May 9, 2015

Greetings once more from the Front Lines...

Things are progressing fairly well with the book.  I have just finished Chapter 31, and begun work on the next.  The rough draft features numerous smaller chapters rather than a few megalithic ones.  The good news is I feel I am about 85% done with the book, depending on how the last few chapters play out.  Yeah!

I have been finishing about two to three chapters a week, so I believe I am roughly two weeks out from having a complete rough draft.  At that point I will begin my edit pass, cleaning up some of continuity and inserting some bits of foreshadowing for stuff I ended up adding to the second half the book.

Bad news is we have dropped out of the number Five position for the Swords and Lasers competition.  :(  I am going to work hard redoing a media blitz to see if I can get the word out about the book, and I know I have a few friends and family that still haven't signed up.  As of this writing the gap is about thirty pre-orders or so.  When I sit down to work I find I either can put on my Writing Cap (assault helmet?) or my PR Hat (Clown Nose?).  Recently I have been focused on actually finishing the book instead of marketing it, but perhaps this is the wrong approach.  Anways, I will redouble my efforts next week.  If any of you could post a link to the book on whatever dark parts of the web you lurk, that would be a great help as well.

I posted an extra chapter this week as well, walking through some of the back history of how the Legion came to be.  I actually have that story written as well, but decided to focus on this one first.  If we manage to publish this book, I will have a prequel ready almost right away.

Thanks for all your support.  Been writing some fun action scenes in the second half the book.  Hope you enjoy them!

~~yarry