Raiders of the Middle Sea is a fantasy adventure set in Zak Ludick's World of Kedra.
World of Kedra is an expansive fantasy world built with several book series story-lines being written in it.
Introduction to Raiders
The story in Raiders predominantly follows characters from a ship called the King's Dart. The vessel was attacked by pirates and some of the crew was taken prisoner. Some of the prisoners were sold as slaves and made up some of the profits the pirates made on that raid.
One side of the story shows Kayden, an able bodied sailor that has some training in swordsmanship. He was sold as a slave and his story shows him fighting in arenas as a gladiator.
On the other side is Leland who is on his first voyage out to sea. He had been hired as the ship's book keeper. When every trained and qualified person aboard was either killed or taken by the pirates, the remainder of the crew voted for him to be Captain of the vessel as he was the only educated man left.
Bookshelf
If you would like to read Raiders of the Middle Sea (or ROTMS for short) then observe the Bookshelf below:
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 1 / Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 2
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 3 / Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 4
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 5 / Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 6
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 7 / Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 8
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 9 / Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 10
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 11 / Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 12
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 13 / Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 14
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 15 / Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 16
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 17 / Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 18
Word Count
As promised from my Journal posts, I was going to submit my wordcounts so far:
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 1 - 1014
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 2 - 1149
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 3 - 1004
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 4 - 747
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 5 - 912
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 6 - 1237
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 7 - 1109
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 8 - 1719
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 9 - 1389
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 10 - 2795
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 11 - 1475
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 12 - 1194
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 13 - 2544
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 14 - 1648
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 15 - 2010
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 16 - 708
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 17 - 1665
Raiders of the Middle Sea Part 18 - 1484
TOTAL SO FAR: 25,803 words
Visual representation
So the white stack of papers that is in the middle is all of the Steemit published Raiders of the Middle Sea printed out single sided at 12pts. A novel is half the page size but the printed paper is double the novel size, so I can compare the two.
In the picture one book is pressing my stack flat, so it isn't all puffed up. Next to the stack on either side for comparison are Richard A. Knaak's Ice Dragon and Dan Abnett's Riders of the Dead.
Purpose of this is just to see how large the Raiders story has become. I have plenty that is already written that I need to edit and publish and by the time I get to there then there will be more to add to the story to bring it to some sort of conclusion. If there is one.
I have 18 episodes out. I will update this list once every 5-9 posts or two weekly as time allows.