We’ve had our share of rain the last few days. My lawn loves it but between the weather and – honestly – lack of energy, my walking schedule has been ragged.
News:
I spent four days of writing with the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. The goal was to get 25k words in four days. That’s right. Half a NaNoWriMo in 4 days instead of two weeks. That’s 6250 words a day for a four day weekend. I made the count and then some but I’ve been trying to straighten out the story ever since.
The good news is that Cape Grace is just over 100,000 words and I have almost all the pieces. The bad news is that they’re not even close to being in the right order. I’ll get there, but I did myself no favors in constructing this plate of pasta.
By Darkness Forged should be available on Audible tomorrow, April 2. It’s up for preorder now. The paperback is still on my To Do List.
Podium has assigned a narrator for the Seeker’s Tales – Emily Woo Zeller. You can hear a sample for one of her recent books Minimum Wage Magic.
Speaking of NaNo, Camp NaNo starts today. A few of my RMFW buddies and I will be working toward another hair on fire month. I’m going to try to write another novel this month while I’m still working on ironing out this one. I’m behind on my goals but there’s still time.
And speaking of goals, I’ve set a goal to write every day this year. I missed a day in January and few days in February, but this month I’ve written every day and produced 41,231 new words.
That’s it for this month.
Safe Voyage.
I was keeping a credit just for this occasion!
Huzzah! *trots off to order audiobook*
It’s 5:30 on the 4th of April and I have just finished listening to my darkness forged awesome ending but I can’t believe this is the end of the story. I am eagerly waiting for Cape Grace.
Please keep writing… out of all the sci-fi and fantasy that I have listened to on Audible you are still one of my most favorite authors. I am in the process of re-downloading the entire Ishmael Saga and will listen to them again now that there is a ending to the main story. Please please please return to the solar Clipper universe. Are the milk run books coming to audible?
This is not the end of the story. It’s only the end of the series.
Cape Grace is being stubborn but I’m also stubborn!
There will be more Ishmael books after I’ve had a chance to refresh my brain a little.
The Smuggler’s Tales (Milk, Suicide, Home Run) are due on Audible this fall.
Been waiting for this one with interest… the kindle narration function just does not cut it… these stories from Nathan have kept me going on long flights and sleepless nights (thanks to my Tinitus) so a huge amount of thanks and respect to Mr. Lowell…
I, like many would love to hear more from the crew as well as some new tales about the lives of some of the great supporting characters like Chief [redacted] Stevens and the Commandant …
Great work sir…
You cannot understand how happy I was to get By Darkness Forged on Audible. Having Alexa read it was painful at best. But the most enjoyable moment was listening to it on Audible when they first said Wang and pronounced it correctly. My partner let out a big Yeah! startling me to no end. It was quite amusing. With Alexa always saying it as if it rhymed with bang….
Super excited to have a voice lined up for the Seeker series. Looking forward to going through the whole trio of series together on audible.
A question on timeline has come to mind…
I am sure Ishmael is quoted as if not the youngest captain in the fleet, then definitely the youngest owner…
If Pip has paid off a 20 year note from Tom on the Prodical son in just 10 years… would that have not made him an owner at lease a decade before the auction on Jet?? I am assuming he took ownership of the Son once signing the note..
The Prodigal Son is an asset of the Carstairs Corporation. Pip paid it off because every ship in their fleet has to pay its own way but it did not make Pip the owner.
Yet Ishmael refers to Pip as the owner when talking to Roland?
Yes, he did, but Ishmael saying it doesn’t make it so.
You’ll note that Pip doesn’t sell the ship back to Carstairs. He simply has Roland return it.
This is the base problem: “I am assuming he took ownership of the Son once signing the note.”
The note to finance the Son was a Carstairs liability, not Pip’s.
Thank you for keeping such detailed data around. As one who really appreciates continuity in a story, the details that never make it into stories matter, and this is a perfect example of it.
What do you use to help track some of the data that’s important but doesn’t directly make it into stories? I apologize if you’ve answered this before.
I have a wiki that has the source text of the first eight novels in it.
For the later works, and to augment that wiki, I’ve been leaning on my fanbase on Facebook to answer questions I’ve lost track of the answers to.
I do try to maintain continuity. I don’t always succeed. There’s one error that tripped me up early but nobody called me on it before it got embedded … I need to re-write Double Share in order to correct it.
Was that when you used the wrong first name for Mr Burnside in the first narration on Podiobooks??
P.s. I am not trying to trip you up, I just love the stories so much and have listened so often that they begin to matter.
I especially like the subtle touches in captains share like the ice man and the near miss..
No. This is the first time I’m hearing of that one.
I’ve only heard from a few people about an error that’s obvious and in the class of “I can’t believe I screwed that up.”
No, I’m not going to point it out. 🙂
I think its about half way through. If memory serves not of the characters refers to David Burnside as Daniel Burnside, most likely just a slip of the old narrators tongue … I will have to ‘re listen to the book for the biggie you mention…