Big Ideas

Yesterday, we wrapped up our discussion of Rome's Evolution including the teaser for The Milk Run which was written before I actually wrote the novel. I had painted myself into a bit of a corner but it was a large and generous corner. At the end, we left Rome and Rei on their home world of Deucado and take up the mantle of the new generation, a grown-up Aason and Lupe.

Now we look to the future. You may find this a bit of bad news but it is for a good reason. I've really enjoyed writing Tales of the Vuduri over the last five years but it does eat up a lot of time. I found that many weekends, all of my writing time was eaten up by trying to create daily posts. I have a lot of stories left in me and a lot of big ideas and I have come to the conclusion that the only way I can get back into writing is to put this blog on pause for a while.

I will certainly finish out this year, Year Five, but then that's it for the foreseeable future. Over the next two weeks, I'll try and pull out the Big Ideas from The Milk Run so you can spot them in the narrative. But then that's it. As I said, I will hit the pause button. So what will I do instead?

As I have mentioned before, I have split off Part 1 of Rome's Revolution and rewritten it nearly completely as a standalone novel entitled Rebirth. I will do the same thing for Part 2 (Rebellion) and Part 3 (Redemption) and call this new series The Rome's Revolution Saga. Then I will record each of the 60,000 word short novels as audiobooks. I'll publish all three electronically and audibly simultaneously.

Finally, I will take all three novels, smush them back together and re-release Rome's Revolution as a three-part epic, similar to the current edition. I got permission from Audible to reuse the previously recorded portions for the mini-novels so there will be a super-sized audiobook for Rome's Revolution as well. I hope to finish all of this in 2018. I really want to move forward and get my body of work to Netflix. They are always looking for fresh, original material and I believe I need all these novels "in the can" before I approach Netflix or another streaming service or even an agent.

Once that process is launched, then what? Who knows? I am thinking of writing MASAL - The Robot War and The Vuduri Knight. I also want to write the series called The Immortals. Maybe something else will come to me by then completely off the beaten path? Stay tuned.