Yes. it’s not ready to print yet, but I have started my pre-print final edit. Which will take time. Still, progress is happening. Got to work on the cover next….

Books 3 and 4 are sort of written… book 5 not so much. At this stage Book 5 is the planned end of the arc but has I’ve written less than 1/3 of it so far it may not be the last at all….

Other stuff I’m working on:

I have a near written book about a contemporary post-grad who meets a marooned sorcerer from a different earth and the adventures that ensue….

There is 2/3 Space Opera sort of Romance  book…

A couple of other Space Opera ideas one of which will eventually tie into Arturo’s story sort of, maybe…

And other less well developed ideas.

As always nothing is set in stone – all my work is subject to change without notice. Well except Arturo’s second book which is pretty much fixed… just need to get rid of the errors and such.

 

 

 

Being a new author, so to speak, I have tried to find out how other people write and discovered that people have various different methods. Some don’t start to write till they have the whole story mapped out in their head. Others write down ideas for a story as they occur inside their head but may not come back and actually write the story for some time, sometimes years. And then the story idea might be changed out of all recognition by other factors and or idea that have occurred to the author in the meantime.

The conclusion I have reached is that I am a very messy writer. I tend to write when a scene comes into my head.  I do methodically edit at least one Word page of previously written material every day (often more than one page). New writing, being more of a inspirational process means I will often write a few thousand words in one story this week and then a few thousand words in some other story next week because something has caught my imagination for that work.

Bear in mind that I work 6 days a week as a ride-share driver for Uber and also do a bit of graphic design work as well with a total work week of +60 hours a week so I get tired easily and often go whole weeks without writing much at all.

That being said, I am about to start editing Arturo’s 2nd book, “Begin Again” which I hope to get out before the end of June but that is a date subject to change without notice!

Well it is certainly an interesting experience self publishing a book. tried to get on the Time Travel  book group on Goodreads and took me nearly 3 hours and needed the help of another Goodreads person to get it up there….

Contrary to what my daughter may tell you I am not really that dumb….

Working on some other things to  get my book placed here and there but have decided  I need a new photo so I will wait til this evening when my lovely wife can do the honors hopefully.

Sales are such that I am not bothering to book a look at a new Ferrari, not even a Matchbox one!

Still. I have done it. Got a book out there. Rome wasn’t built in a Day after all…. wasn’t destroyed in a day either but that’s another matter entirely.

 

1st book is up!!!

the 1st part of the the Arturo Sandus story.

Working 50-60 hours a week doesn’t leave a lot of time for writing but I have the manuscripts for the next 3 books in the series written – not just edited properly yet.

 

Well here we are in 2020 and the first book of my sci-fi/alternate history series is still not published. Res republicae – On the Rocks is the title now. The good news is I have downloaded the Amazon Kindle Create software and am getting my manuscript ready to publish. Knowing me this will either happen after a several hours of feverish work or take several days to come to grips with….

I have have however done up a blurb for the story – you know that bot that is supposed to wet a reader’s appetite and cause them to rush their mouse to the buy now button and voila I’m a dollar or two richer. Well in theory. For those that are interested here it is. Feedback (no swearing please) is very welcome.

Captain Arturo Sanders was having a bad day. First the routine destruction of some ancient automatic defence batteries became a disaster when his ship’s screens failed and he had no choice to abandon ship.

Then he had to rescue two left behind crew people which meant he missed the main shuttle evacuation leaving him and his two companions in a shuttle on their own at the rear.

Then the shuttle was hit by enemy fire just as they traversed the jump point, of course! This sent the shuttle through something to somewhere but not the safe system the rest of the crew had jumped to!

The damage to the shuttle meant they would need a dockyard or failing that they would have to land on a planet to affect repairs which seemed likely as the system had no electronic signature, so space docks looked unlikely.

The third planet was in fact inhabited, but by primitives armed with swords and spears, probably an old Imperial colony that had been cut off and regressed tech-wise. They should be able to land and repair their shuttle somewhere out of the way except of course the engines decided to fail halfway down!

This led to a close encounter with the side of a mountain, followed by a crash landing into a lake.

And then his day got really bad!