An announcement about my next book…
Having just published the 14th book of the Unseen Things series, I’ve reached a point where I feel like I need to take a break from it to write something else. That’s not to say I’m ending the series yet, because I’m not. Book 15 will still be coming, but before I write that, I wanted to try my hand at something else.
To that end, I will be writing a standalone book that takes place in the Unseen Things universe, only it’ll be several hundred years in the future. The characters from the series will have long since moved on to greener pastures, and as such weren’t there to defend the Earth when creatures from another dimension launched a devastating attack that killed off a large majority of the population, thereby reverting them back to an almost Mad Max style of living.
The story will focus on two main characters as they make their way through the world, killing monsters and trying to make a living. The male lead will be a total sleaze who tries to sleep with practically every girl he comes across, because in his opinion, someone’s gotta repopulate the Earth, so why not him? His female partner does her best to keep him out of trouble as they travel around trying to protect what’s left of humanity from the monsters that continue to plague man kind.
Will this story turn into a series of its own? No, probably not. At best it might turn into two or three books, but nothing more than that unless I get inspired. The Unseen Things series has been winding down for a while now, and depending on how things play out, the next book may be the last. We’ll just have to see how it goes and where the story ends up.
I don’t have a title yet for the next book, but the premise and the story are starting to come together in my head, so I may start writing it sooner rather than later, and by that I mean I may start writing it in the next week or two.
A little info about the new book (or series)…
Ok, I’ve started writing the next book, as I said in a previous post. This one is called Travelers. Here’s a little more info about it that I didn’t include in the previous post…
Whereas the Unseen Things series was heavily into family, love, honor and relationships as far as the characters were concerned, the main characters in the new one are more of the anti-hero type. The kind of people who are out for themselves and their own survival rather than concerning themselves with the problems of others. That is, unless there’s something in it for them.
It’s a whole different style, and I’m throwing a lot of humor in. Jake is as competent as he is cocky, and if there’s a chick within’ fifty miles that’ll have sex with him, you can bet he’ll sniff her out. Lana is his best friend and long suffering partner. They tried the whole relationship thing once, but when he went and had sex with another girl about eight hours later, she saw real quick that he wasn’t exactly the relationship type. They’ve got each others backs though, and there isn’t anyone in what’s left of the world that they trust more than each other.
The story takes place over two hundred years in the future after the group from the Unseen Things series has already left and moved over to the Nathalis dimension. With no one there to protect the Earth, the Echnids launched a successful attack that wiped out most of humanity before they started setting up bases and stealing the Earth’s resources. Unfortunately for them, someone from the original group happened to come back to check on things in their home dimension, and when they found out what had happened, they used their minds to turn all of the Echnids inside out. Unfortunately, not knowing what dimension the Echnids came from, they had no choice but to go back to the Nathalis dimension and leave what was left of humanity to fend for itself. No one knows what exactly caused all the Echnids to suddenly turn inside out that day, but once they’d all been killed, the humans who were left started scavenging their technology and building settlements. There are still random raids by the Echnids, but for the most part the main threat to the Earth had been wiped away. Unfortunately, another threat arose afterward in the form of roving bands of scavengers called Skinks.
Like I said, this is a whole different thing from the original series as far as the amount of humor and the characters’ personalities. If I do happen to turn this into a series of its own, the series will be called Wasteland Earth. I won’t know if it’ll be the first book of a series or a standalone book until I reach the end and see where the story takes me. Regardless, the book I write after this one will be the 15th and last book of the Unseen Things series, Infestation. After that, if I’ve decided to turn the other one into a companion series, I’ll start working on those.
It’s going to be an incredibly sad thing for me to end the Unseen Things series after I’ve put so much time and effort into it, but I think it’s time to do it. That’s not to say I wouldn’t be open to writing a new series for those characters that takes place in the future, but right now all of my attention will be directed toward the new series after I get that 15th book done and published.
Anyway, that’s where things stand as of right now. If there are any changes in my plans, I’ll certainly post about it.
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