Posts published in November 2014
8 and a half days to go, 11K words remaining. Looks like we are going to do this… oh, an excerpt. Hard to summarize this one, there's so many spoilers for parts of books that aren't out yet:
“Most of the universe is made up of stuff that’s completely invisible,” Doug said. “Matter that we can’t see, holding the galaxies together; energy we can’t feel, pushing them apart. What if there’s a dark magic underpinning the world—undetectable, but influencing everything?”
Till next time.
-Anthony
DOORWAYS TO EXTRA TIME, the anthology I edited with Trisha Wooldridge, is now on sale for 99 cents on Kindle! What a deal! If you ever wanted to know what would happen if you got an extra hour in the day, now's your chance! And apparently this has done well enough for the anthology that it's bubbled up in the Kindle lists:
Any day where something I wrote or edited is running neck and neck with Ray Bradbury is a good day.
-the Centaur
… working on Dakota Frost #5: PHANTOM SILVER. What's this one about? Well, the first paragraph says it all:
“Tell me, Dakota Frost,” intoned the squat fae gargoyle, leaning forward, his wide stone face looming until his hooked nose took up nearly the whole of the Skype window on the screen of my shiny new MacBook Pro. “Have you ever thought of becoming an exorcist?”
As you can see, I've been busy catching up from a slow start:
Between travel, food poisoning, and catchup on work and editing LIQUID FIRE, it took me until almost the 9th until I got on track, and even then I think it was the Night of Writing Dangerously that got me back on track.
More on that later. Caught up on my word count today, and am even a day ahead, but I gotta go to work.
-the Centaur
National Novel Writing Month is here again. For those who are just joining the party, it's a challenge to write 50,000 words of a new novel in the month of November - and it's also the event which finally broke through my creative barriers, helping me at last produce a complete publishable novel. I've done it eight times in the past:
- 2002: DELIVERANCE (Frontiersmanship series #1, as yet unpublished)
- 2007: FROST MOON (Dakota Frost series #1, published by Bell Bridge Books 2010)
- 2008: BLOOD ROCK (Dakota Frost series #2, published by Bell Bridge Books 2011)
- 2009: LIQUID FIRE (Dakota Frost series #3, forthcoming from Bell Bridge, 2014)
- 2010: JEREMIAH WILLSTONE AND THE CLOCKWORK TIME MACHINE (Jeremiah Willstone series #1, forthcoming from Bell Bridge est. 2014)
- 2011: HEX CODE (Cinnamon Frost series #1, manuscript in progress)
- 2012: MAROONED (Serendipity series #1, manuscript in progress)
- 2013: SPECTRAL IRON (Dakota Frost series #4 manuscript in progress, estimated submission 2014)
and now 2015: PHANTOM SILVER, which will be Dakota Frost #5. I'm planning on focusing on Dakota for a while now, trying to get books 4-6 to Debra (and my fans) so that they have six books in their hands, hopefully enough to tide them over while I get Cinnamon Frost, Jeremiah Willstone and Serendipity out the door.
I could say more about Nano, or do link salsa to the text above to provide references. But I'm not. I'm going to get back to writing; it's already 10pm on Saturday November 1, and I'm only about 500 words in, when I need almost 1700. Arr, back to work, ye scurvy writer dawgs! It's Nano time!-the Centaur
Pictured: a creepy Halloween cat at a nearby hardware store, thematic because I'm shooting for a slightly creepier Dakota Frost tale this time around, focusing mostly on ghosts.