Regolith Part 12: My Whirlwind Week

It (is or was) Friday, October 2nd, 10:05pm when I saw down to finally blog my author (or author my blog, your choice) this week or whenever I actually do them. My time changes are amusing to say the least. And my Jack Russell desperately WANTS (in her mind, NEEDS) the mud my mom just brought me.

Anyway, REGOLITH came out this past Wednesday, September 30th on Kindle and Amazon Print. I was astonished to see that it totals almost 200 pages LESS than Rising Seas. That... Weirds me out a little.

For anyone who has been following my progress over the last year with Regolith, you know that this was my more confident venture. I had one book under my belt that that point and was revving my engine to do Regolith. The entry in the series that, at that point, barely, JUST barely had much substance to it. I built it mostly from the ground up, but there wasn't an extreme amount of ground to cover and, seeing that it lacked the sheer, years long gestation of Rising Seas, that is reflected in the work itself.
Am I saying it's a bad novel? NO! I'm saying that this lacked the holding time I had for Rising Seas. A prior blog mentioned about how long I kept Rising Seas not only as Rising Seas, but also as its prototypes. I also think my confidence is reflected there too.

So what am I doing now? Well, the next entry is A.D.A.M. It is meant to be an acronym. It won't really mean anything until the book is nearly done. I won't be working on that for a good long time. Maybe a few weeks or so, who knows? I'm still working on Dragonsbane with the same idea that I want to get this published by a tradition press, but no idea WHO or WHICH ONE.
Also the Scranton Reads Book Riot is coming up. It's a week from Sunday. It's October 11th at the Catlin House. If you're in the area, stop by, buy print copies, have me sign them. I'll have both Rising Seas and Regolith prints priced $9 and $6 respectively, or buy both and pay $14. You save a whole $2. A Sexy TWO DOLLARS.
It's worth noting, I'm running low on energy. My week has been long. I'm a lunch bro at a school where the kids make faces when I ask if they want the hot vegetable of the day like I asked them if they want cyanide with their food. I PROMISE, for any legal reasons, that THAT was a JOKE! PROMISE.
They do make faces though. Anyway, I ended up doing more work today because I subbed for one of the evening maintenance people and then... the partner person I was supposed to work with got sick or something so... Hey, Nick, if you could clean twenty-odd rooms, that'd be great. Not that I'm complaining, it was fun!

So, yeah, REGOLITH is out now. That's off my chest. I'm on writing break to deal with this hectic silly-willy stuff going on lately. So, yay!