I am currently working on my second book, tentatively titled “Doorway.” I finished the rough draft near the end of April, but I didn’t like the storyline in Act III. It seemed weak, so I ripped it out, re-outlined it, and rewrote the rough draft. Now that I’m satisfied with my first draft, I’ll be going through the whole story again and making sure I plug any plot holes and add any material I think will improve the story. Then it’s on to the grammar, spelling, showing vs. telling, etc. Maybe mid-June for a release day.

I’m also working on a cover for this book. I keep tweaking a cover that I started, but I won’t release the book with a boring cover. I’ll probably end up hiring an artist to complete the cover.

Then there’s the elevator pitch, back-cover description, etc.

What’s the book about?

The basics of the story are that a small child, who is accompanying his parents to a military dig site, stumbles into a dimensional doorway machine that the military has dug up (the kid runs off, things happen and the parents never saw where he went). After this incident, he can see aliens through a dimensional divide between our world and the alien world. He and his parents think he is seeing ghosts. Eventually, his parents take him to several doctors until someone prescribes something strong enough that he can no longer see the “ghosts.” All this time, the military is denying everything about the device that they found (and the parents never saw).

Life goes on until he is in college and tells his story to some friends of his. They are intimately interested in his ability to see ghosts, so they talk him into going off the meds. This is where the story gets into Act II and some things get twisted.

That’s where I’m going to leave the story description for now!