One might expect I’d do little work through the holiday season. It’s a time of merriment and social niceties and parties and such, yeah? Not me! I labored. In addition to a significant re-write of the roadmap/synopsis of the second half of the book (fixing some screwy chronologies, mostly, but also updating notes that haven’t
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Between the power system failure, sudden trips for work, a move, and a generally heavy workload, progress lately has been intermittent. Accordingly, I have decided to post a preview of one of the early chapters of the second book here, to prove it exists and give readers a hint of what’s coming. If you have
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I did good work while traveling in Japan… right up until my laptop died. After a few weeks in the shop, it’s back and I can finally write again. Unfortunate setback, but it could have been worse. You don’t want to muck around with faulty power and sensitive DC electronics. Createspace has finalized its union
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It’s been a busy summer. I’ve moved for a new job which entails a lot of travel, but still found some time to write. Seven chapters of the second book are ‘complete’ (scare quotes because revision is always possible). I’m in the middle of Ch. 8, but want to hash out some chronology/plot issues before
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Guest article by Michelle Moore – Composer and Musician, and fan of The Sindathi Twilight Trilogy Reviewers and readers alike recognize that Book I of the Sindathi Twilight Trilogy fires an opening salvo in the battle to assume a position as a potential heir to that incredibly successful fantasy television series that made household names of
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Kirkus let me know this week that the review of The Mountain Throne was selected for inclusion in their mid-march issue of Kirkus Reviews. This means it will be circulated to about 5,000 industry professionals, an honor given to less than 10% of their indie titles. I don’t have great hopes for this (it will
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The Mountain Throne’s first professional critical review came out this week, and it’s positive! You can find it here. The summary line reads, “This striking tale whips up a fresh storm in familiar fantasy territory,” which I translated as “good and not too weird.” That’s a good place to be for a new author. It
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Pages for The Mountain Throne were established at each of these locations faster than expected. There are a handful of formatting errors that seem to have occurred when the data was transferred between systems (e.g. the editor for this book is not the same as the Nebraskan Goodreads author listed on that page; it’s a
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Well, I’ve done it. I authorized The Mountain Throne for sale. The Amazon pages for print and ebook should be up sometime this week. Once that is done, I’ll need to set up a Goodreads page, but that’s less important. For now, the book is available here. Between you and me, this is the preferred
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I just finished re-reading The Mountain Throne and flagging all the edits I want to make, including to the Glossary. Here’s a picture, taken the next minute. You can see from all the Post-its there are many edits, but most are minor. There were a couple of formatting errors that apparently appeared when the document
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