Book 3 Update

20 minutes of just passing and shooting nearly killed me... I apparently took water polo for granted. At least I can still skip a backhand shot cross pool...


In other news, 123k words, and I still have 8 chapters to write and another 5 that need a full re-write... which makes this my longest book. As a series, I think I'll be pushing 380-400k words. But I've heard the first million are a warm up... and I intend to sprint.

Review Song: The Emperor's Edge by Lindsay Buroker

Here's another book review video for the Sword & Laser show, this time featuring The Emperor's Edge by Lindsay Buroker.

A swim coach once told me that I'd never be a dancer...I'm not going to hold my breath on being a singer either.


I hope you at least get a good laugh out of it!

The story so far

Book 3 is coming along pretty nicely. My wonderful wife is making up the cover art. At least, when she's not playing Starcraft 2 and being wildly entertaining. (She talks to the units and scolds them for not doing what she thinks they should be doing. And she doesn't realize that she's doing it. It's adorable.)


I'm still trying to cut down on the smiling. And eye rolling. My characters were apparently smiling and rolling their eyes non-stop in the last 2 books...


But a nice, solid 18k word day, including some massive reorganization of the timeline. I played it pretty loose with that in book 2, especially toward the end... trying to avoid hand waving and misdirection this time around. But yes, the three point of views have finally split into their own stories, so I can literally do whatever I want to them and NO-ONE WILL KNOW. MWAHAHHAAHAH!


Ahem. That is to say that yes, the story is actually on track. Not that I ever doubted that it would be. Nope. Not even a little bit...

Book 3 Progress

I guess I should post something about my progress on book 3...or something...


Anyways, Child of Lightning is coming along nicely. It's all plotted out and broken into chapters (at the moment there are 70 of them). I am writing full time. And by full time, I mean whenever I'm not at work. Or swimming. Or playing video games. Or wasting time while I think of a reason to not write... Look, I'm sure that I'm spending some time writing. I anticipate it'll be done (i.e. edited and ready for release) at some point in August. The Kirsten O'Donnell chapters are pretty fun, if I do say so myself...

Thanks for giving my books a try, I'll post more updates as they come.

Review Song: Zero Sight by B. Justin Shier

Zero Sight by B. Justin Shier

Here's a little something I did in response to Sword & Laser's call for video reviews. Stop me if you've heard this one before...

Back in the Water Again

Day two back in the water, and it took me half an hour to swim a mile. The me of ten years ago couldn't even be bothered to laugh scornfully. I think all I'm getting is a look of mild disdain. 


But I know where I went wrong! It was writing those books that did it! Thinking back, I don't remember having written even one book back when I was in shape, let alone two. Yeah...that's definitely it. Well...that or seven years of math, programming, video games, and junk food. You know, one or the other. 


But I'll show the me of ten years ago.  Okay, maybe I won't show him, but I'm going to get a slight nod of respect from the bastard. And I'm going to do it with a smile on my face and a song in my heart.  Or a song on YouTube.  Stay tuned.

A (belated) Thanks to You

It's a little late, but I wanted to thank all of you who stuck with me through the A to Z Challenge. I hope that I managed to entertain you. I've got some new stuff planned for the blog, which I'll hopefully have ready for you soon. (Have you ever wondered if I can sing? No? Well, too bad. You're going to find out anyway.)


Keep an eye out, ridiculousness is coming.