The Unfolding Journey

Greetings from the Dyslexic Author,

It's been a spell since my last post. My apologies, but my work/life balance is slightly out of kilter as things have been very busy. 

Aside from my day job, things are happening on the writing side. This week brought some very cool opportunities that are going to be simply awesome, but before I get into some of those details, let me get everyone up to speed on Secret of the Crystal II.

The Forge will be receiving an official release date the first of the week. The editing and production have completed on this second installment. I was informed that I may still be able to get a release in late September.  This would be great and allows my schedule to be on track. Look for that announcement Monday or Tuesday.

Destiny (Secret of the Crystal III), is in editing and should be complete with that phase in a few weeks. No rush on this one as this has been a sore spot with me. As a result of the latest editing concerns, I have enlisted a team of reviewers which are finding the grammatical errors and looking for story inconsistencies.  This has already proven to be a very effective complement to any editing phase. Thank you team! You are such a great help. 

Illustrations will be started in the next few weeks for Destiny as well. Larkin Livesay, Jr of Livesay GRAFIX will be my illustrator, we have all been enjoying his craft in book 1 & 2. They are just as awesome and book 3 should be interesting to say the least. Larkin, I'll be challenging your ability on this one ;-)  Stay tuned for more on this later...

Currently, I will be launching this third and final installment of the first three November 29th of this year.  

I will be putting together a limited edition gift pack when all three are released. Working on a box set in paperback and you will be able to find the complete series in one massive eBook sometime in December.  I'm also thinking of the idea of created an Audio version of Secret of the Crystal as there has been some requests.  I think an audio version would be great. 

Now for some really great news. This week, I recorded a pod cast interview with Eat Sleep Write, hosted by Adam Scull. If you don't know who Adam is, you can look his bio up on the Eat Sleep Write website, but he was one of the premier photographers for Studio 54 in the 70's. He also worked for the Washington Post and was assigned to photograph the stars on the red carpet. Needless to say, this interview became reality this week and has been posted on his website as well as syndicated to over 30 channels, including iTunes. You can download at this from the link above or via iTunes. Subscribe and listen to other pod cast interviews with other authors, these are all very interesting.

Why do I need to subscribe you ask? Because you will be hearing more pod cast interviews with me soon. We are working on putting together an author's panel to discuss various Science Fiction topics. Stay tuned for the announcement on who will be on the panel and the first topic in the next couple of weeks... you won't be disappointed.

... and you thought that was the big news... well, there's more! I can't go into many details but imagine reading Secret of the Crystal on your favorite notepad to background music and an ambiance as you read, something like an entire movie track for books. This gives the book a wonderful depth as you read... Well, it looks like you will be able to enjoy this soon and I'll share more when I can.

It's been a phenomenal week and I wrap it up with another chapter completion for Forgotten Legacy (Secret of the Crystal IV). Chapter 9 is competed and will be titled "General Quarters", from the chapter title, you might imagine some of the action.

I'll post another excerpt a little later to give you all a tastes to what's coming. Forgotten Legacy should be available on Amazon after the first of the year.

Well, it's time to begin chapter 10. I look forward to another great week and I'll talk to you all soon.

From the author's chair,
Brian K. Larson
the Dyslexic Author