This year’s been a long annoying one in terms of real life. The government shutdown impacted my day job – a lot – and part of my daily tasks are still cleaning it up. But, you probably don’t want to hear about that. If you’re reading this, on my website or through an Email alert – you want to know what I’ve been writing.
Well, words. That’s what.
Feb 26th marked the first book I’ve published in almost a year and a half. Liars Called – a modern fantasy apocalypse story, is my attempt at a faster paced somewhat amoral hero in a world gone mad. I enjoyed writing it, have the 2nd novel going through editing now, and will start writing the 3rd one after I finish another book.
Link to Liars Called here: books2read.com/liarscalled
The Fiasco 2 is still on my plate. I hate that I haven’t finished it yet because the story’s so insane and fun. Superheroes are exciting – but writing it has always been a mind drain. It’s like trying to steer a shopping cart with two bad wheels using one hand while holding a two year old over my shoulder. Which I’ve done – you parents out there can probably relate.
Draft chapters for The Fiasco In School here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/5589/the-fiasco
I managed to write a lot of Lawless Ink’s 2nd book. That story’s a bit easier and is at chapter 9 out of a plotted 25 or so. It should be roughly the same size as the first book and answer a ton of questions. If my notes are right, Lawless Ink is planned for four books – I can’t bring myself to do the endlessly open series.
Draft chapters for Lawless Ink here:
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21113/lawless-ink
Fridays Online is my big push going into March. Given mental focus and motivation (frequently lacking but I try for you guys and gals none-the-less), I want to finish it by the end of the month – or partway through April. It needs a good solid cover on par with Continue Online’s, editing, which makes me pull my teeth, and then it’ll be ready to go.
Draft chapters for Fridays Online here: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/19808/fridays-continue-online
We’re planning on moving forward with audio books too. I’m always stunned that anyone out there likes audio, but if that helps people enjoy the work, so be it. Finding a narrator who worked as well with us as Pavi might be hard though.
I want to do an audio book for The Fiasco – but I’ll probably have to do a rewrite pass to make it a bit more vocal friendly – some of the stuff in there doubles up on words or phrases too much and if I read it out loud (Like I do for Lawless but on that one I use a bad John Wayne accent), it has some stumbling points.
My whole review system is probably going to get overhauled, moved, or deleted. I don’t like managing pages on WordPress – while it’s easy – it’s a pain to deal with after the fact. It might be possible with a better system or a personal version of the website. Dealing with webpage coding, trying to write, my day job – it’s too much from my pea brain to handle. So, unless I can find an easy way to make the webpage pretty with reviews, I probably won’t be doing anymore, any time soon.
We’ll see how March goes. I’ll work on posting more.
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