Hey, my loyal readers, I am happy to say I’m making progress with the Consortium prequel. It seems like I am on track for a summer release as I had hoped.

So, here’s my process, in case you’re curious. Sometimes I will write an outline. Most times, I don’t as I usually take the book on a different path from the outline. However, the outline comes in handy with the opening of several chapters. Once I feel I have finished the first draft of the book, I go back and read it like one of you, a reader. That’s where I see all the mistakes in grammar, continuity, and shit like that. I rely on a pair of mark up pens for this task. They dry up way too fast.

Then I go back to the beginning and do a first edit. This takes the most amount of time, as I don’t like turning over poor manuscript to my editor full of crappy things I could fix. Over the years, I’ve gotten better at editing, as I learn more with each pass. This edit is mostly for grammar and spelling. Then, you guessed it; I do it again, adding continuity and fixing poor sentence structure to the process.

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A Wild Couple of Months.

Yes indeed, it’s been a wild couple of months.

First off, sales of my latest book, ‘Retribution’, are doing well. Thank you all who spent their valuable time reading it, and all of my new readers who are reading the entire Consortium Series. So many of my readers wrote me the nicest comments about the book. Some wanted me to end the Consortium all together. Others were glad I didn’t, although they were delighted that I put the hurt on them. Yes, Virginia. There is a Santa Claus and there will be a book 7 in the series. I’ve already started writing it.

Impediments

Complicating my life and adding more memories were a series of events that complicated my wild couple of months. As many of you know, we are deep into the holiday season here in the U.S. It starts with Halloween, then into Thanksgiving, then Christmas and ends with New Year’s Eve and Day.

For me, I was so fatigued that I had zero energy to do much with Halloween, my favorite holiday. I now live in a 55+ community and they mostly don’t celebrate it much. More to the point, no one goes trick or treating in my neighborhood, so what’s the point? Fortunately, this will give me ample opportunity to go to the various haunted houses, hay rides through the dark forests where ghouls and goblins live, and maybe a party or two. But, I just took a tangent.

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Making Progress with the Consortium Prequel