Greetings once more. Excited to announce that my fantasy/horror story 'Embrace of the Spider Queen' will be included in the anthology 'Beautiful Darkness' from Dragon Soul Press, due for release around Halloween. It is a distant sequel to 'Solyn the Scavenger' [All Dark Places 2] and 'Solyn the Slayer' [All Dark Places 3] set decades later and following a different perspective.
I have also just finished the first draft of a novel that takes places just north of the very setting in which the three stories mentioned above take place, but on the other side of the obsidian wall. A subterranean dwarven story. This project got interrupted by another book I'm writing (which was finished but then started getting expanded after a beta read - still some chapters to be written there) so it's good to see it done and, as a discovery writer, finally know the plot. That's how it works for we gardener/pantser types. The first draft is what we use as our outline/plot. So to me, the second draft is when I first feel like I'm actually authoring. The first draft is the process of just pouring subconsciously stored data onto a platform where I can interface with it. The second draft is turning that gibberish into a novel.
It currently sits at just over 77k words, (198 pages in paperback), so I'll likely be adding some muscle and a little fat to that skeleton when I get to the second draft. In the meantime, I have a couple of short stories to write, to cleanse the mental palate, redraft another, and so on... work, work, work.
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