Update and Some Random Thoughts

For the last couple weeks I’ve been in the editing process for the sequel of The Fifth World. The story has come together and I finally decided on an ending and foreshadowing for the third book. It will probably be a 4 book series. My hope is each will be able to stand on its own so that a reader who picks up the sequel won’t be lost.

While politics, history, government, and space travel has been a lot of fun, I am thinking of switching to less intellectually heavy themes. Right now I am developing an outline for a military Sci-Fi novel set on near future Earth, which will be more of a comedy and action type story, in other words a bit more “fun” than post-apocalyptic.

I also want to do a series that is not necessarily a group of novels, but a group of shorter works perhaps novellas (50-150 pages). It would also be a bit more character-driven but have some of the themes I’ve used in the past. It is in it’s early stages but I think it’d be a great way to offer a smaller product for readers and allow me to put more of my writing out there quicker.

Also, I’ve been writing a lot of book reviews lately and have come to realize maybe I’m not going about it the right way. I’m no literary critic. After all, I’ve only released one book and lack any background in literary history, or literature in general. My own writing still has flaws that need work. Hence, it is a little pretentious of me to be giving book reviews for other authors that have been at it a lot longer than I have.

I hope that it’s clear in the reviews that it is just my opinion as a reader, not an expert analysis. However, to avoid being rude I am going to stop posting negative reviews. From now on the old adage “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all” will apply to all reviews. There will be one exception: I love talking about the classics and so I will keep giving full opinions on those.

In the future I also want to focus on lesser known titles and authors. In fact, if there is a way to get a list of small press, or self-published titles I would prefer to draw more attention to those. The highly-touted big press titles don’t need another person giving a review. They get thousands anyway.

That’s all I got for now.

Jacob

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