Paul's Author Blog

Moving!

2011-07-20T15:12:00.000-07:00

Moving away.

I'm moving over to wordpress! Wish me luck.

Twenty thousand words and lots of snow!

2010-02-17T01:21:00.000-08:00

My third novel in the Ascension War series is growing steadily. Some interesting paths are open ing up that might end up being removed from the book...but they'll end some place else, I'm sure.

Gaia decided to dump another foot of snow on us the eve of President's Day. So no snow plows in service in my neck of the woods.

The drifts were waist deep today. Needless to say, that is unusal for Kentucky.

Okay! Back to work!

Snowmageddon? Really?

2010-02-06T23:43:00.000-08:00

You know, I really like Obama. He's certainly better than the shrub, but seriously...snowmageddon?

I really hope he was joking. Sigh. It seems in poor taste somehow.

10K words on the latest book!

2010-02-04T22:14:00.000-08:00

It's a good start!

The Hunted is coming together well. The frame story is taking shape. Things are getting more out of control for my heroes --as it should be! Grin.

This one promises even more twists and turns than the last.

Anyway... back to work!

Book updates...

2010-02-02T06:15:00.000-08:00

The Fallen - Book Two of the Ascension War was finished last July.

I've started book three, The Hunted.

I'm still waiting to hear back from Baen Books about Cedeforthy. They contacted me in December, though. I was told they were reading it in January and I'd hear from them in February! Here's hoping!

2010? What happened to to '09...

2010-02-02T06:11:00.001-08:00

Okay, it has been just over a year since I posted here. That's because, for the most part, last year was not a good year. I'm not going into details, but between psycho (no, really) family members and losing my cat companion of eighteen years, it was very, very rough.

Let's pray this year is better.

53000 and counting!

2009-01-12T05:03:00.000-08:00

The Fallen is taking shape nicely.

This is going to be a big book for me. I'm guessing I'm about a third of the way through the part of the story that is earmarked for this second book of the Ascention War series. I'm both looking forward to and dreading the first battle of Dawn in this book. The outline has it at five chapters right now, twitch.

On other topics, life is good. The weather is bad. My hopes are high.

Baen Books has had Cedeforthy for four months now. Keep your fingers crossed my hypothetical blog readers. With economy the way it is... you never know.

Busy working

2009-01-06T19:16:00.000-08:00

Now that I'm over the EGGNOG INCIDENT, I'm back to work on the second book in my Ascension War series: The Fallen.

I'm very pleased with my progress so far, 44,000 words. I've averaged 2000 a day for the past week. If this continues I'll have the book done in a few weeks! Yeah, I know, it'll just be ready for line-editing and rewrites, but still, I'll celebrate.

Drifting away...

2008-12-01T10:46:00.000-08:00

I must be starting a new trend. I skipped November completely.

Wow, has it been that long?

2008-10-31T18:39:00.000-07:00

I get busy typing, look up, and notice that it has been over a month since I posted on here. What happened? Well, I got twenty thousand words into my book and then decided to start over. Sigh. I had to move the story-line forward six months to get to the meat of the story.

I may eventually post the deleted chapters as short stories once the first book is out. Something to bridge the gap to the second, so to speak.

Wind Storm of Doom!

2008-09-19T09:03:00.001-07:00

Okay,

Am I the only person a little freaked-out that Kentucky got hit by tropical storm force winds?

I lucked-out here in Erlanger. I only lost power for three days. There were over eight-hundred thousand homes effected. Some places still don't have power. Yuck!

On a brighter note, I think it is time to send out Cedeforthy to an editor.

Wish me luck!

Back from Albuquerque

2008-09-04T19:42:00.000-07:00

I went to Bubonicon, a science fiction/fantasy convention in Albuquerque. I had a great time meeting everyone. A special thanks to authors Jane Lindskold and Debbie Lynn Smith for their advice and moral support. I look forward to visiting Bubonicon again next year.

I love the Southwest! I want to move out there. It is very pretty and I could actually breathe for once. The air is much nicer than the swamp water I have to breathe around Cincinnati.