The peasants called it “The Storm.”
On a cold autumn morning seven years ago, the sky exploded with silent lightning. In its wake, everything changed.
Now the sun rises in the south, if it rises at all. Animals go mad. Crops ripen and die overnight. The Church – a body of miracle-workers who can heal the sick and walk through fire – warns that God’s final judgment is at hand. Read more →
It’s a question I ask daily with such fervor that it demands no less than three question marks, punctuation rules be damned!
The short version of the answer is simple. I’m still working on it.
The long version is… longer. Read more →
I started writing this book eleven years ago, but the setting has been a place I’ve known since I was ten years old. It was my first major writing project and stretched through the entirety of the aughts.
It grew to unmanageable lengths; first to 100,000 words, then 200,000 and beyond. (For the uninitiated: that’s way too long.) I made some modest cuts, trimming the last quarter or so of the book and pushing it into a second book, leaving me with a 160,000 word novel. I then revised, taking the book to work with me and spending my lunch hours revising and rewriting. The process took about a year. Read more →
I’ve got some big updates.
First, I’m going to be incorporating an LLC to do all my writing business through. I’m tentatively planning on calling it “Lone Road Publishing.” Pretty much every book I publish from here on out (barring a zillion dollar advance offer from some giant publishing house) will be published under Lone Road. This is exciting because it lends an air of legitimacy to this whole endeavor that I really appreciate. It’s gonna have a standalone bank account. The whole enchilada. Pretty exciting. : )
Second, I have a final schedule and release plan for both Rebecca and Children. My original plan, to release them both at once, is right out, but they will be coming out within four months of each other.
Why do I sound so confident you ask? Just trust me, this is a plan I will be sticking to, at least as hard as any big publishing house would be sticking to theirs. This isn’t just me shooting in the dark; it’s a bona fide RELEASE SCHEDULE. Trust me. I have spreadsheets and everything.
So, here’s how it’ll play out:
Rebecca will be released late December 2012 / early January 2013. The rough draft will be done by the end of October.
Children will be released late April 2013.
I had really hoped to get Rebecca out earlier, but it just isn’t going to happen that way. I was too excited watching Alex develop, and didn’t have the mental fortitude to put time into Rebecca in the volumes I needed to. This schedule is an honest assessment of how much I can write each week, and I’ll be able to keep it. Wish it could be quicker… but at least it’s honest.
I’m really psyched about being able to put Children out so quickly after it though.
That’s it for now – time to put chilluns to bed!
Thanks for reading!
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