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February 3, 2015
Writing updates
Sorry that I haven’t been updating recently. Been busy trying to get some of our stories finished (and have been failing). Hopefully soon. I’ve also been really active in my search for a 9 to 5 job that will allow me to continue writing. I’ll try to be better with updates and releasing information about our stories. The first Emerge is almost ready for our beta readers. Derek should be done soon. I’m nearing completion of a first draft of another story as well, one that I’m working with Tony Healey on.
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January 1, 2015
Happy New Year
This past year was an interesting one for me. It was filled with many ups and downs. For the most part my writing was an up. Releasing my first book with Derek was the best moment of the year for me. Then to finish a short story set in that world. For the most part we’ve received positive feedback on both.
During the year I’ve found Derek and I had times that we got a lot of writing done and periods that we fell behind our goals. We have so many different ideas for stories that the biggest goal of the year for me will be to be more consistent.
The next year I hope to release more than we did this year. We should have another short for release soon. Then the first story in what we are calling our Paragon Universe, Emerge: Cataclysm. And the follow up to Aiden, Mason, should be out this year as well. I’m also working with Tony Healey on his Broken Stars series. That will be out this year as well. If I can get more I will try. I’m still learning what works and doesn’t work. My process is continually evolving. So we’ll see.
Here’s to a good year in writing, reading and everything else.
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December 18, 2014
Jeremiah is free and Aiden price reduced for a limited time
I guess I should have waited just one more day. This morning Amazon reduced the price of Jeremiah to free. You can now get it free everywhere it’s available. Also to celebrate this. I reduced the price of Aiden to .99 for the rest of the year. I’ll raise the price on January 1st. 
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December 17, 2014
Jeremiah
Sorry I haven’t updated in a while. I’ve been waiting and waiting for Amazon to lower the price of Jeremiah since we released it last month. It hasn’t happened. You can however get it at these places for free:
And at Amazon as of this posting still .99
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Jeremiah Recently updated !
Sorry I haven’t updated in a while. I’ve been waiting and waiting for Amazon to lower the price of Jeremiah since we released it last month. It hasn’t happened. You can however get it at these places for free:
And at Amazon as of this posting still .99
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November 27, 2014
Jeremiah and a Happy Thanksgiving
Sorry I didn’t post last week. I was busy with several other things. And hoping for and receiving Jeremiah. We published it this weekend. It’s currently available on Kobo, and Smashwords for free. You can also read it on Wattpad. Currently Amazon hasn’t price matched it. I’m waiting patiently for them to make it free. So you can enjoy an introductory tale in the Cretun Chronicles.
I might miss next week to (I’ll try not too. But I have finally got my copy of Dragon Age: Inquisition. It took forever for Amazon to get it to me. I imagine that I’ll be playing that a lot. Love the series.
And Happy Thanksgiving!
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Jeremiah and a Happy Thanksgiving Recently updated !
Sorry I didn’t post last week. I was busy with several other things. And hoping for and receiving Jeremiah. We published it this weekend. It’s currently available on Kobo, and Smashwords for free. You can also read it on Wattpad. Currently Amazon hasn’t price matched it. I’m waiting patiently for them to make it free. So you can enjoy an introductory tale in the Cretun Chronicles.
I might miss next week to (I’ll try not too. But I have finally got my copy of Dragon Age: Inquisition. It took forever for Amazon to get it to me. I imagine that I’ll be playing that a lot. Love the series.
And Happy Thanksgiving!
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November 12, 2014
Top Ten list for Dragon Age Companions
With the release of Dragon Age Inquisition next week I wanted to do a list about it. DAI is the third game in the series. I highly recommend the previous two games and the novels. I decided to rank my favorite companions and then my least favorite in the first two games.
Top Ten
Leliana
Morrigan
Varic
Valanna
Isabela
Oghren
Sten
Tallis
Nathaniel
Zevran
Ariane
Bottom Ten
Aveline
Dog
Secret Companion
Fenris
Anders (DA2)
Carver
Justice
Merrill
Jerrik
Sigrun
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November 11, 2014
Veterans Day
Happy Veterans Day to my fellow Vets. Thank you to those who served. I am grateful for your sacrifice. Being a Vet myself means a lot. I know at times I’ve complained about the military. But it helped me grow as a person.
I thought I’d share an idea that I had, but most likely won’t ever get to do and if I do it will be a while. I don’t have the knowledge or the influence to pull it all (at least I don’t think so). So as writer and ever as a reader, I thought it would be cool to have a series that is several books long and each book is wrote by a different author. I know something like this has been done. But I thought it would be cool if it was all released at the same time. So you could sit down and read a whole series right away. It would be difficult to set this up. You’d need authors to get together figure out the story and stuff. And an editor willing to make sure the writers don’t mess it up. It would be interesting to see this done with a fun fantasy or science fiction world. How each writer does it. How the world and characters grow in each book.
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November 5, 2014
NaNoWriMo
Happy National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and Movember. This year I decided not to attempt to write a novel in a month. I tried last year and failed. It was to be expected. But I wanted to wish all the people attempting this year good luck. I hope some great books are wrote.
I decided to work on the novel I started last year and failed to complete. I’m doing a total rewrite of it. Derek wrote a great outline last for the story, and I didn’t do it justice last year. My story lacked depth, and details in the world. I’ve already fixed much of that.
This is the most comprehensive rewrite I’ve ever done. So much so that it’s tough to call it just a rewrite. I’m using what I did last year as a super detailed outline and building from it. I’m not using any of the actual writing I did last year. This is the first time I’ve done that with a story. It’s going well. I love the new draft so much more. I changed the setting of the world as well. It’s a fantasy story with Elves, Dwarfs, Vampires and Humans. It has magic, and all that stuff. But it also has technological. It’s a steam punk type world. At least that is what I’m trying to do with it. So far I”m loving it.
Well good luck to my fellow writers.
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