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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.

After a frustrating first chapter of trying to work on a story that I just wasn’t feeling, I set aside the book I’d been working on and took another break while I tried to come up with an idea that felt right.  Well, yesterday…that idea came to me.  It’s not fully fleshed out yet, but I did get started on the first chapter, and it’s already been pretty fun.  I’m looking forward to see what comes of it.  “But don’t you know?” you may ask.  Well, like pretty much all of my books, I just start writing, and whatever comes out, comes out.  I write what feels right to me as I’m typing.  That’s just how I work, and so far I’ve been really happy with the results.

Anyway, I’ll post an update now and then on the progress.  No title yet of course.  That’ll come to me as I flesh out the story. 🙂

Just did some cleanup on the site.  Some WordPress updates changed things, so line break tags were showing, and horizontal rule lines were showing text instead of a horizontal line.  I also removed one of my author interviews that used to be on Smashwords, but is no longer there after they merged with Draft2Digital.

Other than that, not much going on other than a nagging shoulder injury, and cleaning up a massive 3-bagger poop dropped by the smaller of our two border collies at 4am this morning.  That was just bizarre.  It was like his butthole opened up a portal to another dimension, and the beings on the other side just started shoveling poop through it. 🙄

The idea I had for a new book wasn’t really gonna work out as a whole book, so I started working on one I’d abandoned previously, and perhaps some elements of that idea I had will make their way into this book.  The reason I abandoned this one was because I started writing it, just to see if an idea would come to me while I was writing, and it did, but it wasn’t a complete thought, and still isn’t.  In the absence of any other good ideas though, I figured I might as well give this one another try.  Just getting through the first chapter though was tedious at best.  See, I have a specific word count minimum for each chapter in each of my books, but for some reason, it felt like the more I wrote in this one, the slower the word count added up, which is frustrating at best when you still don’t have a complete idea of where you’re going with it.  I mean, I do have some thoughts, but nothing detailed.

The funny part is, I never really know what I’m going to write in any of my books.  I just start writing, and it all comes out as it should.  Hopefully, I’ll hit a point in the second chapter that’ll lead me down that path.  We’ll see what happens.

Anyway, that’s it for now.  Lots of adulting and the election and some other stuff I’ve had to deal with kept me away from writing for a while, but now I’m trying to get back into the flow of things again.