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- 2002: DELIVERANCE (Frontiersmanship series #1, as yet unpublished)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.
