Alas, I didn’t know Bryce had posted his. Dang the omniscient glitch! Furthermore, Bryce is a local “Utard” 😛
So read the very first interview on The Intelli-Gent Reviews where I reveal that it was Rudolph who really made me want to be a storyteller.
I passed the 90% mark today on SERVANT. It’s been wonderful going back through this story, remembering why I loved these characters so much. The cover too is coming along. I’m looking forward to revealing it in the near future. Right now everything looks like it will release on target, although that may change.
While you’re here, you know I have been on a quest for delicious low-sugar yogurt for some time. I have found it at last. Behold.
No Greek yogurt has a better taste or texture. And there’s no added sugar. Add some fruit and it’s heaven.
It’s pronounced “fa-yeh.” Except, how do you pronounce that? Who comes up with product names nobody can pronounce?
But it doesn’t matter how you pronounce it. We luvs it, Precious.
So I signed the contracts and put them in the mail today–I’m officially doing a collaboration with Larry Correia.
This is an extension of the novel that we sketched for the 2015 LTUE presentation we did together called “How to Build an Action Plot.”
Basically we took pirates and smugglers, put them in space, added in a nice helping of giant robots, huge aliens, space ships, nasty warlords, organized crime, and a government you don’t want to mess with, then stirred.
It’s going to rock.
You can see the materials for the presentation here. And read more about the collaboration in Larry’s post.
Please note that we started our novel sketch by asking Larry’s ten-year-old son, “Hey, what’s awesome?”
He replied without hesitation, “Giant robots, bandits, and murderers.”
And we took it from there.
Folks, I have moved into making the line edits, which means we are on the home stretch. The manuscript is 888 pages long. I expect it to take 40-50 hours to make all the edits I marked. However, you have to remember that has to be worked in around my day job. Then we do the copy edit. I expect my portion of that will take another 40 hours. And then I take a day off work to create the book in the POD and ebook formats and publish. We are oh so close!
Today was awesome for writing. First, I got five hours in, and I was in flow the whole time. When you’re in flow, you’re in the scene, seeing it, smelling it, experiencing it. It’s awesome.
Second, during my review of the first draft, I came to the final battle scene and realized I’d made it much too convoluted. Way too convoluted. When I wrote it, I thought it was great, but coming to it fresh, it was just too much. So I drew a big red line through all those pages and made a note to rewrite it. Today I got to rewrite that section plus a bunch before and after it.
I have to say I love sheriff Hood, the female character who is teamed up with Frank. The woman is spectacular. And I love this fight scene. I don’t think I’ve ever seen or read a thriller fight scene like this one. Sorry, won’t tell you what it is (no spoilers), but I can tell you I can’t wait to get this out to readers. I’m as pleased with this as I was the snow mobile sequence in Bad Penny.
Have a great weekend.
Dude…
I can’t tell you how excited I am to know a cover artist has been chosen for Servant of a Dark God. And that it’s Raymond Swanland. Check this out.
Without importing his whole gallery, I’ll link to a number of those I like the best. But I have to say the movement, action, energy–even when the people are standing still–are amazing. I think I like most his pieces that are lighter and have more color (and think they’ll match the book’s content best as well), but I can’t wait to see what he comes up with. I think Swanland is just jaw-dropping amazing.
http://www.raymondswanland.com/Pages/Personal%20Gallery/Personal03.html (Love the color and energy; the sky color and figure is just, dude)
http://www.raymondswanland.com/Pages/Personal%20Gallery/Personal01.html (Love the color and energy; again, the sky color…)
http://www.raymondswanland.com/Pages/Illustration%20Gallery/Illustration04.html (the guy’s standing still and this thing is still rippling with energy!)
http://www.raymondswanland.com/Pages/Illustration%20Gallery/Illustration17.html (wow)
http://www.raymondswanland.com/Pages/Illustration%20Gallery/Illustration11.html (color and energy)
http://www.raymondswanland.com/Pages/Illustration%20Gallery/Illustration10.html (movement; I don’t know, some artists just don’t get action right, but this one does, holy crap)
http://www.raymondswanland.com/Pages/Illustration%20Gallery/Illustration05.html (movement)
http://www.raymondswanland.com/Pages/Illustration%20Gallery/Illustration19.html (look at the pov and movement, the belly of the dragon up in the right–have we ever seen this angle on dragons before? It feels like we’re IN the sky)
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I appreciate the shoutout. My blog is severely lacking in readership right now, so all new visitors are appreciated. I’ve also been feeling a little under the weather, so my writing and my reading have been replaced by wandering the internet and feeling lousy. Hopefully both those things will change soon, and I can get some more reviews and a few thousand more words cranked out on the novel. Again, thanks for the link John.