I'll start this off with excuses to why it's been so long since my last
book came out. The biggest reason is: I hate editing. Reading the same book
(That I wrote) over and over again is the most boring thing I can do (And 3
years with very little reviews on my books hasn't left me very motivated. Though
I do see people reading and buying it at least every month). However, I know
editing is important because each time I edit a book it gets better. More
details are added, characters are fleshed out and so on. However, that doesn't
keep it from being boring and I will do whatever I can to procrastinate doing
it. (On the flip side writing is so much fun. Thinking about how my characters
can overcome whatever insane and cruel thing I decided to throw at them is truly
entertaining.)
Another reason is that my sister (My main editor) started being a
nurse right at the start of Covid 19 so she was too busy trying to find a job
(No one wanted to hire new nurses for some reason even though they said there
was a shortage) and then the long days of learning the job left her beat. (At
least that is her excuse. She has only read the first 3 of my books even though
she has had the 4th one for about a year). And then this last year I've been
doing some remodeling on my house (It's almost a hundred years old... well over
eighty) and it needed some major work done to it but I've still kept up with my
goal of writing 2 books a year so yay for that! I just haven't been editing
them.
For those who are interested (I'm grouping them together by series not
release date):
1 & 2) First I'm going through
Diverging Destines: Villain and
Diverging Destines: Hero for one last edit before I put them in
print. The rest of my books will be going live in print at the start.
3) Then in
the Diverging Destines series I have
Diverging Destines: Shorts: Book 1
Rêveur Research Building. This is a collection of short stories of some people who were inside the
Rêveur Research Building when it exploded in book 1 of the Hero and Villain
books. This book is a way to introduce the characters who will be in book 2
without having to give their origin stories twice (In both Hero and Villain).
4
& 5) Book 2 of both Diverging Destines: Villain and
Diverging Destines: Hero are written. So, look forward to that.
They will be out as soon as I'm done editing and have the cover pictures.
That
is everything for the superhero books. That makes up 5 of the 9 books that I
have already written (At least the rough draft for. Though I'm pretty sure the
Short Stories and both Book 2s are on the first draft.)
6)
Destroyer Suspect is my next book that will be coming out. It is
in the final edit before I can submit it for print and Kindle. It's a fantasy
book with dragons, griffins, unicorns and magic. It's a world in which magic
only Destroys and being able to use magic is a crime as it Destroys a full
sphere around you. If you try to hold it back, the power just builds and builds
until eventually you Destroy your entire village when you can't hold it in
anymore. But for some reason Avus is special. He can choose what he wants to
Destroy but the soldiers don't care. They chase him down even in spite of all
the irregularities surrounding his first major use of power. He is forced to run
his way through the kingdom to survive. Getting captured my Mercenaries and
making a few ...interesting friends along the way.
7) Book 2 in this series is
also finished with the rough draft. and I've even started a bit on book 3.
8) I
don't quite have a title for this one yet. It's a book about traveling through
multiple dimensions looking for a friend. This one should come out spring of
next year (I hope. This is the one my sister has had for a while now). Cover art
has already begun. (Hint hint you have already met one of the characters from
this book and if you look closely, you will also find them in the
Destroyer Suspect book too. [I hesitate to put this in here but
only 6 people have looked at my last post and it's been up for over two years so
I'll leave it.])
9) The last book is a reincarnated into another world with RPG
elements book. LitRPG is the genre, I think. I've decided to go with a cheat
ability that I've never seen before (And one I would probably pick myself if
given the option). It would actually make it more of a hard mode if you really
think about it. More details about this will come later. This is the last book
that I've written that I only finished about a month ago.
There you have it. That is what I've been up to the last few years. More stuff will be coming soon so look forward to it.
