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Interview time!

At Indie Bookfest a couple of weeks ago, I sat down with the Hanging With show. If you’ve been following me long enough, you might remember that my first ever interview was with the Hanging With show, back in 2015.

We only get better, the pair of us.

Check it out here.

Getting started.

School started last week, which means I started, too. Last Monday was day one of Blood Bound, and today is day one of Bones of Earth.

Blood Bound

5089 / 95000 (5.36%) ***

Bones of Earth
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 3

0 / 95000 (0.00%)

Yes, the wordcounter has no words in it yet. Don’t worry! They’re coming.

Blood Bound is already being fun. Have a bit (our set up is that Daniel, our main character, is the bartender in a club that caters to vampires and humans. So they offered what’s...

New Year, who dis?

I think I’ve used this title before. But that’s okay. It works.

No, it’s not really a new year. However, it is, because today is the day that Florida kids go back to school.

Which means that today is the day I start a new book –my long awaited romantic suspense Blood Bound. (aka the BDSM vampire book)

Now, with the insanity of everything this summer, and the book that would not end with Forged in Fire, I didn’t have much of a break to plan out the Fall book. I didn’t get a lot of the groundwo...

Indie Book Fest!

This past Thursday we headed off to Indie Bookfest! It’s a fun event for readers and writers and people in the publishing industry, and this is my second year doing it (you may remember me talking about last year’s event — I got food poisoning?) We were in the Caribe Royale hotel this year, and The Schechters took the extra precaution of bringing all our own food for the weekend. (Not even kidding here.)

Thursday night started with a Bar Hop at Disney Springs. Our group went to Raglan Road, w...

That’s a draft!

Forged in Fire
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 2

116522 / 95000 (122.65%)

Work in Progress: Forged in Fire, week twenty-eight

Forged in Fire
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 2

109595 / 95000 (115.36%) This is a MONSTER book. And will probably top out at about 115K. Maybe a bit more. There are, I think, about two and a half chapters left. I’m going to do my best to have it done by Wednesday, so watch this space (or any of my other social media really) for updates. Draft by August! Now, that puts me at publishing sometime in October. So I’m going to say now that I’ll have a tentative release date of October 15th. ...

Work in Progress: Forged in Fire, week twenty seven

Forged in Fire
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 2

98263 / 95000 (103.43%) This is the tome that does not end, and it goes on and on my friends… That’s how it feels, anyway. This one is going to be a monster — we’ll be north of 100K words when we’re done here.  There are, I think, another four chapters. Perhaps five once all is said and done. So we’ll finish at thirty-five chapters or thereabouts. (I’m working on thirty right now.) I was hoping to be further along than I am this week. But...

Work in Progress: Forged in Fire, week twenty-six

So CLOSE!!!

Forged in Fire
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 2

93439 / 95000 (98.36%) Rocks are falling. No one has died. Yet. Owyn is about to take on his Aspect and raise up his Attribute, , to borrow a concept from Roger Zelazny (if you haven’t read Zelazny’s novel Lords of Light, add it to your reading list.) It’s not finished yet, but it’s a lot closer than it was last week. I’ll probably be walking around Indie Bookfest with a manuscript of Forged in Fire under my arm, and a red pen som...

Work in Progress; Forged in Fire, week twenty five

Forged in Fire
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 2

88851 / 95000 (93.53%) I can see the end from here! There are, I think, perhaps five more chapters. Maybe six. I have to finish that part, then drop the rocks, then everyone has to recover from the rockfall before I drop yet more rocks. Then there’s the final black moment, and the end. Yeah, maybe six chapters. Which means that I have to admit it. Forged in Fire is not going to be done for Indie Bookfest. Right now, it’s looking like I’ll b...

Work in Progress: Forged in Fire, week twenty four (better late than never)

Forged in Fire
Heir to the Firstborn, Book 2

85398 / 95000 (89.89%) The weekly update is a little late this week. Looks like the book might be, too. I’m SO CLOSE,  though. There’s a chance I might have it done in time for Indie Bookfest. A slim chance, but it’s a chance. I know what the high points are for the rest of this book, and it appears that the character who I hadn’t decided if he was making it to the end will actually survive this book. No, I’m not telling you who! The big th...