Just because it’s a thing now, I want to make it clear that no AI has been used or will EVER be used in the writing of my novels. The stories all came from my own imagination, and were written using my own writing talent. This thing of people using AI to write books for them, and then flooding the market with said books when people with real talent can’t even get noticed as it is, really pisses me off.

There, I said it.

My writing has been on hold for a long time now due to having severe carpal tunnel syndrome in both hands.  After two surgeries and a long recovery process, I’m still lacking some feeling in my fingers, but at least my fingers are functional enough to type now without having to constantly correct typos.  Unfortunately, after taking such a long break from writing, I was having severe issues with coming up with a new story that actually grabbed me.  I started writing a couple of things, but I just wasn’t feeling them. I know when I’ve got a good story when I start writing and the story just flows out of me naturally.  I don’t even really have to work at it.  I just type and it comes out.

I started a new one the other day that’s kinda feeling that way so far.  I’ve only done the first scene, and it’s going to take quite a bit of world building, but so far it’s feeling good.  Anyway, we’ll see where it goes from here.

Milk the Fruit: Whimsillusion Project Volume 1 is now available in paperback on Amazon.  No e-book yet, and I’m not sure if there’s going to be one or not, but this is the first time I’ve had a story published professionally. This anthology includes short stories by five different authors, and all are based on a writing prompt. The seven items each author had to include in some form or fashion were: a character named Bruce, the name Sarafina, a cabin, a reptile, an egg, a fight, and the line, “Milk the fruit with care.”

I still don’t know what “Milk the fruit with care” means, but I managed to get it into the story, along with all the rest of the items.  It was a fun project. I’ve always enjoyed writing stories based on writing prompts, so when I found this project, I started brainstorming right away.

Anyway, that’s it.  Check it out if you’re interested. 🙂

I submitted a story for an anthology book with a publishing company, and that story was selected for inclusion in the project.  The story was based on a writing prompt, and had to include each of the items they provided in one way or another.  The other day they contacted me, wanting me to provide them with a bio for the book, and said that it would be published on December 2nd, which is kinda cool, because that’s the day before my birthday.  I don’t know the title or any of the details yet, but I will post more when I’ve received that information.

So…yeah.  It’s pretty cool when your work is recognized and valued.  Now if I could just get eyes on my novels, I might actually get somewhere. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to do that. 😛

The Accidental Hero and Cindy’s Story are now available as AI generated audio books on Amazon and Audible.  The previews sounded surprisingly good.  I chose a male voice for The Accidental Hero, and a female voice for Cindy’s Story.  I probably won’t make audio books of the Unseen Things Series, because despite how good the AI is, I have lots of weird, made up names in those books that it probably couldn’t handle, and it would be a nightmare trying to go through each one fixing names like “zethichtalarin”.

So this new book I started, I just finished the first chapter.  So far it’s going well.  Since this book is going to contain several stories, I’m not sure what I’m going to do with the others yet, but this first one is quite fun.  Basically, the book will be comprised of different stories about people who all live on the same street.  The different stories will likely fall into various genres, so hopefully it’ll make for an interesting read.