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Book seven, The Fallen:  Search for the Path, is now "officially" a real book.  Whereas it was just a word processing document, my print on demand publisher is now speeding a printed and bound paperback copy to my doorstep!  It even has cover art, but ......

Yeah, the title of this blog entry probably isn't going to really win anyone over to thinking I might be the least bit saner than they thought I was originally.  A high price, but I'm willing to pay it.  This is where the magic really does happen... Honestly, until I...

That, in many ways, is the most important part of this "second" edit.  Because it's being read aloud to me, I can actually make very fast progress through the story.  Besides catching places where I have unintentionally dropped words (for example, saying "goes the...

After a week, I'm actually finished listening and editing chapter 5 (and everything before it, of course).  I try not to do more than one chapter per day, because that's a lot to pay attention to and a lot of time to eat up.  Little bites are better, because editing...

Originally, The Rescue didn't have chapter names - that was a request from my dear wife.  So, I was faced with the task I had intentionally avoided - trying to distill twenty or more pages down to some specific few words.  This presents more than a few problems...

It took from roughly from March 1st to September 1st to get The Fallen done from beginning to end.  Using the word "done" is also a little strong given how much work is ahead of me getting this work ready to share.  In addition to the editing passes, I need to put...

How appropriate that my last reading in scripture is in Ecclesiastes - "There is a time for everything, and a season for  every activity under the heavens."  For the last chapter of The Fallen has "fallen" into place. Every time I near the completion of a novel, I...

Hi there! I know it's been awhile since my last post, but this is the time of year when time gets more than a little compressed.  The last few weeks of summer vacation includes things you expect - like visiting family and getting organized for the coming school year -...