The Gathering Storm Wheel of Time

Finally got my copy of The Gathering Storm.
I'm only about nine (9) chapters in, so far so good. Still seems very much like Robert Jordan.
More to come as time goes on.

Twilight Books

Ok so in an effort to keep up with pop culture [from a purely academic standpoint not to "just fit in," HONEST] and understand what the big deal is I've started reading the Twilight series. I went to see Saw V yesterday and the Teaser #1 trailer ( http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/twilight/teaser_1_lg.html ) and I must admit it really peaked my interest unlike any of the TV spots or trailers I had seen thus far. Plus as many of you probably know, I LOVE vampires, I even are using them in my books I am writing. I went out and purchased the book after the movie and went right home to finish Forever Odd so I could start on Twilight, and I did just that.

I have only scratched the surface of this book however I hope that I can finish it prior to the release of the movie. Those who know me well know that I do not rush reading books, not because I do not enjoy the books, it just always takes me a long time to read books. I hope not to be disappointed in this series and based on the popularity I am guessing that I likely will not be. We shall see...

Book/Series Title Changes

Well, for those of you who were wanting to know the name of my book [book one (1) anyway] well I have good and bad news. Bad news first, sorry you asked for it, you are going to have to continue to wait on the title of book one. The reason is the good news, as great and perfect of a title as it was for book one, it was even better as a title for the series, at least the first half of the series. Most likely the series title will carry for the whole series, but in grand ol' tradition of my home-boy Terry Brooks, there could be a different title for each arrangement.
As my home-boy did with his highly successful series, as you know there was The Sword of Shannara trilogy, followed by the Heritage of Shannara series and I don't have six years to list each arrangement of books.
Well anyway so to update you on the recent changes to the series as a whole that I have made. Currently I have changed the first storyline to a trilogy and a bridge book followed by a sequel storyline. This might not be new to some, but previously I was unsure if the story progression of this style would flow. The bridge book will take place approximately seven (7) years after the beginning of, the untitled, book one (1). The first book of the second suite will take place roughly another ten (10) years later or seventeen (17) years after the beginning of book one (1). As for the length of the second suite, I am unsure if it will be a trilogy or a set of four (4), is there a word for that? a quad series; a quadogy; Does anyone know? Those sound dumb.

Now the good news. What? You thought was the good news? Oh well then I don't guess I'll have to tell you that the title of the series or at least the first trilogy is Shades of Gray.

Book Progress - Update #2

I just had an epiphany.
I NOW have a name for Book one!
It is PERFECT!
I am not quiet ready to release the name yet but check back soon for updates!

ALSO, In the next few days, I will be creating a new Blog for the sole purpose of updating the status of my book(s).

I just wanted to share that with you.

Book Progress

As some of you know, I have started writing a book. The details I have to keep quiet for now but I figure I can at least update you on the progress. Well after a while of not doing much work -- other than in my head -- on my book, I have finally gotten back around to working on it. As many of you know, I have been planning this for a number of years. The content that I have in mind is more than I could successfully cram into one book and even one series, I had planned to do two series and four books in each however I have started to refine that down. The first series should be three books and a bridge into the second series which will probably be three books. Officially the first series will be four, but there will be about four to five years between book three and four.

Over the past two or three months I have been attempting to locate a landmark I needed to use in books one and three. Well I knew roughly where it was, I was just was slightly off. Well this weekend after taking a short road trip up to Monteagle Mountain on Saturday I took a brief detour where I found what I was looking for.

Now that I have found what I have been looking for, I have picked up writing again much more aggressively. I am nearing the point which I will need to go back refine the details for chapters written. Currently, I have of the twenty-one chapters I have defined I would say about fifteen are nearly to this stage. Granted, I will likely need to add about three more chapters just for progression but that is a bridge I will cross when I get there. So if I had to give a percentage of completion of the first book I would say I am around 50 percent. I am not even going to guess where I am on the series or whole series.

Depending on how much time I have to work on it over the next few months, I hope to be done with book one, that includes the detail for each chapter, and well on my way in book two.

I'll keep you updated.