"CASK" is Written - But Not Done.

     I have written my 19th book, it is titled "Cask" and is the 6th installment of the Nick Posh Thriller series. It spans a couple of months at the beginning of 1934 and ends right around the first week of March of that year. It takes place in Oklahoma, Illinois, New York, and up and down the Eastern coastline really -- then again, it also takes place in Scotland, England, and mentions Germany too!  Very international - very domestic. This one is a good one. I liked writing it.

    I think I started writing it in late May, so according to my blogs, it was May 26 - that's faster than I thought, actually. I will take another week to fluff and stuff it, and to make all the spacing corrections. I'll review it twice with my editing tools and see if I can catch all the mistakes before I send it up for publication. Then, after it's a printed book, I order a copy to review it as a book, to see if I can find any more mistakes.

    Over the next month, I plan to review all my books, if possible, and resubmit them with fewer errors. I hope I can do it correctly without screwing things up. If I can't, my readers will just have to look past all my boo-boos. I am not going to say I'm not human. I am all too human most of the time.

    This book, "Cask," was a challenging one to write; it presented issues that I tried to resolve in my head, but I'm sure I left a few loose ends. I just feel as if I have. I never know until someone points it out to me, and then I have to make a decision to change it or leave it - it just depends. I have been known to do both.

    Currently, before the fluff and stuff, the book has 74000 words, and is 34 chapters long. That's about what I expected. Now, when I go back through it, I'll add words and I'll create new paragraphs to bring things together. I'll add color, adjectives, and scenarios to make things pop - it typically adds another 10,000 words. I can't go too much further, as I've already created the cover - I don't want to have to recreate it. Most of my books are the same size for that reason.

    The next book I'll write will be a murder drama, not a mystery. It's more of a tragedy to be honest. The next Nick Posh book will be written at the top of the year, and will be titled "Amicus Curiae" or Friend of the Court.  I think it will be fun to write as well. Between the murder drama "Silent Bay" and "Amicus Curiae" will be a romance novel of sorts; a 12th Century novel to explore the history of the time, and add another Highland Romance novel to my collection. Woot!

    I think and I hope you will like "Cask," but like all the other books, I don't write to sell them. I write to write them. If they do sell, I'll be more than happy to thank anyone and everyone for that. But I write to write—to get the stories out of my head and onto the printed page, or onto Kindle. I like digital books too.  I hope you like it. It's always a weird and good feeling when you know it's about to be sent up to become a real, live book!

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