My projects relate to places which tinder my imagination: battlefields, mountains, continents. My genre is historical fiction/suspense. Presently, I am working on a novel entitled, Sapa Inca, much of which occurs during the Tupac Amaru 2 rebellion in Peru, (1781-1783), which tried, unsuccessfully, to rid the country of Spanish domination.
Writing in the early 19th Century, the narrator is an American who immigrated to Peru, from Manhattan, with his Incan mother, as a boy. He will reflect on his turbulent childhood, during the revolt, and how he undergoes drastic personal changes because of it. The novel will explore Incan religion, specifically creation myths, as well as the Dominican convent in Cuzco, where a murder will occur. In time, that event will altar the course of the narrator's life.
(Of royal lineage, his mother will abandon him after a critical battle near Cuzco, the former Incan capital. In reaction, he will enter the Dominican Monastery there, several years later, intending to become a friar, renouncing his mother's native religion and his mother herself. He will be forced to leave Santa Domingo, however, when a murder occurs in the Dominican convent nearby, and suspicion falls on him. That event will cause him to swerve from Christianity to indigenous beliefs. Literal intoxication during smelting at a silver mine will convince him that he is the new Incan messiah, the Sapa Inca, and that the Conquistadores will be destroyed, and the world will change when he climbs the sacred Inca mountain, Huayna Potosi.)
Writing in the early 19th Century, the narrator is an American who immigrated to Peru, from Manhattan, with his Incan mother, as a boy. He will reflect on his turbulent childhood, during the revolt, and how he undergoes drastic personal changes because of it. The novel will explore Incan religion, specifically creation myths, as well as the Dominican convent in Cuzco, where a murder will occur. In time, that event will altar the course of the narrator's life.
(Of royal lineage, his mother will abandon him after a critical battle near Cuzco, the former Incan capital. In reaction, he will enter the Dominican Monastery there, several years later, intending to become a friar, renouncing his mother's native religion and his mother herself. He will be forced to leave Santa Domingo, however, when a murder occurs in the Dominican convent nearby, and suspicion falls on him. That event will cause him to swerve from Christianity to indigenous beliefs. Literal intoxication during smelting at a silver mine will convince him that he is the new Incan messiah, the Sapa Inca, and that the Conquistadores will be destroyed, and the world will change when he climbs the sacred Inca mountain, Huayna Potosi.)