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Another Free Short Story & Updates On The Works In Progress
Hello there everyone. I hope you are doing well. I’m back again with another blog. I have some updates and yet another book giveaway, but let’s get started.
So what’s going on? Well this past week has been insane and I have been super busy. If you been following this blog a while you know I work in environmental science and geology, and jobs had been far and few between since the pandemic happened. But this week there was an avalanche of job opportunities and I was running back and forth to so many interviews and meetings. I had six interviews, and then family stuff on Friday so it was absolute chaos. And the chaos bothered me, because I could not work on any book stuff until Saturday.
Saturday was a free day. So at noon I sat down at my desk with some ice tea and started working on finalizing more of Once Upon of Time in Boston. It is really bugging me how long it is taking to get this out. I never had a short story / novella go through so many rewrites, expansions, and just take so long to get out there before this one. So I spent most of the day just working my way through polishing the final draft to perfection. And right now I am proud to say I am 75% done. And hopefully if I get a little bit of free time this upcoming week, it can finished as soon as next week. Which is exciting. I really want to get this out there for people to read.
And then there is the summer book giveaway.
I think, for the sake of father’s day, I will put an alien invasion tale on promotion this week. Why? My own dad loved aliens. I don’t think there was a genre he loved more than scifi alien tales. And he can’t be the only one. I’m sure there’s a lot more dads into the same stuff. So this week the free short story is On The Air with Mike Gypsy & Sacheana Crow. I’ll post the synopsis below.
The day started just as normal as any other for both Mike and Sacheana. The two start the day at their daily jobs as hosts of the radio show "On the Air." Things soon become strange when callers start asking about odd lights and monsters in the sky. Baffled by what they are hearing, the hosts piece together what's going on. But they have no idea of what they are about to confront what is right outside their door.
This short story will be FREE from June 16th to June 20th. Claim your Kindle copy @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VWCCH6
And that is what I have to share this week. I think there is going to be some real fun stuff soon. But no guarantees. Life can turn into complete chaos sometimes, like it did last week. And that can slow things down quite a bit. I hope you all have a good week!
So what’s going on? Well this past week has been insane and I have been super busy. If you been following this blog a while you know I work in environmental science and geology, and jobs had been far and few between since the pandemic happened. But this week there was an avalanche of job opportunities and I was running back and forth to so many interviews and meetings. I had six interviews, and then family stuff on Friday so it was absolute chaos. And the chaos bothered me, because I could not work on any book stuff until Saturday.
Saturday was a free day. So at noon I sat down at my desk with some ice tea and started working on finalizing more of Once Upon of Time in Boston. It is really bugging me how long it is taking to get this out. I never had a short story / novella go through so many rewrites, expansions, and just take so long to get out there before this one. So I spent most of the day just working my way through polishing the final draft to perfection. And right now I am proud to say I am 75% done. And hopefully if I get a little bit of free time this upcoming week, it can finished as soon as next week. Which is exciting. I really want to get this out there for people to read.
And then there is the summer book giveaway.
I think, for the sake of father’s day, I will put an alien invasion tale on promotion this week. Why? My own dad loved aliens. I don’t think there was a genre he loved more than scifi alien tales. And he can’t be the only one. I’m sure there’s a lot more dads into the same stuff. So this week the free short story is On The Air with Mike Gypsy & Sacheana Crow. I’ll post the synopsis below.
The day started just as normal as any other for both Mike and Sacheana. The two start the day at their daily jobs as hosts of the radio show "On the Air." Things soon become strange when callers start asking about odd lights and monsters in the sky. Baffled by what they are hearing, the hosts piece together what's going on. But they have no idea of what they are about to confront what is right outside their door.
This short story will be FREE from June 16th to June 20th. Claim your Kindle copy @ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B014VWCCH6
And that is what I have to share this week. I think there is going to be some real fun stuff soon. But no guarantees. Life can turn into complete chaos sometimes, like it did last week. And that can slow things down quite a bit. I hope you all have a good week!
A New Alice Story, Siren On Berry Ave Status, & Other Updates
Hello everyone. I hope you have all been well. I know it has been a few weeks since my previous blog, and there’s a good reason for that. Because the summer of weekly giveaways is over, I didn’t want to blog again until I had more to actually share. So now that I actually have some updates to share, I wanted to blog.
First off, I think the summer of free e story giveaways went okay. Seventy something people took advantage of the free short stories. And a couple people have actually left good reviews recently, and hopefully more will trickle in over time. So time will tell if it will boost my Goodreads and Amazon rating or not. But I’m glad that at least I know a couple people are enjoying my work.
Beyond that I have finally settled on a short to go through editing process and eventually to Kindle. It is another Alice story. It’s yet another tale of an Alice set in a dark Wonderland. This Alice is Alice Rosa. She’s a Brazilian Alice who fell into the world of Hatters and madness. It follows her as she tries to escort a prince away from the City of Clubs, while trying to keep her madness in check. It’s just been uploaded to Scribophile to see what Beta readers think of it. This one is a little more experimental as the lead suffers from mental illness, and I am curious what people will think. Hopefully the reactions will be good and the editing process will be short and will be on Kindle in some timely manner.
Then, the project, The Siren on Berry Ave is a work in process and I think I may have figured out how to tackle the project. The first story is up on Scribophile with very good reviews.
But I enjoyed the characters and the world so much that I wanted to do a lot more with it. I wanted to make a collection of stories with an overall arch like I did with The Last Witch, and then release them all at once. But after a couple months it’s not working. Where with The Last Witch, I wrote all the stories back to back in a number of months with a strong vision of what each one should be and how it should all end, that is not the case for Siren on Berry Ave. In fact I feel like I am forcing these stories to happen to meet a desired ending, instead of writing individual tales that would be fun on their own.
So I am going to change my plan. I am not going to wait months or years for the right ideas to come to me for a collection with an appropriate underlying story. Instead, I am going to take my time and release them one at a time and hope readers will one day want to follow these shorts as they are written opposed to the all at once approach I wanted to do originally. Right now I have three sequel stories written. Two are not on par with original tale, but the third is good enough. That tale is called The Scarabs from Tullah. So right now, since the reviews are so good on
The Siren on Berry Ave, I hope to finish editing that in the near future. And The Scarabs from Tullah will be typed off out of the notebook it currently sits in and will be uploaded to Scribophile for Beta readers to review as well. That is the status of the whole project right now. I should have just published the original story months ago, but I over complicated things thinking I could make it part of something grander and now here I am again at square one. I apologize more that.
Also there’s some news about Palm’s Inn. I am currently revising the book. Seeing how I self-published it so young, I wanted to really go through it and clean it up. And I am about a third through it now. Every Sunday I am updating the draft on KDP with the revisions finished up until that point. And so far, aside from some small typos and awkward sentence structures it really wasn’t as rough of a draft as I was expecting. So it’s not as daunting as I would have suspected. Hopefully that will be completely revised in the near future.
And that is all I have to share this week. Hopefully some I’ll have new stuff in the future. But that is in works right now. I hope you all have a good week, and I will be blogging again when I have more to share.
First off, I think the summer of free e story giveaways went okay. Seventy something people took advantage of the free short stories. And a couple people have actually left good reviews recently, and hopefully more will trickle in over time. So time will tell if it will boost my Goodreads and Amazon rating or not. But I’m glad that at least I know a couple people are enjoying my work.
Beyond that I have finally settled on a short to go through editing process and eventually to Kindle. It is another Alice story. It’s yet another tale of an Alice set in a dark Wonderland. This Alice is Alice Rosa. She’s a Brazilian Alice who fell into the world of Hatters and madness. It follows her as she tries to escort a prince away from the City of Clubs, while trying to keep her madness in check. It’s just been uploaded to Scribophile to see what Beta readers think of it. This one is a little more experimental as the lead suffers from mental illness, and I am curious what people will think. Hopefully the reactions will be good and the editing process will be short and will be on Kindle in some timely manner.
Then, the project, The Siren on Berry Ave is a work in process and I think I may have figured out how to tackle the project. The first story is up on Scribophile with very good reviews.
But I enjoyed the characters and the world so much that I wanted to do a lot more with it. I wanted to make a collection of stories with an overall arch like I did with The Last Witch, and then release them all at once. But after a couple months it’s not working. Where with The Last Witch, I wrote all the stories back to back in a number of months with a strong vision of what each one should be and how it should all end, that is not the case for Siren on Berry Ave. In fact I feel like I am forcing these stories to happen to meet a desired ending, instead of writing individual tales that would be fun on their own.
So I am going to change my plan. I am not going to wait months or years for the right ideas to come to me for a collection with an appropriate underlying story. Instead, I am going to take my time and release them one at a time and hope readers will one day want to follow these shorts as they are written opposed to the all at once approach I wanted to do originally. Right now I have three sequel stories written. Two are not on par with original tale, but the third is good enough. That tale is called The Scarabs from Tullah. So right now, since the reviews are so good on
The Siren on Berry Ave, I hope to finish editing that in the near future. And The Scarabs from Tullah will be typed off out of the notebook it currently sits in and will be uploaded to Scribophile for Beta readers to review as well. That is the status of the whole project right now. I should have just published the original story months ago, but I over complicated things thinking I could make it part of something grander and now here I am again at square one. I apologize more that.
Also there’s some news about Palm’s Inn. I am currently revising the book. Seeing how I self-published it so young, I wanted to really go through it and clean it up. And I am about a third through it now. Every Sunday I am updating the draft on KDP with the revisions finished up until that point. And so far, aside from some small typos and awkward sentence structures it really wasn’t as rough of a draft as I was expecting. So it’s not as daunting as I would have suspected. Hopefully that will be completely revised in the near future.
And that is all I have to share this week. Hopefully some I’ll have new stuff in the future. But that is in works right now. I hope you all have a good week, and I will be blogging again when I have more to share.
