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April 6, 2020
Work in Progress: Bones of Earth
Bones of Earth
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 3
So Im going to call it. Bones of Earth will be a draft by the end of the week.
Which means you all get to see the cover!
[image error] (I really do like these trees.)Things are starting to settle down here. Im getting into a routine. Get up. Exercise (today was Zombies, Run! did 1.86 miles, saw four people and six cars total. None close up.) Shower, breakfast, then get to work.
Work today involves wrapping up Bones of Earth,...
March 30, 2020
Work in Progress: Bones of Earth
Bones of Earth
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 3
And, yet again, Im running over the amount of words that I thought it would take to tell the story. Bones of Earth has, I think, two chapters left. There might be a third chapter hiding in there, though. So it will be a total of thirty-two or thirty-three chapters. Well see how the words fall out.
Writing has been challenging this past week. Every time I think Ive figured out what were doing, something changes it....
March 23, 2020
Work in Progress: Bones of Earth
Bones of Earth
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 3
I just saw someone refer to this week as Week Two: Electric Boogaloo.
Maybe. Im not sure if were all that punchy yet. Some people might be. Im not.
Not yet, anyway.
If you missed it, I put Written in Water up as a free download until April 1st. And I finally got Worlds Begin fixed so that its free everywhere as well. Im working on Bones of Earth, and I need to tweak the scene that I wrote over the weekend. Its not...
March 20, 2020
Free for your social distancing reading
Things are really weird right now. And not in a happy, fun way. When all of us geeks said that we wanted to live in the future, we were thinking rocket cars and space travel, not global pandemics.
We meant Star Trek, guys! Not The Stand! And definitely NOT The Andromeda Strain!
Im reading the news, and trying to keep things normal for kids who know full well things are NOT normal. This was was supposed to have been Spring Break, and school was supposed to be back in on Monday. The theme parks...
March 16, 2020
Work in Progress: Bones of Earth
Bones of Earth
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 3
Today is day one of self-isolation. Which you might think means Yay, more writing done!
Umm no. Because today was to have been day two of Spring Break (day one was last Friday), and I now have three children at loose ends. (Yes, I said three. No, youre not misremembering. I only gave birth to one of them. Long story.)
School might resume on the 30th. Maybe. Or maybe not. Well see.
So right now, Im stealing some writing...
March 12, 2020
KeiserSupercon Postponed!!!
I just got the news that KeiserSupercon is being postponed due to concerns about COVID-19.
They are looking toward a summer date, and I will update as soon as I know when that will be.
March 10, 2020
Work in Progress: Bones of Earth
Bones of Earth
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 3
Things are coming along slowly but well. I’m thinking there are only a few chapters left in Bones of Earth, and I’ve started the synopsis for Wings of Air. Still thinking May or June for a release on Bones of Earth, but we’ll see.
My edits are done on Swords of Charlemagne, and Hidden Things is off a professional editor who is going to read the entire series and make sure everything agrees with everything else. And...
March 2, 2020
Work in Progress: Bones of Earth
Bones of Earth
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 3
I forgot to blog last week. Bad Liz. No Liz biscuit.
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. I can’t say much, other than… umm… BUSY! And no, it’s not writing related. Or RWA related.
Just… busy.
There’s been writing, though. And I’m starting to see the end to Bones of Earth. So I need to figure out what happens in Wings of Air, and quickly. So I’ll be getting on to that synopsis hopefully as soon as I finish my taxes. I’m...
February 17, 2020
Work in Progress: Bones of Earth. Also, An Announcement
Bones of Earth
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 3
Remember how last week I said that the writing was going really well?
Things almost immediately thereafter took a turn for the very weird, and the writing slowed down again. Not bad. Just weird, and I’m working on getting back into a rhythm of writing again. I’m trying not to fall behind again.
Which is going to be very interesting going forward, because I just filed the papers to run for the RWA Board as a Director at...
February 10, 2020
Work in Progress: Bones of Earth
Bones of Earth
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 3
Not gonna lie. I like those numbers. It was a good writing week. Best I’ve had since the year started, I think. Also a good editing week — I’ve finished edits on The Lady and the Sword, and tomorrow I’ll start on Ashes and Light. Once I’m done with my reread of Swords of Charlemagne, then I’m hiring an editor to go over all four books at once and make sure that everything is seamless. Then…
Well, we’ll see what happens...
