TOILS AND SNARES: A Deserted Lands Novella is released

Well. Citing Scotty’s law of time estimates, I should have given myself 6 months extra to publish my ‘short’ novel, or novella, Toils and Snares. When I conceived this story, I remember thinking it would be about 20,000 words. For my word graph estimate I chose 22,222 words, because that’s how I do such things. With Straight Into Darkness I am aiming for 88,888.

BySeptember 2014 Toils and Snares had cracked 23K! And it kept growing. It was a much bigger story than I thought. The first complete...