End of winter

Nice to see winter is giving us its last gasp – wait, probably not. I only say this because this morning was overwhelming with storms! I was online trying to play DC Heroes with friends in the states when lightning and thunder hit. What a surprise! Mind you, I hadn’t checked the Bureau of Meteorology, so it’s my fault.

Not only that, but my desktop decided to shut itself down while it installed updates! Right in the middle of the game! Luckily I’d shut everything else off because we were in the roleplaying section of the game.

In the finish, I had to bow out because the weather kept interfering. So, it’s postponed until next week. (It’s a stay tuned situation.

Anyway!

Updates

Clans in Conflict

Dark Dimensions 1 and 2 will be on Kindle free on the weekend of 17 – 19 October as part of a mega free weekend through Stuff Your Kindle. I can’t wait for this event because lots more people will be able to give me feedback on my writing!

Dark Reign will also be free that weekend, along with Deadly Convergence. It is the ebook version only.

The Dark Road and Dark Beginnings

These are currently on the backburner but I intend to get back into it. I’ve been working on a huge project with a group of fellow writers.

Consequences

Heart of Deception

Cover art is still being rendered – we’re pretty close to having the cover that will appeal, even while keeping some mystery relating to the story.

Legacy of Risks

This is still with the beta reader. Hopefully, won’t be long now.

Dangerous Heart

Once Legacy of Risks is rereleased, I will be looking to release this as well.

Other universes

Paranormal

I haven’t forgotten about these. I’ve been working on the one for Bushland Castle Productions, so that’s likely to be the first one out. And there are going to be questions that readers will ask and I’m aware of that. Some of those questions will be answered in conversations, but the rest will have to wait until the original story comes out.

Strefinobhan

Mal’s story

Still editing this, but I have been busy with other work currently. Will get back into editing it shortly.

Colliding worlds

I have slowed down in writing this one because of said other work. I will reassess what is going on with this when that other work is completed.

Bushland Castle Productions

As mentioned before, I have almost completed a paranormal story for Bushland Castle Production’s Otherworldly Emergence Novella series.

I have completed one for it and am currently editing that. I hope to be submitting that story in the near future. Have to lose almost 3000 words, however. <sigh>

Pitches for this novella series has now closed and we are working hard on our manuscripts to bring them to you in a timely manner.

All of the information regarding the novella series is at the website:

https://www.bushlandcastleproductions.com/emergence

While you’re on the website, is information about their nonfiction series Australia: Living in the 70s. If you have a life story about living in the 70s in Australia, check the website for more details on that series. I know if I were to submit, it would all be about CountDown, Sandman vans and learning about Unionism through school (and other things, of course).

Also check out their podcast – Finding Elara. Learn about Mindfulness from other creatives – not just writers, but other creative persons, as well as worldbuilding and other information.

At the end of each segment, there’s a prize drawn. Go in to win books and other goodies!

Characters

So, last time I talked about my experimental characters and all the things I do to him. I think I forgot to mention the main reason I find him helpful.

He’s my “what can I do to a character that seems plausible?” character. He has taught me how a character should react as a human (or otherwise) in a plot and I’ve learnt a lot from him.

Having said that, my other characters appear to be becoming unruly!

For many years, I have had a secondary character who’s a detective in the police. In fact, he’s been around since the very first story I wrote with my experimental character – before he was one.

Now, because that story started in Perth and the ones I’ve been doing for Bushland Castle Productions (BCP) are based in Perth, everyone is either related to everyone else or knows a huge amount of people.

So, when my “metahuman” story for BCP required a detective’s presence, of course I turned to Ben.

I’ve got a feeling that was the wrong thing to do because Ben decided he wanted “metahuman” powers, too! Not only that, but he wanted to be in my paranormal story for BCP as well. (Didn’t help that he’d already encountered one of the characters previously.) And when I went down that rabbit hole, I realised why he wanted to be in it.

Because he had the “metahuman” ability to deal to make a difference in the climactic battle.

That change allowed me to get past a block I’d had that I had been denying I had. It gave me the added power for my little band of defenders to banish a particularly nasty paranormal entity.

So, give your unruly characters their head. Let them choose their own path if they ask, because you’ll be surprised where they can take you – right to the end of a conflict.

And that’s where I finish this because I just heard thunder. Again!

Talk to you in a fortnight!