The day job has been relentlessly draining me these last two weeks. A new system rolled out and we’ve essentially gone into mandatory overtime mode. This is less than productive for my writing schedule but as the old adage goes: it is what it is.
Bloodwoven’s first draft is still in the works, but I’m confident I’ll be able to finish it before May.
Of Stars Below— draft three– is still in stasis as I work on Bloodwoven.
Reviews (linked here) have started coming in for Stones, Stars and the Storms Between. Some good, some okay. I’ve sold more than one copy in the first month of it being released which feels unreal and I think overall people like it.
Other News: I started a new short story inspired by my current day job funk, not wholly original in its concept, but done in my specific style. I’ll be posting it later this week for free. My wife told me she’s been making sure people know that my “short stories” tend to be long, which is fair. I enjoy writing and when an idea or a concept takes hold of me I try to tell that story to the best of my abilities, even when it becomes a 10,000 word “short story”.
The threshold for a novel is widely accepted as starting at 40,000 words for reference.
That being said. Larry Died, the working title of the new short, is closer to flash fiction than a true short story.
Thank you everyone for the continued support.