The Song of Gumo: A City-Building Chronicle

Rooted in the true history of the Eastern Han’s restoration of contact with the Western Regions, this epic brings to life the heroic saga of a Han court official who sets out alone and goes on to forge an alliance of Silk Road city-states. Combining rigorous historical and geographical research, cultural exchange among diverse peoples, grand strategies of war, and a profound love for the homeland, it creates an epic IP designed for ongoing storytelling and development across multiple formats. The five-book series, A Journey Across Solitary Mountains, The City Walls, Beacon Fires, The Alliance to Secure the Frontier, and The Year of Return to Han, takes readers from a lone rider’s solitary trek to a pact among the powers of the ten-thousand-li Silk Road, culminating in a spiritual kinship between Chinese civilization and the peoples of the Western Regions. Mountains and rivers become the pages; a long song becomes history. Tone and themes: classical heroic epic / love of country and home / rigorous historical and geographical research / cultural exchange / grand strategies of war