April Fool

Posted on by Nathan

Well, March was fun. Not really. It did yield decent results and I’m not sick so let’s work on the positive.

First, the numbers

March: 84,346
Year: 225,826
WIP (Troy Harbor)44,931
Streak Words: 463,497
Days in a Row: 170
Average words per day: 2,726

STATUS

Audio:

  • Home Run is currently available on Audible. It dropped March 3.
  • South Coast is in production at Podium. Jeff Kafer will narrate. No word yet on schedule. I’ve contracted with Podium to produce all three Shaman’s Tales.

Paper:

  • The Wizard’s Butler should be available in paper this month.

Ebook:

  • The Wizard’s Butler dropped a couple of weeks ago. I haven’t even started thinking about audio for this yet.

WIP:

  • Hostage (Book 1 of the Barbarians series) is in second draft. This book will be a while in production because I’m co-writing it and we both need to agree on the draft before we give it to the editor.
  • Dark Knight Station: Origins is in second draft stage. It’s a mess and will take some time to get hammered into shape.
  • Troy Harbor – the last of the Shaman’s Tales – is the current “new words” project I’m hoping to wrap that up in the next week. I’d like to wrap that series up before I forget too much about the story line.
  • Next project will probably be the first of a new Ishmael series.

What am I reading?

I haven’t started it yet, but it’s next on my hit parade.

Glynn Stewart is one of the few writers I buy without sampling first. If you’ve been following his Starship’s Mage series, the next book dropped last month. I’ve got a copy already and should crack it open tomorrow.

Mountain of Mars

Last Words

March brought a lot of changes for a lot of people. My situation here didn’t change that much. The four of us in the household weren’t known for rampaging around town to begin with so the only real changes involve how many trips I make to the grocery store a week.

Maintaining focus. That’s been the real challenge.

Not to say the month didn’t have its high points, starting with the release of The Wizard’s Butler. A few friends and I also got together to run the spring NovelRama event where a bunch of crazy people tried to write 25,000 words in 4 days.

The event proved to be as much fun and exciting as it’s always been. So many people who never thought they could do it proved themselves wrong. Just goes to show what happens if you can put your butt in the chair and stay focused on the task for a few days.

Thanks for all your support. I’m hoping April will be less stressful and that all of you stay sane and healthy.

Safe Voyage.

9 thoughts on “April Fool”

  1. Cap’n, to you and everyone in the club, pray stay safe. We would all prefer you and yours to stick around and continue writing! (just grabbed The Wizard’s Butler, as I have read all my library books)

  2. Cap’n — Just wanted to second your recommendation for Starship Mage series. I started reading that after I finished rereading the Solar Clipper series, Thanks for sharing!

  3. A few weeks ago i stumbled across Milk Run on audible, I downloaded it half expecting to it to be another addition to the space operas with space ships on the cover that I DNF.
    But I fell in love with your world and character building, people you can really feel and predict their reactions becuase you know their characters so well.
    So now I’ve finished all the smugglers tales and the seekers tales and am working through the traders tales (just started captains share), not the traditional order I know.
    My wife has been complaining that I always have my headphones in, in short I’m ADDICTED, but I’m going to run out of books soon. At which point I’m going to resorting to refreshing this website constantly hoping for fresh word on when my next fix might be available.
    Your work is amazing, I hope to continue listening to your stories for many years to come. Thankyou very much

    Loz

  4. Nathan!
    I may be late to the party but I just discovered your wonderful books! I have listened to Trader Tales and South Coast and just finished Ravenwood. All I can say is thank you! You are so very talented, your words paint a beautiful picture in my mind. I will hunt for more of your gems… but needed to pause and say thanks! Really am enjoying your stories!!

    1. Thanks. I’m always glad to have people find and like my work, whenever it happens 😀

  5. Thanks for your stories — great characters, believable and human, entertaining and addictive.

    Specifically, thanks for The Wizard’s Butler! I did NOT see that one coming, sort of a low curve ball but it was over the plate and a strike. Please don’t stop with this one as you’ve laid in plenty of hooks for a few more books. The jogging female friend — maybe his girl friend to be? The Wizard’s successor. What to do with the manor? The Pixies and Fairies have to get a more noticeable role, don’t they?

    This story is too much fun to let it wither on the vine!

    Thanks for expanding my reading experiences.

  6. Long time follower of the Solar Clipper series, first time commenter. Completely second John’s comment, wish I’d thought of that because it’s such an apt description. Did not see it coming at all, slow curve for a strike. Really enjoyed Wizard’s Butler and ideally it will be the first of a new series.

    For what it’s worth, my daughter (early 20’s) and her friends have really gotten into Animal Crossing lately (I had to ask her what it was, and then look it up – and no this is not a plug, never played it). I asked her why, since it’s not the typical sort of game these days – no big quests, fights, explosions etc. Her answer was that they all found it soothing, and that’s what they were looking for. Had to laugh, because that’s pretty much exactly how I found your newest offering. Quiet, calming, enjoyable, some interesting story lines to play with. Well done, going to leave a glowing review on amazon and hopefully it will find many more readers.

  7. Since Dark Knight is an “Origins” story, please consider doing a series of the founding of the Western Annex.

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