Hi, Everybody,
I haven’t posted in a while and wanted to publish a few updates. I’ve got over 80,000 words written on the third Intrepid Force novel, but am considering splitting it into two overlapping books. I’m going to separate the pieces and see if they grow back together or grow bigger and better on their own. The plot threads take place in 1984, the early 21st century, and 2085 about four months after the end of the last novel. I’m going to try putting the 2085 piece in its own novel.
I’ve also been working on a revision of Season Out of Time, a nostalgic time travel novel I wrote when I was in graduate school. Around 2014, I touched up all of my old novels except that one, and wanted to take my time and do it right. A lot of people really liked the original, and I didn’t want to mess it up. The revisions are pretty much complete, but I want to let some other eyes read through it for mistakes before I re-release it. Independent authors are bad about getting in a hurry and releasing their work too quickly, and I’ve been guilty of that more than once.
For the Magnolia Blossom Festival Art Show, I decided to do a series of sketches about storytelling. I did three of them in less than two days, so they’re a little rough in spots, but I was still pretty happy with them. I might go back and redo them as paintings later, but I’ve posted one of them below. This one is an author at a book signing with the worlds and characters from his stories in a mural above him. Some of you might recognize the stories as being from the work of Ray Bradbury, the author of The Martian Chronicles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Halloween Tree, and The Sound of Thunder short story. I wrote to him twice, and he wrote back both times, so I’ll always have a special appreciation for him. I met him briefly when he spoke at Centenary in Shreveport. I hope you enjoy it. It has made me want to do more non-computer generated art.
