“He thinks he’s a wizard,” they said.
For five grand a month and a million dollar chaser, Roger Mulligan didn’t care how crazy the old geezer was. All he had to do was keep Joseph Perry Shackleford alive and keep him from squandering the estate for a year.
They didn’t tell him about the pixies.
January had a few surprises but I managed to maintain focus last month and get a lot accomplished.
Where Am I?
| Words for the Month | 77,946 |
| Words for the Year | 77,946 |
| Current WIP (Dark Knight Station: Origins) | 53,966 |
| Streak (110 Days) | 309,623 |
What doesn’t show here is that I finished the preliminary drafts of The Wizard’s Butler and gotten beta reader feedback on it. I’ve seen the cover art sketches and I’m really stoked.
ICYMI: Cape Grace is out
I’ll be pushing out the paperback in the next couple of weeks and Podium has stepped up to produce the Audible versions. No word yet on who will read or when they’ll be available. Stay tuned.
What Else Is Happening?
Home Run should be out though Audible on March 3rd. Pre-orders will be available a week or so before then.
Hostage (Barbarians Book 1) has a full draft. This is the book that my daughter and I are trying to co-write. She gave me her half a few days ago. The ball is in my court at the moment. I’m trying to get The Wizard’s Butler read for the editor so this is on the back burner while she gets her next book – All’s Well In Asgaard – ready for release.
Dark Knight Station: Origins is my current WIP. I needed something to write when I finished the Butler so I picked up and combined some of the ideas that fans submitted to write the origin story of Dark Knight Station and how Verkol Kondur came to run it.
Troy Harbor (Shaman’s Tales: Book 3) will slot in after that. I think. It seems pretty clear from the feedback that people need that closure and I’d rather do it now while the wounds are still bleeding than to heal up from the Cape Grace ordeal, only to rip them open again.
Besides, I’ve got about half of it done already in clipped out stuff from a year trying to write Cape Grace. I’m hoping this one won’t be as painful.
There’s probably more, but the key piece of news here is that the plans that I started working on in October and November have stood me in good stead through December and January. They seem to be flexible enough that they stand up to the day-to-day struggle of staying on top of new words while still editing and producing the works that are in second and later draft stages.
I owe some of that to my Publishing Planner and more of it to the group of writers I’m hanging with – all of whom are cheering each other on while holding us accountable to our goals.
It’s only the first month of 2020, but so far, so good.
“He thinks he’s a wizard,” they said.
For five grand a month and a million dollar chaser, Roger Mulligan didn’t care how crazy the old geezer was. All he had to do was keep Joseph Perry Shackleford alive and keep him from squandering the estate for a year.
They didn’t tell him about the pixies.