#lead characters

That’s good. I like what I’m seeing so far. It’s just getting my slow brain to catch up to all that’s going on and being able to follow the fast-paced narratives.

It’s clear that both characters in the WLW ship are lead characters. That’s wonderful because that’s very rare. That’s definitely going to help my reception to it a lot because it means both these lead characters will have significant individual representation and development with which to build a solid foundation for their dynamic together and relationship beyond something romantic - which is what I look so damn hard for but can’t ever seem to find in this day and age. So I’m very happy about that. But - of course - it all depends on how they evolve. That’s what keeps my interest. Not the set ups.

Also love that they’re heavily enemies-to-lovers - right down to the classic motif of knife to the chest intensity.

They’re already dripping with authentic chemistry, compelling tension, sexual innuendo and subtext.

That’s the draw and it’s drawn a lot of people in. But the challenge comes in keeping that draw going and going. That’s what I’ll be paying very close attention to with watching each and every episode. Zoning so far into the characterization and how it doesn’t feel like it’s forced. Because I can immediately tell the difference. Trained eyes and ears from engaging in the best representation.

FEMALE AWESOME MEME: Lead characters [5/10] ↳ Danielle de Barbarac (Ever After)

Every backer who pledges at least $1 will get two previously published eBooks of mine if the campaign is successful. There are early bird rewards still available, and links at the campaign page will take you to where you can read the first two chapters for free to see if you like it. 

So what is Deathwatch and The Faded Earth Trilogy overall about? Well. 

Just as technology was reaching a point where the impossible verged on being real, The Fade struck. The vast majority of human beings were turned into Pales--dead bodies reanimated and drastically altered by The Fade into violent killing machines much harder to harm than living people. 

But this is not that story. This is what came after. 

A century of white-knuckled survival later, and human civilization has changed beyond recognition. Survival itself has become almost a religion, and concepts like civil rights and privacy have nearly vanished. All people live in one Rez or another, walled cities providing haven from the ravaged world and the violent dead outside. 

Manning those walls and managing each Rez: the Deathwatch. A group of anonymous men and women in power armor whose sole edict and driving tenet is the continued existence of the human race. 

At any cost. 

Told from the perspective of Beck, a young woman who loses everything just as she’s about to unearth a discovery that could bring the North American Protectorate to its knees, and Eshton, a Deathwatch veteran, both will have to decide where their loyalties lie and who they can trust. 

And whether or not the changes they might bring to the world are for good or ill.