H1 2019: An overview of WIPs

Hey folks!

This year is busy! I've made a plan on my publishing schedule for the first half (H1) which I'd like to share with you (both for accountability and to keep you in the loop! Heh.)

There won't be any new stories published until March as far as the schedule is planned out.

In March we will have one novella (at least). A few of you will have heard of this before (especially if you follow me on Twitter or regularly check my blog)

The Torn Planet is set to be published on the 2nd of March 2019.

I am also working on a story called Heart of Askelion which is brand new and deals with the premise of lovers separated by time BUT not in a cheesy way. These two guys are true soldiers (knights actually) born into two different worlds (times) who only get to know each other when one of them (called Lorne Lionheart at this point) is sent to the other's (Captain Ash's) time to retrieve a catalyst that started a rupture in time which has now gone out of hand and is causing them to be overrun by an age-old race of warriors.

The tentative publishing date of this will probably be around May. But that's not certain yet. It depends largely on how my bigger project (Hourglass) is going by then.

The fourth project is another WIP currently in the editing stage. The working title is Mimicry and you can find more information on it by clicking on this LINK. There are also details about beta-reading opportunities in this post if you're so inclined!

This is of course only what's planned for the first half of the year. The second half is still a bit shadowy in my mind but once it sorts itself out there will be an update!

I hope this was informative and you're excited to hear more about all the projects soon!

Cheers!

WriteBot.

2019: future WIP needs Beta-Readers!

Hey everyone!

I'd love to introduce you to another one of my projects: working title Mimicry. Mimicry one is a bit more YA than most of what I've written but I'm trying to make it less so (nothing against YA - it's just not my genre beyond reading entertainment). It is (of course) science fiction and deals with an alien invasion of Earth. It's also a bit of an older project I'm trying to clean up at the moment (when not working on... others)!

Here's a blurb!

17-year old Dalta Rim, a sentinel of the last human outpost, the city of America, lives to put bullets through the heads of Others – the extraterrestrials that invaded Earth thirteen years ago – but when she finds a strange transmitter on one of her missions in the Sonoran desert, she realizes the aliens are neither the only nor the worst threat to humanity's continued existence.

The Council, the post-Invasion government, is hiding something about the Others that might be crucial to the survival of America and her citizens, and they're prepared to go to any length to keep it secret. Her life and that of her adopted brother, Jack, threatened, Dalta joins the conspiracy of medic Owen Early and soldier Logan Pendray to uncover the secret and find out what makes it so horrible it cannot be allowed to unravel.

Their investigation leads them to the religious cult that worships the Others as messengers of God and believes they're the harbingers of Judgement Day, and pitches them into a tangle of clues left by Owen's late parents, the genetic scientists, Logan's father, one of the four Generals of the military, and Dalta's own dead mother, who provides a single hint written on the back of her pilot license. In the meantime, the Others seem to be preparing for a last, devastating attack on America, designed to end all of humanity, and the Council is hard on Dalta and her friends' trail.

When Dalta finally matches up the pieces of the puzzle and learns the world as she knows it is a lie, she must choose between forgetting the secret and keeping her life and loyalties safe, or exposing the secret and forfeiting her life and beliefs in to save the humans and humaneness of her nation alike.

The first chapter can be found here: (google docs link as always)

Do you think this is something you'd like to beta? Please let me know! I'd love some input. You can also just edit directly on the google docs document itself and leave a quick note requesting access to the full document if you want to continue! (This note has to include your e-mail as otherwise I won't be able to add you. Don't worry though! I'll never spam you with anything or give away your e-mail to third parties.)

Cheers!
WriteBot.

Hourglass editing progress

Hey folks!

I just wanted to give you all an update on Hourglass. A lot of you have made some edits in the early Google Docs chapters. Thank you for that! I really appreciate it. At this point however I've decided to take the manuscript off Google docs to work on it by myself. It's been a long time since I did an edit on it and I realized after your first few comments that it simply needs to be updated. That's what I'm currently doing and I'm at the moment on chapter two.

It has been going quite well. The first ten pages were easier than the most recent six pages. I couldn't even do more than six because it was just really hard. However I finished them and updated most of the manuscript on my PC (I edit on paper). They will need another edit (desperately!) but for now it's time to focus on the next few pages instead. If I get bogged down here, then I'll never finish it, and that's what this draft is for. To finish a recent edit of Hourglass.

I've also considered how to best keep you folks in the loop and decided it's probably best to upload a chapter weekly once they are publishable. This is what I aim to do from January 10 onwards. A chapter a week will be posted on Google docs (link shall be revealed on January 10) and you can leave as many comments as you'd like! I appreciate every feedback you have!

Does this sound good? Great! I look forward to seeing your comments on the new draft soon!

See you again tomorrow! Enjoy your day/night.

WriteBot.