The End of the Shadow Serial
Gone! Kaput! Skedaddled. But . . . until 31 Oct 2016 (Australian date and time, start of the day) the novel that replaced the serial The Narrung Sagas, Book I: The Journey of Shadow is available free (Smashwords). After that it reverts to normal price.
And the reason for this?
All the pestering from certain parties to put up the next book before Christmas. So, Book II of the Narrung Sagas: A Dragon Dream is expected to be complete and on the shelf (so to speak) before Christmas (touch wood). That also means that I’ve put the continuing WIP (The Third Moment) back on the back-burner and updated the release date to March 2017.
I bowed to pressure, but I have to say that book III will not be out before May 2017. There are other things on the cooker, other things to get done.
Not sure which will be done first yet, but there’s, hmmmm, let me see, the next ‘novella’ of short stories for adults (I have so many at the almost ready stage and so many new ideas and so many ideas bubbling away in the back of the thought detector), and then there’s a new idea for another neo-noir (but I might just write them and leave them until I can do a ‘collection’ of neo-noir – a book set of dark matter), and three more fantasy stories (unburdened, the dragon cave, and another one that I don’t really know what it’s about yet). There are more, of course, but that should get me through the next year. How many is that?
Novella (does that count as one WIP? Yep) One.
Neo-noir plus Two = Three.
Fantasy – plus Three = Six.
Whoa! Maybe I’ll settle for less than that; maybe five books a year, as I said at the start of this project.
That means: Third Moment, Book III Narrung Sagas, and the Three Fantasy. [And the anthology – can’t help myself!]
If I get the time I’ll still write the neo-noir, get them ready for the time when I decide to become a publisher, or get a publisher so I can put them under a name that isn’t the same as the YA stories. Maybe I’ll just keep them for myself, keep my dark side hidden. Naaaahhhh. Not this little black duck (or orange or green or blue – and yes, I’ve seen ducks that colour!).
Anyway, all this to tell you:
The Serial: The Journey of Shadow is gone, replaced by The Narrung Sagas, Book I: The Journey of Shadow – which is free until start of business (as in, the morning of) 31 Oct 2016 (Australian date and time).
