Small Overdue Update Amidst a Busy Week

As the title of this post would suggest, it’s been a busy time for me. I’ve had to pick up a lot of slack at my day-job, leaving me with less time to write and provide my loving audience with updates.

For that, I apologize.

With so many projects in motion, I figured I would break them down one by one and provide you with brief little updates on what’s going on.

Kholvaria (Part Two of the Color of Water and Sky)

Lots of progress has been made on my draft to Kholvaria, the second part of the planned four-part series, the Color of Water and Sky. I have now gone through and edited it all to a point where I am satisfied. I have even developed the back title blurb for the book, with some help from you guys.

If you read my post from a few weeks ago, you’ll recall that after editing my draft one and a half times through, that draft was strangely longer than my original draft. It originally started at 137,068 words and grew to 140,505 words. Today I’m here to tell you that the same strange phenomenon has taken place yet again. Instead of getting shorter with more edits, the book has actually gotten longer. The final count comes to 140,791. That’s 3,723 words longer than where it started.

Weird.

Now I’m just waiting on cover art to come through. Once it’s done, I’ll send the book off to my beta-readers. These are people who read through my book and mark it up, catching any small errors I may have missed (such as spelling, format or grammatical issues). I have two readers lined up, though I’m looking for a third. Consider this an offer: if anyone wants to lend a hand and receive a free copy of Kholvaria, leave a comment in the comments section. You will be required to read and edit the book and mail it back to me (I will pay for all the postage). You will get a free book in return.

Expect some upcoming promotional material and perhaps another interview coming soon.

Veznek (Part Three of the Color of Water and Sky)

I’ll admit, I haven’t touched this as much as I’d like. Progress on Veznek has been slow. For the longest time, I was working on a more difficult, slower part of the story and was struggling to figure out how to tell the story.

But that’s behind me now and I have no excuse apart from my own motivation. I am now working on a rather exciting part. I would go so far as to call it the single most eventful chapter in the entire series so far. So much happens from a character standpoint, a plot standpoint and a massive geo-political standpoint. It’s been a blast to write this chapter, but I just haven’t had the time to dig in. I have not touched it since February 21st. But alas, now that my editing of Kholvaria is complete, I will have much more time to finish this amazing chapter.

Overall, I’m probably about 1/3 of the way finished with the rough draft.

Cassidy (The Spinoff to the Color of Water and Sky)

Cassidy is my black sheep. I have very strict rules when it comes to working on this project. Mainly, I do not allow myself to work on it when I am at home. This is exclusively meant to be a commuter project. So when I say I’ve been running to work much more than I used to, that should cue you into the fact that I haven’t touched it much in the last month.

Yesterday I managed to write a bit of it, a rather exciting chapter in fact, but I have not put much down. It’s strange. There was a time when Cassidy was coming along faster than any of my other projects. But now it seems to be the slowest.

At this stage, I still predict Cassidy will be finished a bit ahead of Veznek, though I am thinking I will hold off its release until after Veznek is out. Tentatively, I plan to release both Veznek and Cassidy sometime in 2018, ideally only about a month apart. All of this is potentially subject to change, but that’s the plan as of now.

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