Finally, Neel and his companions arrive in Ebaru and meet the king. Neel looked around, trying to get his bearings. Which way was Ebaru City? Although they were high up, the trees and surrounding peaks obscured his view. “Let’s find a path first,” Mikhandor said, and started walking. “This way.” Read more…
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The Elven Curse – Interlude 2
Interlude 2 of The Elven Curse is online. In this chapter, we meet King Hanassan of Ebaru. Being a king was overrated. Hanassan hated his job, and had always been glad that he was the youngest of the brothers. He figured he’d never have to assume that oppressive throne, yet here he was. His entire…
The Elven Curse – Chapter 29
Chapter 29 of The Elven Curse is online. In this chapter, things go horribly wrong for Neel and his friends. It was two nights before our departures from Ebaru. Almost all our belongings were packed, and we’d gone to bed early. We were tired, not just from all the work, but even more from the…
My Reading List
Writers are readers. That’s usually how it starts. I’m certainly no exception to that rule. I’m not a fast reader, though, so I won’t be reading hundreds of books a year. In fact, I’ll be lucky if I make it to ten. With that in mind, I created my reading list for this year. On…
Goals for 2021
… and what 2020 taught me. No, I don’t really want to climb a mountain, live in Japan, become rich and famous or buy a yacht. Those are not things that are important to me. The year 2020 was a year of change. And, although Covid has brought a lot of suffering, not all was…
The Elven Curse – Chapter 26
Chapter 26 of The Elven Curse is online. In this chapter Neel’s cousins arrive in Ebaru. Finally came the day when my great-aunt and cousins arrived. Tough my great-uncle assured me it was perfectly safe for me to accompany him to the drakenport, I wasn’t so sure. “The king and his men…” I began, then…
The Elven Curse – Chapter 24
Chapter 24 of The Elven Curse is online. In this chapter, we find out what happened to Neel’s family after he went to Ebaru. He lay in his bed, eyes still closed, trying his hardest not to feel like he’d been mauled by a wild animal. It didn’t work, of course. Though not by a…
The Elven Curse
The Elven Curse is a story that has been in the making for over a decade. A story about kings, priests, elves, and a woman in a wheelchair. The first draft is ready now, and I’m posting one chapter per week on my blog The Elven Curse. It’s Fantasy, and although I certainly wouldn’t classify…
Introduction
Who is Daan Katz really? Born in 1963, as the second of three children, Daan grew up in The Hague, the Netherlands. From a very young age, Daan has been enchanted by stories, and it was only natural for him to start writing his own stories as soon as he realised that he could. Intellectually…