chapter of Road of Sacrifice is now up! Find it on my website, on Twisting the Hellmouth, or on FF.Net. On my FF.Net profile page you can also find a poll regarding which actor should portray an adult Remus Lupin (second war) in future art!

With less than a month to go before Road of Sacrifice - the third part in the Roads Travelled series featuring the second part of the first war - is published for its first chapter, I decided it was time to give you all a little treat! Other than a new LJ Header for Road of Sacrifice and a new blurb/theme-song,  here are some spoilers...

Remember that little teaser list of things to come in Road of Sacrifice that I posted back in January? I've decided to expand on a little details: New life >> New Hope = Harry. (That was the easiest guess...) There will be a prophecy: Is it the prophecy from HP canon or a new one, you ask? Keep asking. lol. A glimpse into Sunnydale life: some Sunnydale characters will make an appearance. Whether they will appear as dreams, flashbacks, in the Sunnydale-verse, or HP-verse, I won't say, however. Their appearance will make Buffy wonder about some things, though. What things? That would telling!

As a final teaser to tide you over the rest of June, below is the intro-text to the first chapter, from Lily's POV, along with part of scene between Voldemort, Bellatrix and Mandy during her captivity...

Here comes more spoilers, this time for the next chapter of Road of Carnage (chapter 25), in the form of three teasers taken out of context... obviously, don't read if you want to be totally surprised. Or have trouble with handling suspense. The first teaser is quite mild, but the last two, albeit short...well, I won't say anything more. Also, for those interested, several new still frames for Death Eaters and some Order members can now be found on the Roads Travelled website.

Excerpts from Road of Carnage chapter 25

 

First of all, let me wish you all a happy summer and hope you're not ill like I am. Second of all, let me thank the one/those who nominated Road of Innocence for all those categories for Twisting the Hellmouths 2010 Crossing Over Awards! I'm really honoured you find my story good enough to compete! Thirdly, if you haven't voted in my poll for Road of Sacrifice, please go ahead and do so! Right now, the results are very close together, so if you want to be sure things will work out the way you want them to, make your opinion known!

Now, I am sure there are quite a lot of my Out of the Blue readers who wonder what has happened to Way of the Warriors. Well, as I'm sure you can guess, I have one hell of a writer's block on that one. However, I did promise I would never abandon my stories, and I don't plan to, espescially not that one: I've put way too much time and energy into it to do that! The problem has been I haven't been able to find an ending/plot development that satisfies me and isn't boring for you to read because of closeness to the books. I think I am past that problem now - I've been going over my outlines for the rest of the story and its sequel/the series final part, and I've done a lot of changes and additions that I hope will satisfy you.

I know where to take the series now, and I hope that will make it easier to write. I wrote another chapter of Way of the Warriors last night and sent it off to my beta, so hopefully, you should have it soon. I also hope I will be able to find the inspiration to write the chapters following that one as quickly as possible, so I can move ahead to the final story in the series, which will be between 15-20 chapters and called Into the Blue (at first I planned to call it Darkening Sky, but I changed it because I think it ties things together a lot more neatly, considering the first story was called Out of the Blue - and the title is less depressing)

PS. I hope you like the new icons/user pictures, which feature characters from Roads Travelled (to match the Header, of course): Buffy, Remus, Lily, Mandy and Samantha x2.