Now On To Formatting! (and other news)

21 Mar 201921 Mar 2019

Editing (with the exception of a couple technical whoopsies caught by proof reading ) is done!  I am so relieved.  Both Books 1 and 2 are now set to be…

Almost There: Edit, Polish, Format, Publish

14 Sep 201814 Sep 2018

Yep.  The big edits are now done. I'm getting feedback from my editor on it, and I should have the beta readers copy off to my team by the 21st. …

Delays Delays

4 Sep 20184 Sep 2018

Okay... Editing is a beast.  Particularly when you're doing two edits at once that often require a third comb through.  I vastly overestimated my output. That said, I'm on chapter…

I’ll Pull the Trigger, You Can Lend a Hand

23 May 2018

So it's official.  I've got a trilogy emerging in lieu of a book I never expected to have to write to bridge a gap in the original storyline.  It's going…

Chaos… At Home & Abroad

6 Mar 2018

With all the news going on in the world, it's been very hard to focus on my writing.  Then again, realizing how big this grew, I've been struggling with the…

Sometimes You Must Go Back To Go Forward

4 Jan 2018

After a great meeting with my editor, I realized that I had to restore a subplot I cut out of the book.  I figured it was going to end up…

Whew! Now the Fun Really Starts.

18 Nov 2017

Survived work till vacation kicked in. So, I'm doing a speed round of writing.  I got a few chapters plotted out, and they should be very exciting and fly by. …

A Fast… By Many Definitions

14 Nov 2017

Fast as a noun and fast as an adjective. Much like how I started writing "A Light Rises in a Dark World", Book 2 is now being written during a…

Ensemble Casts Suck

26 Oct 201726 Oct 2017

No seriously.  They are such a pain to write.  How do you give proper attention to characters when you are stuck with scenes that require seven or more to be…

News from the Home Front – Aug ed.

18 Aug 201717 Aug 2017

When I first thought about self publishing, I considered several models on how to put out my work.  It has become time for me to go forward with one of…