Moving sucks.
But now it is over with! At least the physical part. Pending legal action against the seller of the house… will take time to resolve. Oh, the fun!
Volume 2, Unfinished Business, had an upgrade. I wasn’t completely happy about the depth of Bart’s character. So, now there is more of his personality, personal life, and background about how he arrived at where he is now.
Volume 4, Eternally Touched… maybe too long. but I hope it will be forgiven as it will be the second book featuring Noralee Church, Eternally Blessed, errand girl for the angels, as she desperately tries to have some vague semblance of a personal life while juggling all of the mundane and supernatural duties assigned to her. My last beta reader pointed out that the story was disjointed, without an overriding thread. I believe I fixed that. Now, the woman who plays Snow White at the ren faire is now introduced in chapter one, and her presence is maintained until all of the pieces are assembled to set the full chaos into motion.
Volume 5, Annie’s Little Orphans, needs a minor upgrade in the climax. It’s good now, but it can be taken up a notch.
Volume 6, Outstanding Debt, is in reasonable shape. More depth in the family dynamic needs to be added to really polish it up. That’s been written down on the ‘to do’ list.
Volume 7, Eternally Cursed, needs some restructuring. Similar to Volume 4, the main conflict needs to be set up earlier and given more explanation. All very doable, but I don’t have every detail plotted out now.
And the cutting edge… works in progress…
Volume 8, Asylum Nation, continuing the saga of Jake, Annie, and Evri, refuses to end. It was at 300K words. I made the decision to split it into two books. The second one will be Dread Lord. Work on this is on hold until the wave of revisions is done on previous works.
Slippery Slope was Volume 9, but will now be Volume 10. I can see it being split as well, with Volume 11 having the working title of Patriarch Appropriation.
And the same fate awaits Eternally Lost, previously volume 10, now slotted to be Volume 12. I expect it, too, will be exceptionally long and need to be split. It will spawn volume 13, Eternally Remembered.
Only then will I be able to touch the prequel, volume zero, Kill Moose and Squirrel, to tell the story of how all of this insanity started.
I probably have next to no readers of this blog at this time, but that is okay. I’m going through the motions of trying to have a social media presence. (shudder) Not my strength!