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Seriously, Three Books in a Year?

It’s hard to believe that I’ve only been an “official” author for less than a year (ten months in fact.) I say that but I’ve actually been writing all my life. I just never published any of it and I was too busy with “real work” to ever consider being a published author. I still have the illustrated adventure book (less than 12 pages) I wrote when I was three years old. Thanks mom for keeping it! And there’s the YA mystery series of four books I wrote in middle school–maybe I’ll redo them and release them one day.

Last year one of my book reviewers emailed me, worrying that I might have some kind of breakdown because she couldn’t wrap her mind around how I was able to write these two books like these in less than a year. For those who’ve read the books, they are provocative and a creation of some serious research. My initial response to her probably made her concerns even worse because I told her that I wrote Book Two before Book One. But no worries. I just write fast. I guess since I can’t drive fast with my New York lead-foot in Los Angeles (From a Speedsters Anonymous meeting: “My name is Austin and I am a speed demon”), I can at least write fast without any anxiety over tickets.

Also, the story had two years to percolate in my brain before I sat down at the local Coffee Bean every day until I had a first draft. As someone who has always been fascinated with the future, the catalyst for the series with all the politics, religion, technology, and conflict was simple: I’m a reporter and I’m transported over seventy years in the future. Write what you see.

So yes, there will be three new books this year for the After Eden Series. That’s what I get for not using my talent for 15 years. It’s in overdrive and will never be bottled up again.