A Trail of Publishing - Part 2
The year is 2014. I’ve had two novels and four novellas published. (all still available in print or ebook format, by the way.)
The publisher came to me in 2013, looked at my two fantasy novels, and asked: “What happens next?”
I re-read “The Dark Lady,” and from that tale of a young girl in peril created “Dark Days,” which was published in May of 2014, and “Dark Knights,” published in August 2014. This took a story that already had a sort of conclusion, and carried that tale to a more satisfactory ending. As long as enough characters are still alive, including the main protagonists, this works.
Meanwhile, back in January of 2014, the publisher gathered up the first three Housetrap Chronicles novellas, “Housetrap,” “Dial M for Mudder,” and “House on Hollow Hill,” and put them together in a novel-length paperback format under the title “The Housetrap Chronicles, Volume 1.”
Two more Housetrap novellas came out later that year, “Murder in the Rouge Mort” in May 2014 and “The Treasure of the Sarah Madder” in October 2014. These were joined by “Hounds of Basalt Ville” which arrived back in November 2013 and were issued in a second print volume titled, “The Housetrap Chronicles, Volume 2 which arrived in December 2014.”
Next, for a change of pace I came up with a plot about a modern married couple, in the midst of an argument, who are sent into a Dark Age setting in an alternate universe and dispatched on a dangerous quest. Had a lot of fun writing this but decided it could safely stand-alone instead of carrying on with the madness. This was published in June of 2015 as “Alex in Wanderland.”
I went back to “The Queen’s Pawn” which I’d enjoyed writing and seriously abusing the main character, and set about making it into a trilogy. “The Queen’s Man” was published in September 2015.
Another Housetrap Chronicles novella, “Murder on the Disoriented Express,” came out in September 2015 followed by “Menagerie à Trois” in November 2015. It’s not that I’m writing one of these in two months, it’s just that the publisher sits on them until she can work them in to the schedule. (These may eventually see paperback daylight now the ninth "Silence of the Sands" was published in 2020,)
I went back to the world of “The Queen’s Pawn” with a final episode, “The Queen’s Game” which came out in August of 2016. Another trilogy brought to a conclusion, sort of.
Next time, a side trip with a different publisher.
The publisher came to me in 2013, looked at my two fantasy novels, and asked: “What happens next?”
I re-read “The Dark Lady,” and from that tale of a young girl in peril created “Dark Days,” which was published in May of 2014, and “Dark Knights,” published in August 2014. This took a story that already had a sort of conclusion, and carried that tale to a more satisfactory ending. As long as enough characters are still alive, including the main protagonists, this works.
Meanwhile, back in January of 2014, the publisher gathered up the first three Housetrap Chronicles novellas, “Housetrap,” “Dial M for Mudder,” and “House on Hollow Hill,” and put them together in a novel-length paperback format under the title “The Housetrap Chronicles, Volume 1.”
Two more Housetrap novellas came out later that year, “Murder in the Rouge Mort” in May 2014 and “The Treasure of the Sarah Madder” in October 2014. These were joined by “Hounds of Basalt Ville” which arrived back in November 2013 and were issued in a second print volume titled, “The Housetrap Chronicles, Volume 2 which arrived in December 2014.”
Next, for a change of pace I came up with a plot about a modern married couple, in the midst of an argument, who are sent into a Dark Age setting in an alternate universe and dispatched on a dangerous quest. Had a lot of fun writing this but decided it could safely stand-alone instead of carrying on with the madness. This was published in June of 2015 as “Alex in Wanderland.”
I went back to “The Queen’s Pawn” which I’d enjoyed writing and seriously abusing the main character, and set about making it into a trilogy. “The Queen’s Man” was published in September 2015.
Another Housetrap Chronicles novella, “Murder on the Disoriented Express,” came out in September 2015 followed by “Menagerie à Trois” in November 2015. It’s not that I’m writing one of these in two months, it’s just that the publisher sits on them until she can work them in to the schedule. (These may eventually see paperback daylight now the ninth "Silence of the Sands" was published in 2020,)
I went back to the world of “The Queen’s Pawn” with a final episode, “The Queen’s Game” which came out in August of 2016. Another trilogy brought to a conclusion, sort of.
Next time, a side trip with a different publisher.
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