Celtic Bard: Blog

Quick update on things. I have gotten super busy at work, so posting may take some time. I am working on a short story sequel to Enter the Darkness (tentatively titled A Restful Holiday) to tide people over until I start posting chapters for the second Dark Wars novel, In the Darkness Falling. I also have been working on the next chapter for both Future Distorted and Anomaly of the Fates, so they may be done soon as well. I know I said that last update, but I did not expect to get as busy as I have been. It all depends on how real life goes and for right now it is too busy to transfer the hand-written work into the computer at anything other than a glacially slow pace. Sorry, writing does not make enough money to pay the bills yet.

I have been working on a few things all at the same time lately, which means it is all progressing . . . slowly. I will probably be posting the next chapter of Future Distorted soon but it will be a transition chapter and thusly a short one. I also have a good bit of the next chapter of Anomaly of the Fates done so that one may be posted soon as well. I am also slowly working on a few new things, some of which will probably not be posted but published.

Among those that will probably eventually be posted are a fantasy story I haven't decided whether it is going to be high or low fantasy about a Land of Exiles where the criminal class rules. It is called The Lord of Dirks (a dirk being a type of knife, FYI) and focuses on the man in charge of the Land's assassins' guild and is seen mainly through the eyes of his friend and colleague, the Lord of Daggers. I may post the first chapter of this soon with the warning that new chapters will dribble out at a slow rate until Future Distorted and Anomaly of the Fates is completed.

Another is a contemporary urban fantasy story about a man from the inner city of North Jersey who grows up to be a bouncer in a strip club frequented by mafia types in New York City. He has a condition that gives him almost-orgasmic rushes when he gets angry and so he is sort of a rage junkie, something which his job as a bouncer lets him indulge. He also uses that condition, and his massive size, to deal out a bit of street justice now and then. It is tentatively titled Rage and I am not too far into that one yet, so it is a long way off until I decide what to do with it.

And a third new story is another epic fantasy novel set in a world of many races, including dragons and wyverns. It concerns an empire run by highly religious humans who find out shapeshifted wyverns (though they mistakenly think it was shapeshifted dragons) have been mating with humans, creating a new race called Dragosians. This sets them on the path to war with the dragonkin and the "abomination" of a race they sired. This one is called The Shattering of Faith.

As for things like sequels and publishing, I am also working on those. Justice Resurrected and Death and Love in Marjah fans who keep writing me are going to be disappointed to learn that those storylines are not on the list. Anything having to do with those stories is on hold until I clear my plate a little. I am working on editing the third book in the Chronicles of The Samuelson quartet and that is going fairly quickly. I have also started writing the fourth and final book, though I haven't been working too diligently on it due to the amount of other stuff on my plate. I have also been working slowly but steadily on the sequel to Enter the Darkness, though I am going to wait on posting any of those chapters until I have a few more written.

For now, that is all folks. Hope this update either explained what is going on with your particular favorite or gave you hope for future satiation of your yearning for your particular favorite. I will probably be posting that next chapter of Future Distorted soon, so keep an eye out for that.

Those of you who have been writing me about Future Distorted should be happy to know that I have just submitted Chapter 5 of FD. It should be up sometime tomorrow, later tonight if the Webmaster is really rocking his magic. Now that Enter the Darkness is done, I am hoping to work more on some of the stuff that is unfinished, but that also now includes EtD's sequel, unfortunately. I am also starting the editing process for my third novel (Reign of Prophecy) in the Chronicles of The Samuelson books, so that may also take time away from working on FD and Anomaly of the Fates and other projects. In other words, I will try to post a little more regularly on the unfinished stuff, but I cannot guarantee that I will not get sidetracked, by my Muse's twisted sense of humor as well as real life.

So enjoy Chapter 5 of Future Distorted and hopefully I will be able to post a little more regularly than I have been now that Enter the Darkness is done and Reign of Havok is published.

As promised, Enter the Darkness is now complete! I just submitted the last two chapters plus Epilogue, so it should be up by late tomorrow at the latest, if the webmaster is up to his usual standard. I want to thank all of you who have joined me on this trip down memory lane with Alexandra as she grew up and grew into her destiny. I hope to have the beginnings of the next Alexandra story up soon. Until then, enjoy the final chapters of Enter the Darkness and feel free to let me know what you think.

As for what I will be working on next, I am hopeful to have the next chapter of Future Distorted up soon. I know a lot of you are waiting for that and some of the other stuff left unfinished, so hopefully that will be next. I have been working on it, so I am hoping it won't be long. That is all for now.

I know it has been a while since I promised the imminent end of Enter the Darkness, but I promise it is coming. Chapters 18 and 19 are written . . . by hand . . . on paper. This means that it will take me some time uninterrupted at the computer before it sees the submission wizard (my handwriting is execrable and sometimes hard to decipher even for me). Since I have gotten busy at work with the beginning of the school year, time uninterrupted at the computer means weekends. Unfortunately, weekends also mean lawn care and family obligations, which negate such time. On the up side, this means that I also have had time to write (by hand . . . on paper) the Epilogue. This means the next posting will likely include Chapters 18 and 19 and the Epilogue all at once. I appreciate the patience and I hope you will think it worth the wait. Persevere yet a while longer and you will be rewarded.