Update…

So I finished the long overdue follow-up to “White Sands, Red Steel,” and sent it over to the publishers. It’s in the queue for a developmental edit and based on what I have to change (a little or a lot) it’ll go onto the next round of edits.

 

Title is “Savage.” Back in the day, I did a search on Amazon to see how many books there were with the same title. Turns out there weren’t that many. Today however, there are a few more (le grunt). But that’s okay, I don’t mind.

 

Next up, is book 6 of 131 Days.

 

Long overdue, but if you read the books and followed my posts—or even emailed me direct—you know that the series was delayed by a lack of sales. Sales improved when the series went to audio, which is good, so we’ll see how book 6 does. How well it does is the big unknown here, and will greatly affect how quickly book 7 goes into production, and whether or not I bring the series to a close sooner rather than later.

 

How many books are left in the “131 Days” series? Unknown at this point. Depends on sales. If sales are good, I can take my time with this thing and finish it in perhaps a few books…. If sales are poor it’ll mean scrambling to get the series done sooner, so I can move onto something else. Ideally, at least three more books… but it could be longer.

 

As always, if you’re a fan of “White Sands, Red Steel” or the “131 Days” series then spread the word. Recommend it to folks who you think might like it. I don’t advertise much, if at all these days, which makes word of mouth even more important. If you like the books that, is.

 

So… “Savage” is in the water.

 

Book 6 of 131 Days will get started shortly, after I read the books over again (won’t take long).

 

After that, I’m not sure. I was planning to do an “evening” project, where I do a thousand words at least a day, four or five times a week. I’ve tried splitting my time between two different genres before and it hasn’t work out well. I might try it again, just in case “Savage” and 131 book 6 flop upon release. We’ll see.

 

What might that evening project be? No idea. I would like to finish off Isosceles Moon, however, and repackage the first two novellas with the third book, to make a bigger single volume. I think my biggest mistake with the IM stories was to write them as novellas. The novellas didn’t sell very well for me. It’s been a long time as well so I don’t think (and I hope) it won’t be too much of an issue for folks who have read the first two books. Sales wise, it’s a better wager to do this, especially with audio being so huge these days.

 

So, do a third Isosceles Moon book, to bring closure to that story.

 

After that, well, I don’t want to think that far ahead. I’m a fantasy writer, heroic fantasy (or “grimdark” I think might be closer), who happens to also write horror stories and dabble in a few other sub-genres (“Weird Westerns” comes to mind).  These are the titles on my list of things to do…

131 Days (2 or 3 books, depending on sales)

Breeds 4

Zombie story 1 (not MM but maybe a side character—I’m thinking of Anna Hajek, the “Frying Pan Lady” from the first MM prequel book.)

Zombie story 2 (not MM but set in the MM world)

Weird Western (not so weird as the Majestic 311 but more horror oriented)

Troll Hunter follow-up/standalone

Heroic fantasy book ( not “131 Days” or “He-Dog” related. At least one or two of these.)

Standalone horror books (2)

Crime fiction (1)

Pirate story (only if I’m financially well off and can take the chance on writing the thing)

 

All in all, a good 5 years’ worth of work, if I get to write them all. And while working on those stories, I hope to have a few more ideas for whatever. You’ve no doubt noticed there’s no MM8 planned. I’ve mentioned this before, after 9 MM books (two prequels plus 7 regular novels) and one short story, I kinda like to leave Gus where he is right now. That might change if I get a really good idea for an 8th book, (or if everything flops and I need the cash), but I hope I don’t have to….

MM Movie news… none that I can share, sorry. If/when I have news I can share, you can believe I’ll be posting it asap).

That’s it . You’re all caught up.

As always, thank you for reading everyone…

 

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