Settings

I mentioned historical settings yesterday, obviously because that’s exactly what my next project will be featuring. It’s a nineteenth century story set in Sub-Saharan Africa. Much of the story will take place in the Kraals of the Zulus, and right now I’m submersing myself in books, DVDs, and online sites that have to do with anything Zulu.

For those of you who are not familiar with the term, a Kraal is like a small village of a native African tribe. It’s a circular formation of hive-shaped huts made from tree saplings and grass thatching with floors of clay and cow dung, and in its center is the cattle pen, which is the livelihood of the tribe.

But there will be other settings as well, like battlefields in the open plains, and when this story is done, it will feature, not only the friendship between John Dunn and the Zulu King Cetshwayo, but it will also involve a very large conflict with Dunn’s white wife centered around her disapproval of his 48 Zulu wives. Yes, I think this will be a very intriguing story indeed.