Listen... sure, I said the 17th. Did I try? Oh, baby, you bet I did. Did life decide that the 17th was the perfect day for a combination of hard drive failure, needing a new car battery, and a bunch of smaller nonsense that literally took up every waking hour? Apparently.
So it has again been a while between updates, but unlike last time, there has actually been some stuff going on. So I now present a multi part update:
Ghosts of War - I’ve gotten more done in the last 6 weeks or so than I had in the rest of 2016, so that’s a positive. Like, you can use 4 numbers to count the amount of words written. So I seem to be getting out the other side of this giant patch of writer’s block I’ve been in (NaNo did not work out...at all...), which is nice.
I’ve also set a deadline for getting a final draft into Inkshares. Plan is to get that into them by the end of July so that there’s enough time to get this thing into your hands before the end of the year.
Also, Inkshares recently launched their ’properties’ initiative which helps authors sell the rights for their works to people wanting to make TV shows, movies, audiobooks and the like. It’s a rather exciting thing for them to be doing and it’ll be interesting to see if anything comes from it for Ghosts.
LandFall - So this is my fantasy project that I hope to get to working on later this year. I had the idea up on Inkshares a while ago, but have recently bumped it into draft mode so I can put up a sample chapter. Also, while on a break day (read: lazy day), I made a mockup of how I’d love for the final LandFall book to look.
I will be pushing for this to be a 750 copy selling hardcover from the outset, which sounds...daunting...but I won’t be launching the campaign until I know I can get it done. I have some special plans for it.
You can check out LandFall here ---->;;;;;;;; https://www.inkshares.com/books/landfall
CORE - You might be wondering ’What is this CORE you speak of?’
Well that’s a pretty good question actually, and one to which the answer is changing all the time. At it’s core (I’m sorry), it’s the story I threw into the Nerdist video game contest on a whim a couple of weeks ago. It’s a really small nucleus of an idea, which is why I put such a long funding time on it (it currently has 346 days remaining), so that I have time to, y’know, work out the whole story and write the damn thing...lol
And I have been working it out. I’ve got several characters in place, and a beginning and an end that I’m happy with. Now to just work out the pesky middle...the middle is always a problem.
But, since I have to finish Ghosts, and all chances of winning the Nerdist comp vanished almost instantly, the pressure is off a bit on this one for now, however if you want to check it out you can do so here ---->;;;;;;;; https://www.inkshares.com/books/core
Oh and here’s the (very, very) temporary cover for it.
So yeah, that’s the state of things as they are right now. I’ll do my best to not leave it another 3 months before an update.
Until next time.
So hey, guys. How was your week?
The final manuscript has been approved with Girl Friday Productions!
I even learned what a Flueron is recently.
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I choose the Illuminati Eye triangle... because they area always watching.
Tinfoil hat aside: I’ll be at Wizard World in Chicago August 18th thru 21 with a booth. More details on that coming soon.
I have more art from Lizzy Perez! This one is a bit more laid back, Mike and the crew playing some games after a night of demon hunting
This scene directly ties into an Anthology I am part of with the character Akira. You can learn more about the Too Many Controllers in the current Nerdist contest by clicking right: Here
Lastly, there is one final... final thing: If you are following this book and haven’t dived in yet. Here it is. The last chance to be entered into one of 7 raffles for a demon hunter kits, tarot cards, and artwork. We need... 8 more people!
So call your friends! The Angels are coming! The end is nigh!!!
