Here in Utah, the snow has started. It’s a balmy 28 degrees outside at 3 in the afternoon. The wind is blowing, and yesterday, about 6 inches of the white stuff hit the ground. The weather stations are predicting more snow every day until the last day of their forecast. So, this next week will consist of getting up early, snow blowing the driveway, then watching the plow come by and putting it back. Ah, what fun it will be.

Survival and Dead End

I’m still working on the rough draft of Survival. I passed the 70,000-word mark today. Plus, I’ve been mapping out necessary scenes for Dead End to match up with the plot in Survival. I’m hoping to go straight into book three without a speed bump for planning. These things never seem to go as planned. I suspect I’ll start rough drafting the next book before I finish Survival. Then I’ll ping-pong back and forth to plant foreshadowing in Survival that’ll be rectified in Dead End.

My favorite phase of book writing is the rough draft. My second favorite phase is the part where I’m wrapping up the details and getting it ready for publishing. Finally, there’s nothing more satisfying than the part where I hit the publish button and wait for Amazon to deploy the first EBook copy. That means the project has concluded, and I can shift gears and move to the next project. Ah, a clean slate…

Of course, a long series isn’t really a clean slate, but I always look forward to writing the next book. Right now, my mind wanders between the book I’m writing, Dead End and how I’ll wrap everything up, and book five of the Abyss series. I have all kinds of ideas for book five spinning around my head. I’ll have to coalesce my ideas into a structured story before I start writing, but I have confidence it will come together.

The new cover for Desperate Action is up on Amazon and Draft2Digital. That includes the newly formatted paperback and hardcover books on Amazon. That was a chore but worth it.

Well, back to my writing…