Celtic Bard: Blog

Weeell, I have submitted something new on Figment, Finestories.com, and SOL and it should be up sometime today or really early tomorrow. I called it We Three Kings and it is about exactly what those of you who live in the Christian part of the world think it is about. I was getting a lot of requests for reviews/edits from writers submitting to a contest for Justine Magazine and so I decided to see what it was. I was both happy it had such a short word limit (1200, which I don't bother with; I don't have stories 1200 words short. I don't have chapters 1200 words short!) and irritated that it was for teen girls (which I am not). But the prompt must have woken up my Muse and she hit me with one of her never-ending supply of anvils and so this story was born. The contest prompt was to rewrite a classic tale and while I did not modernize mine, like the contest would have required, We Three Kings is still what came of my curiosity about the contest. I supposed, if I cared, I could rewrite it to modern times, but I liked my rewrite. But for those of you Christians and Muslims who take your holy texts seriously and don't like people messing with them, you should probably do me a favor and either not read We Three Kings or, if you do, contain yourselves and don't write me about it when you finish. Unless, of course, you liked it and want to gush fulsome praises over it. That I guess I could suffer through.

On the other stuff front, now that Kings is out of my system, I hope to get back to Future Distorted and get the next chapter out to you soon.

That is all for now.

I have finally submitted Chapter 13 of Enter the Darkness. It is another chapter that is slightly shorter than usual but I decided last chapter to break the story line into two smaller chapters instead of cramming everything itno one oversized chapter. Easier for me to keep things straight that way. We will be skipping ahead in time after this one because not much will be going on. I have not started writing the next one yet, but I will probably be skipping ahead to the second Christmas after Alexa's arrival in Eoin's household. Having said that, this means that the next chapter will hopefully be a bit more substantial than the last two and things will begin to pick up in pace.

Since I am working on Volume Four of the Chronicles of The Samuelson (my novels, see my external blog posts for details at jmfhildebrandt.livejournal.com), what I will post next will depend on what I can fit in between working on Reign of Avatars, editing Reign of Havok (Volume Two of The Samuelson), and anything else that pops up. I am hoping it will be the next chapter of Future Distorted, since it is almost done, but I won't promise anything on that front.

So enjoy Chapter 13 and don't be afraid to let me know what you think (constructively, please).

A new chapter in Enter the Darkness has been submitted and I have reposted all of the previous chapters due to very minor changes. I am working on a couple of other things for the very near future, see my external blog at http://jmfhildebrandt.livejournal.com/ for details.

Reign of Madness is now out in trade paperback. See http://jmfhildebrandt.livejournal.com/ for details and about my thoughts on what I am working on.

All right people, I finally finished up the next chapter of Future Distorted. It is on the short side and those of you on Finestories only get the slightly edited version (due to graphic sexual content not allowed on FS). For further on this see my external blog at http://jmfhildebrandt.livejournal.com/. I got a couple of other things to say there as well, so give it a look.