Sowing the Dragon's Teeth by Jonathan E. Hernandez

He’s not a bad person he’s unsophisticated and sees things in very polar terms. Why these two characters? What made you choose them to tell your story through? The main characters of your trilogy are Pappy (a grizzled human soldier) and Talks-To-His-Spear from The Regime. It’s my attemptĪt what the Marvel Cinematic Universe did leading up to the Infinity War. NOMAD explores something that was briefly mentioned in book one.īuilding up intrigue that will come to a head in a few books. I drop Easter eggs in my work to add to the lore. My current novel project, working title NOMAD, is set in the Pax Universe as well. I wanted an immersive sandbox so that I would be willing to spend enough time there to finish another book or series. I spent a lot of time working on what I call the Pax Universe which is where the GORDIAN KNOT series is set. I feel like there’s never enough time to write them all.

I have ideas for stories of all kinds, and in other genres. Are there more books planned for your universe, or are you moving on to other things? Your website shows your world-building is pretty darn extensive, alright.

So, I love deep-dive extensive universe-building. Man, a good writing group definitely sharpens its members, so I’m glad they served you well. I finished the trilogy in 2021 – the same year that book one made its debut. I pitched ONE DAY AS A LION to Aethon Books in 2019 during #SFFpit and things moved quickly after that, with some delays along the way because of things like Covid. I needed a trilogy to tell the entire story and give the universe the stage it deserves. The trilogy and book one grew out of a need to address questions that my peers had regarding the story, and short fiction has always been one of my weaknesses.

I’m glad that they did it needed a lot of work. It was an ambitious but flawed story that got torn apart by my writing group (the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers). The first book of the trilogy, ONE DAY AS A LION, grew out of a short story called “The Duel” that I wrote in 2012. I present it to you now as a short transcript…įirst question for you, John: How long had you been writing your GORDIAN KNOT trilogy before Aethon said, “Can we publish that?” (Aethon being the publishing house, of course). We caught up recently for a quick conversation. Quickly seen that he’s a writer of great talent. Instantly, I knew this was a man of good character - just as I’d I’d read a couple of chapters of Jonathan E Hernandez’s One Day as a Lion before we met through social media.

Sowing the Dragon's Teeth by Jonathan E. Hernandez