In the Hours of Darkness - Release date 9/29/2015

In the Hours of Darkness has both a release date and a cover now.



I swear I got the prettiest cover on all of LT3. It's by Daunt, a new artist to LT3's collection of cover artists. She's going to do the cover for the second book too and I may die of happy.

LT3 is also doing its spiffy summer sale, so through August 12 it's on special sale for 36% off cover price! Score!

Accepted for Publication

So, late last night I got word from Rykaine that LT3 accepted both of my stories for publication.

The long story is the story of Jeremey Jasper, now titled For Promise Yet Unbroken. Some longtime readers may remember this as the story casually referred to as "Space Cowboys."

The short story is the prequel to Promise, about Charlie Colcord, titled In the Hours of Darkness. This one has been doubled in length since its original release owing to the fact that I really only covered one side of the issue when it was first posted and to be fair to both characters I needed to fill in the other one's side of things. I think it does more justice to them now.

There may at some point in the future be a third story, owing to the fact that I'm quite fond of a side character who makes an appearance in Jeremey's story, but the idea is nebulous at best and a long way off at any rate.

Christmas Story: A Gift of Love

A short (5k) Christmas crack!fic just for everyone who needs a dose of fluff and insanity to top off their holiday.


A Gift of Love

Writing, writing

I dusted off the prequel to the long story I just completed and just about doubled its length. It still works as a standalone but it works even better, imho, as the prequel that it is. Adds dimension to the characters and all.

Both have been submitted for potential publication, so keep your fingers crossed for me.

Took a week off from writing while I was visiting my grandparents since I was working hard to get some things done for them that they are no longer capable of doing for themselves. Now I'm working on another story I abandoned years ago and so far that seems to be working out fairly well for me. I may need to go back and do some revisions to the beginning of it since the more I get into this thing the more convinced I am that I had no bloody clue where I was going with it when I started it. :3

On the up side, I added over 700 words to my outline and finally have a reasonably good idea of how this puppy is going to end. Or more accurately, how it's going to climax. The end-end is still somewhat eluding me but I've got a ways to go before I have to deal with that. ^^;

On the down side, I still suck at writing smut. -__-

Story Complete

Well, as of about five minutes ago, I finished the story I've been working on for the last month. It clocked in at just a hair over 57,000 words.

It is by far the longest and most complicated thing I have ever written and for at least the last 10k worth I was seriously hating the whole thing. A lot of things have changed in my life since the last time I wrote a full story of any length and that was very evident while writing certain parts of it. Still, I think I managed to pull it off in the end. I hope so at least.

It's been handed off to my betas so we'll see what they think and then... you know, I have no idea what happens then. Guess I'll find out.

Back in the Saddle

After a very, very long hiatus. I'm writing again.

It was almost literally like flipping a switch. For so long I had absolutely no inclination to scribe words, then suddenly I did. We'll see how long the switch stays on.

For now, I've written 7,700 words in three days. Wish me luck.