Wow! Has It Been Eight Months?

I must say that I have been sadly remiss in my authorly duties.  2013 was a bit of a disaster for me as a writer.  I had a move and then I built out an office in my new place.  After lots and lots of visitors, I didn’t get much done on the keyboard and, of course, no blogs.  I’m unsure if anyone will read this post!

Anyway, I’ve still been writing.  The Brull novel, Warrior Mage is written and the cover done just this week.  I’ll have that published by the end of February in the usual places.

At the time of my last post, Moonstone was drafted.  I now have Sunstone drafted and am about 25% through Bloodstone.  Since the four War Stone novels have convergent points, I have to draft them all and have them go through a rewrite of some kind before I can even publish the first one.   I have the scenes outlined and then when I begin to write, the muse takes over.  Sunstone already will have to be rewritten to bring out a character that is only mentioned in passing.  But that makes for better books, I’m sure.  I’ll have a post on writing series in a few months (!) if I can get the blog moving along again.

Book sales have been limping along and unless new works come out, I fear self-published volumes tend to sink in the search engines.  I’ll have at least four new works out in 2014.  On my publishing schedule are Warrior Mage, Moonstone, Sunstone and Bloodstone as well as an anthology or two of my short stories.  Darkstone, the last of the War Stone books may linger for a few months and not come out in 2014.  We’ll see if I get held up like I did last year.

I’ve finished my first post in 2014.  My, my.  I hope there’s a lot more to come.