Chapter 2 is up now for all those interested. I’m going to try to get a chapter out every Friday until I hit somewhere around the book’s halfway point, maybe, if I miss a Friday shot I’ll make sure to get it out the following Monday.

Work on Book 2’s outline is a little slow right now but that’s primarily due to the fact that I’m into the first "historical" chapter and, not only am I working out a dating scheme for events, I’ve also partially thrown out my old naming conventions for the Kepler people. This will be explained, in the course of the story, but the old naming convention is ironically the modern one for the Kepler people, in the series’ chronology. While it’s slowed things down a bit, it’s been really exciting to explore and build all of this ancient history stuff that I’ve barely even hinted at and I never really thought would appear in anything more than a series encyclopedia entry.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the new content and I would love to hear any feedback you have.

So Chapter 1 of The Road To Hell is now up for all to read. If you’ve been following this project from the start, at least the Inkshares start, this is the latest version of the chapter. I know it’s a little different from what was posted before, because I did the rewrite, but how much different is kind of a mystery to me because I’m not exactly an objective observe. Most of these early chapters are probably going to be that way.

I know it’s a little dense on descriptions and introducing a bunch of new stuff but the first half to three quarters of this book are some of the oldest chapters I’ve written, like maybe as much as fifteen years old, and when I first wrote them I was trying to setup a lot of stuff for the rest of the series. Not to mention that I was trying really hard to channel Tom Clancy and, after awhile, I learned that was kind of pointless because I’m not him. I’m me.

The outline for Book 2 is coming along a little slowly but because of my redesign I have to come with a whole historical epic that has really only been whispered at. The slow down isn’t aggravating, like writers block, it’s a kind of invigorating with all the planning and mapping battles and prison riots and such. It’s all just kind of time consuming to get all of the geography right and I have had to break out of my normal naming conventions for the Kepler people which throws it’s own unique wrench into the works.

But things are going well and I’m going to try to get a new sample chapter up every Friday until I hit maybe the halfway point in the book, although If I can pull in a few thousand direct followers like right away I may just open up preorders outright. Yeah I know that would be a miracle. :)