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Ugh, so it’s been a while, hasn’t it? I know I’m really terrible about keeping this site updated. I’m trying to be better!

So, since last I posted, the Open Novella Contest on Wattpad has wrapped up. The Sharded Blade (Book 1: Ghosts of the Past) performed well enough to get an honorable mention. But did not win. I did hit all the goals (2k, 8k, and 20k) so that was something, at least.

Oh, well. It happens.

Daughters of Fate Book 3 is now up to Chapter 31. Wow! Chapter 31! Can’t say how many more there are to go over on Wattpad, me being a pantser and all. But the conclusion to my epic fantasy trilogy is coming up soon. Looks like Book 3 will hit about the 120k mark.

Daughters of Fate Book 1 is getting some edits. Basically expanding the descriptions and doing sentence structure edits. Stuff like that. The plot is the plot, as they say. That isn’t changing. Edits have been completed through Chapter 13 as of right now.

There is also another new chapter for Episode 2 of Tales of the Inglorious Brotherhood coming soon. I am so sorry to the fans of this book. It really suffered (in terms of publication of new material) due to ONC. There just wasn’t enough time to publish new chapters of Daughters of Fate Book 3, meet the deadlines for Open Novella, AND keep up on TotIB.

Hoping to get back on track soon and really finish up Episode 2.

There are also some really exciting projects on the horizon once Daughters of Fate wraps up. I want to publish Part 2 of The Sharded Blade. And get Episode 2 of TotIB in the can so that Episodes 3 and 4 can get rolling and conclude Vol 1.

But, I also have these other ideas. Including a twisted tale of Christmas and a story about witches fighting demons based in the same world as my award-winning flash fiction, Nana’s Pet Demon. The Color of Rage (another short of mine) is looking at getting expanded into a full novel-length story title “Enraged”.

And, as everyone knows, Under the Darkened Moon is still hanging out there and waiting to be published. As are a plethora of other stories I have worked on over the years.

We’ll see where the rest of this year takes us, but it should be exciting. And who knows what 2021 has in store!

Hey there, just a quick update on how things are going with Open Novella 2020 over on Wattpad!

Well, I easily made the February 29th 2k word deadline! And, right now, I am well passed the 8k deadline for the end of March. So things are going awesome with The Sharded Blade!

Right now, the story stands at 12,804 words. Part 14 is being finalized now, and that will push the story up to about 14.4k and the 20k minimum will be well in sight.

I’m not going to force the story short, but I do see this part of the story wrapping up between 22 and 25k words. From the looks of things, this is pretty much the FIRST part of a three-part story. I’ll decide how to handle the rest of it after ONC2020 wraps up.

I might publish the remaining parts as their own novellas, or I might just expand the rest of it within the same story. Stay tuned to find out!

As some of you may know, I am currently participating in the 2020 Open Novella Contest on Wattpad. This contest is hosted by the Wattpad Ambassador Corps. and the goal is to write a complete novella (more than 20k and less than 40k word) in the span of about three months and utilizing one of the writing prompts they provide as inspiration.

The official date to enter your first 2k words is February 29, 2020. The next 6k (8k total) are due by March 28th. Then, the whole shebang is required to be completed by April 25th. Read more…