December 2014

I’ve had some delays in my writing schedule as of late for a variety of reasons.  Lack of sleep, spending time with friends and family and just a general sense of burnout have slowed things down.  The burnout in particular is a big part of it I think.  I spent over a year just pounding through one book after another and put out fourteen books.  No one can maintain that kind of a writing schedule without getting burned out to some degree.

I have slowed down my writing schedule for a bit, though I haven’t stopped entirely.  I just finished chapter nine of Travelers this morning and I’ve been thinking a lot about the final book in the Unseen Things series, so things are still progressing.  I’m just going to spend a little more time on other things for the next few weeks.  Things like playing music and video games, and I’ll definitely try to get more sleep.  The sleep issue is probably the biggest factor in all of it.  It seems like I’m tired all the time now, and I’m sick of feeling that way.  I need to get caught up so I can actually function again.

So…to sum it up, work is continuing, albeit at a slower pace for a little while.  Once I start feeling better, I’ll get back to my old writing schedule again.

From now until December 26, 2015, I will be giving away the first book of the Unseen Things series, Origins, exclusively on Smashwords.

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Right now, as I’ve already announced, I’m writing the first book in the new series that takes place in the Unseen Things universe.  Once I finish this one, I’ll be writing the final book in the Unseen Things series.  While that may not be the last book I write with those characters, and likely won’t be, it’ll be the end of that series.  I’m seriously considering doing a new series with the original characters that takes place in the future.  That series will probably take place in the same time frame as the Wasteland Earth series, and may see some random crossover appearances between the two, but each will be its own series.

Now, as for the scheduling of the next two releases.  I’m going to finish writing Travelers, the first book in the Wasteland Earth series, and then I’m going to write the final book of the Unseen Things series, as I said above.  Once that one’s done, I’ll release both books simultaneously, because I’ll be writing an epilogue in Infestation that will reference how things came to be in the new series, and will also reference a specific event that was caused by one or two of the characters in the original series.  I don’t want to have the first book of the new series out without having that one out as well, even though I’ll be adding a forward into Travelers to kind of explain things.

Does that make any sense?  Let me simplify it since I just realized I’m sitting here rambling.  I’ll finish both books and then release them at the same time.  There, that’s all I wanted to say. 🙂