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Meet Gideon

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Hi!

So, I was thinking about what I’ve told you about Mordecai, which led me to think about another of the angels that works at the Sanctuary. Gideon, is a Guardian Angel who was sent to Earth long ago to protect mankind. Like Mordecai his only purpose is to serve. But he is still a prisoner lacking free will. He stands on the other side of the Gate from Mordecai, a fully light Angel, but he is still as much of a prisoner to his duty as Mordecai is.

He’s spent millennia on earth, watching his charges be born and die. He can’t help but love each one, can’t help but feel pride in their successes, abject grief in their deaths. He can only watch them though, never touch them, never speak to them and he is very alone. Then he meets Anna, mother to A G, the heroine of “Angel’s Gate”. For the first time in a long time he can be seen, he can for a time almost be human. He gets to be her companion, gets to be there to watch her daughter grow, he gets to fall in love with her, but in the end, like always, he gets to see her die. Something in him breaks and he questions his duty, his purpose. He knows he will never fall, but he no longer can find joy in his purpose.

Gideon was supposed to be just a minor character when I began to write “Angel’s Gate”, but this heartbroken Angel made me simply fall love. By the end of the story I just knew he needed his own book. So, he’s definitely getting one 🙂

I can’t wait for you to meet Gideon. Talk soon,

L.

The ShadowGate Series by L Becker

Chapter Two

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Hi to all of you in the Shadow Kingdom!

The re-write on ‘Angel’s Gate’ is going good.  A little slow, mainly due to the fact that I’ve been a tad lazy.  Netflix has got to be the enemy of productivity.  At least in this writer’s life.  But, I finally chained myself back to my desk chair and punched out another chapter.  So Chapter 2 is done and heading into Chapter 3.

I’m having fun reintroducing myself to this book and these characters.  Yes I spent months with them in the original draft, but it’s a much deeper relationship this time around.  I now know them and am able to bring out more depth and nuances to their characters.  I’m also adding some new scenes to give us a greater understanding of our female protagonist.

“The plane landed with a light bounce against the runway. AG could hear the faint screech of rubber as tires met asphalt and then she felt herself dipped forward as the brakes came into play.  A familiar combination of sensations, familiar from years of air travel, but never had she felt them at this airfield.  She’d never flown into Albany International.  She’d only flown out of it.  Ten years ago when she’d left home.  She’d boarded a plane and headed west.  Out to California, to the state that she’d made her home.  She’d never flown home.  Not in all that time.  Never flown home… until now.

She remained still as the plane taxied toward the terminal, as others around her began to stir.  Laptops were closed and stowed.  People awakened from the awkward doze of the experienced air traveler.  Ahead of her, past the wing, a little girl’s voice lifted in an unhappy whine.  She didn’t move, let the passengers on either side of her shift and grab for hand bags and carry-ons.  But her thoughts were not on them, or those moments.  Her thoughts were elsewhere.  Thinking back to a dream.  The dream she’d had only hours before she’d learned of her mother’s death.  A dream she’d woken from in tears.” – Excerpt Chapter Two – Angel’s Gate

All in all I’m enjoying the work, when I can drag myself away from Netflix!

Well, until next time,

Talk soon,

L