Monthly Archives: February 2013

Writing, Zombies Ate My Mom

The Order Of Things

I had planned to have Fragments out toward the middle to end of March, but that’s not going to happen. It’s one hundred twelve thousand words, and it’s taking longer to edit than I planned for. It will also take longer to publish. I should be finishing up my first edit of it this weekend, and it will go out to beta readers early next week. If it’s awesome, and everything else goes well it won’t be long after that before it’s done. If it’s not awesome, well, I don’t want to talk about that.

In the meantime, I don’t want to leave you empty handed. I think I can squeeze the second Zombies book out, now called Zombies Bought The Farm, before the end of March. It will go to a mostly different set of beta readers, and is only about one fifth the length, so I might be able to get it published before Fragments comes back from its beta readers.

In other news, as soon as I finish my edit of Fragments, which should line up nicely with the completion of the first draft of Grim Repo 2, I’ll start work on the third book of A Wizard’s Work. I’m itching to get started on it.

A Tower Without Doors, Fragments

A Tower Without Doors on Apple, and other things

A Tower Without Doors made it onto the iBookStore today, which is awesome. It’s the first one I’ve uploaded directly, and it means that Apple doesn’t hate the ePub that StoryBox generates.

One of the “other things” is that Minders is near the end of it’s first draft. I might finish it this weekend, or, more likely, on Monday. It’s another departure, for me, from the fantasy work that I really want to be doing, but it just sort of showed up and said, “Write me now!” I couldn’t exactly refuse.

Another of the “other things” is that I’m working on the first edit for Fragments (for real this time). I hope to be done with that next week, and then I’ll send it out to my Tell-Me-Where-It-Sucks crew. If all goes well and it doesn’t suck, I’m estimating the end of March for its release date. Far too long, really. I’ll get the next one out quicker, I promise.

Cover reveal for Fragments will happen on the day I finish this first edit. Sort of a reward for getting it done.

A Tower Without Doors, Bookstore

A Tower Without Doors Released!

Few Dare Cross Its Shadow

The tower stood for centuries, a dark and forbidding figure against the horizon. Bremin toiled in its shadow his entire life, just like his father and grandfather. It did not appear the tower or Bremins’s life would ever change…

Until the day a tight-lipped stranger offered Bremin an enormous sum of money to guide him to the tower so that he may discover its mysteries.

Only, Bremin knows the tower’s power, and he fears what might befall them should they cross through the tower’s shadow.

A Tower Without Doors is a much-much-post-apocalyptic novella that turned out far different than I anticipated, as well as about twice as long. At first, I thought it would be a fantasy short story, and then things happened, as they usually do, and it became something else. It’s available in all the usual places right now (Apple should be along in a week or so – I’m going through them directly now, so I’m not sure how long that will take). If you want a paper copy, and you purchase from me, I’ll sign it and throw in the electronic versions for free!

There’s a quick preview on the book page.

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