The black crow flies to find a new destination...

...that is the sign!

Good afternoon, what I'm hoping is Reader-land! The new computer/gaming room is all set up. Now if I could just get my stubborn email/Kindle to send the file, I can pick up work again on the Fair Weather Friends saga on an actual computer in the comfort and quiet of the upstairs. I'm feeling more creative already!

I've been shaping and reshaping some pretty fun...and, well, dark...ideas for the new book. Things I never thought of that taking this long to mold the whole thing together has made rather serendipitous. I will reveal this much: I'd like to spend more time on (and in) Rhye, what kind of beings inhabit it and just how their beauty weighs against their lethality. And I'd like to venture into the Forest of Sorrow, give Astra (and us) a look firsthand into the place the darkest of spirits call home.

In the meantime, here's some reading to tide us over: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, Autumn in the Abyss, and you can make me a little jealous with North American Lake Monsters as I want it but have put myself on a personal book-buying ban until I finish some of the ones I've started. :3 With early access to the Elder Scrolls Online, that ban might be in place for a while yet...

I've got it! I'm gonna call my series: the Fair Weather Friends saga. Can't ya just see it now, with a little logo with a W and the Fs like wings on either side? It's perfect! :)

First blog post as an author...

So... Since I'm working on a series, I've been really thinking about what I want to call that series. Initially I wanted to call it something along the lines of the 'Lap of the Gods' in keeping with the heavy influence of Queen and their early albums. But, for what I have in mind now, I'm thinking maybe that's not the best name.

One of the reasons I liked that title was because it left it open for me to focus on more than just Astra, but I like telling things from his perspective, albeit in third person. He has a unique perspective and take on things, being so new to god-dom and all.

Work on The Black Crow Flies (still kind of a working title) could be steadier, but I think that will be resolved once the PC gaming room/office is all set up. Then I won't be as easily distracted, writing on my Kindle while the TV stares me in the face, the Xbox beckoning me to turn it on and visit Astra and Reinbert in their Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen incarnations.

For now, it's back to the Xbox and Ergo Proxy. I've never seen it from the beginning before and it's one hell of a show.