Touched up The Zone, and various thoughts

Re-read The Zone over the weekend, and re-submitted the text to Amazon to clear up a couple minor plot glitches, a couple mis-spellings that got past editing, and caught the use of ‘insure’ where ‘ensure’ was required. I also re-wrote a paragraph in Chapter One to make it clearer, and changed a word here or there for smoother reading. I also moved the cover artist’s logo to the front.

The Zone was a deeply satisfying book to write; while I enjoyed writing Sunstone most of all, The Zone let me express some pent-up feelings that had been bothering me for some years, and said expression put closure to the events.

Each book (or series-to me the Phantom Badgers are just one long book) has had a special meaning for me. Sunstone was a bucket list item of sorts: I have dreamed of writing a historical novel for decades, and while Sunstone is not quite a historical novel, it comes close.

Chains of Honor was a stab at an epic novel in which the story covers a vast, nation-spanning event; Dark Tide benefitted from the experience and became my truly ‘epic’ work (which is why it costs you $2.99: you don’t get epic on the cheap, bucko).

I wrote City of the Way not long after Desert Storm (as one reviewer cleverly noted); it started out as a rather negative work expressing my frustrations with the military, but mellowed into its present form during the re-writes.

The Payload-Rolling Hunger series are just a ‘fix’ to my zombie addiction, and my endless fascination with how such an event might transpire.

The Dream series started after reading several novels of gamers in a game setting. I literally thought “I could do that“, and so I did, with the third in the series chugging along to date. Dream was a fast, easy write that I figured would never make a sale, and it turned out to be my best-seller to date, along with Dream 2.

The Phantom Badgers and Chains of Honor represent my love of the fantasy genre and of world-building. I started writing those in the 1980s.

Just a few thoughts. I’m not very good at this blogging business.