Busy week

The editing on Book 20 slowed a bit with an unexpected early finishing of the big project.

I still can't say what that other special big project is. It's gone into the beta testing and tweaking stage. I've selected a few trusted individuals to provide their feedback.

But now that it's to this point, I can switch gears to focusing on editing again. I have a week and a half to make my goal. I'll be digging in to finish that and get Book 20 published.

It'll be a while yet before the big project is ready for a public announcement, but it's going to be great.

Stay tuned!

quick update

I need to get to bed, but before I do, I want to leave a quick update on the status of Book 20 editing.

I've started the second round of edits, but already in the first round had added 3,000 words. I'll be more into the editing mode this round. I expect more detailed edits of rearranging things and refining them in big ways. Right now, the story is around 46,000 words.

After this next round, I expect two more. Hopefully not a fifth. Book 19's editing about soured me on editing. That was six or seven rounds and I couldn't have done any more, but it was for the best.

Book 20 shouldn't need that much, but the first round was great. I enjoyed getting back to review pieces of the lives of Zaer and Shen after so much time away.

The goal is to finish by the end of August. Barring any interruptions like July pulled, that is very likely.

And work on the new non-writing project has begun. It'll take a month or two to be ready, but that's not as important as the writing.

In the meantime, the description for Book 20 is now posted:

When a Starfire shard calls out to Nya in desperation, she immediately transports the Iludrin to a world where they discover game hunters.

Afraid that the hunters are there for the Keepers, Nya and L'Ni, with an escort of Altorin, are taken to the surface by Zaer and Shen on the Cartegos. There, they find one of the small hunter vessels, but no one is present. While the hunters are away, Shen has an idea to disable it. However, when one of the local creatures attacks, the ship, with Shen on it, crashes over a cliff into the sea and sinks beneath the surface.

The hunters aren't alone, however. Zaer and the others are forced to escape the world with the shard, but what arrives reveals that the creatures of that world were not the only ones being hunted.

Thanks for reading!

Book 20 is coming soon!

Check-in - editing

I hope visitors to this blog are finding the Halloween-suitable religion topics interesting. The truth that demons are real means God is real and that frightens some people more than demons. 😱

Seriously, the videos are new ones coming up in my feed that I find interesting and that seem appropriate for this month.

In the meantime, aside from finding and sharing spiritual warfare videos, I'm editing. Book 18 is coming along well. I've had some busy days where I didn't get much work done, but I still expect to have it done by the first weekend of November, just in time for the holy days of All Saints' Day and All Souls Day, a perfect time for this particular book.

There's another aspect of sharing religion with Book 18 coming up--the title... SINS OF THE FATHER.

Yes, it's a theme building up to the publishing of the book, although that doesn't mean I won't post other videos, just that it's especially suitable right now.

Have a blessed day!

COMING SOON

Thanks for reading!

In Darkness, Light

IN DARKNESS, LIGHT has a release date!

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Watch for it to become available for pre-order from retailers soon. This is the longest of the books so far, although still a short novel.

After leaving Ethal, Nya is on her way to visit the worlds of the Starfire crystal with her friends. However, Zaer has unfinished business, a delivery rumored to give enemies of the Issan a chance to defeat them, and she's not about to abandon it for any reason. Nya and the others have no choice but to go along with the plan.

What should be a simple exchange on the quiet, lowly world of Kurtuz turns out to be a trap. A group of Issan supporters are waiting and ready to do whatever it takes to stop the little black box from reaching its intended recipient. When her friends are taken, Nya must join forces with a mysterious stranger to save them before the Issan capture everyone.

$2.99 at these and other retailers:

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