Where exactly have I been?

Talk about starting the year off with a bang.

The wife and I took our son out of public school, for the record half day kindergarten is an educational abomination. He is now in a private school and is learning more than the 1st graders in the public schools. The adjustment took some time and helping him catch up took a lot of time; but it has been worth it.

Add to that a pair of herniated discs with a touch of spinal stenous, which manifested in a nearly complete loss of feeling in my right hand, one could say “life has interrupted me”.

So where have I been? Dealing with life.

What does all of this mean? Well in April, I will be seeing a neurosurgeon and will be going under the knife. Following that 4-6 weeks of recovery where I will most likely not be sitting in front of my computer for hours on end attempting to catch up with my writing schedule… and podcasting is surely out as well.

For those that have been listen to the Kingdom Crisis podcast, I am really sorry about the delay in new stories and I can assure you that the podcast is NOT dead, simply hibernating while the podcaster is repaired.

I have a few blog topics that I am going to attempt to get out before I “go dark”.

Thanks for sticking around and I will try to keep the blog updated with statuses.

Sshh, it’s a secret

New podcast content coming soon…

Alas poor schedule I knew you well…

Best laid plans and all those other cliche comments about keeping to schedules can be inserted here…

Solider and His Queen (which still needs a new title) will be delayed. I got the final rounds of edits in at the beginning of this week and due to a range of personal issues I was unable to work on any of the edits, let alone rereads and producing of the podcast episode.

I would like to say I will be ready with an episode next week and then back on track, but as the personal issues are not yet resolved I am unable to commit to that.  So — I do commit to one more episode before the month is over.

Thank you for stopping by and I will keep the blog updated if anything changes.

WM005 Kingdom Crisis: Thief’s Folly Part 3

Welcome to Episode 5! Kingdom Crisis: Thief’s Folly Part 3 is the conclusion of the story about two thieves pulling off their latest job and finding it not as straightforward as they had planed.

Promo: Metamor City by Chris Lester

Thanks for checking out my podcast.

Music by Barry Phillips you can find more of his music at magnatune.com

The Storm of Life and Other Distractions

Well as last indicated I have suffered a back injury it seems that was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to what life was going to throw at me.

Physical Therapy determined that I had several vertebrae rotated out of alignment, neck and middle of my back. So I have been going a few times a week for muscle work and adjustments and the pain is fading.

Now for the curve ball, my son last week contracted H1N1 at 5 years old and an asthmatic my wife and I were incredibly concerned and the struggles to get him to take his medicine resulted in some moments of panic for us. The good news is he has gotten through the worst of it and is back to his normal 5 year old self.

So with my own injury and my son’s illness I have been remiss in my writing schedule and my podcast schedule. As this storm clears I am trying to get things back to normal.

What does this mean?

It means that progress on Life Everlasting has fallen behind my self imposed schedule, which I suppose will not effect the podcast at the moment (we will see how things shake out in February). I am still on track for releasing part three of Thief’s Folly on November 22^nd.

The podcast schedule to follow:

December: Solider and His Queen

January: A Father’s Tears/The Wailing Stone

February: Conclusion of The Wailing Stone

A brief Announcement

Apparently having two children pouncing on your neck is hazardous to your health. I have learned this the hard way. Just over a week ago I was pounced on while being Daddy-Jungle-Gym and since then have been in a significant amount of pain.
After a week of “pain management” I am on the verge of starting physical therapy and praying that I don’t need more invasive procedures to make the pain stop.
So what does that mean for my writing and my podcasting? Well the writing is continuing, albeit at a slower pace my novella/novel Life Everlasting is moving forward and the prologue about halfway complete. The podcast is the one thing that is hitting a bit of a speed bump.
It pains me, no pun intended, it announce that the conclusion of Thief’s Folly will be delayed until November 22nd. This will give me three weeks to get my body back into working order and perhaps get ahead of the podcast schedule. The episode contains some extra editing/fx and recording that needs to be done and I cannot physically sit at the computer for the hours it takes me to prepare an episode… my newness shows here.
I will attempt to keep the blog updated with the latest happenings and should the date for episode 5 changes here will be the first place folks can read about it. I am praying that I am just being overly cautious and that I can release the episode before the 22nd, but we’ll see.
Thank you for understanding and thank you for listening to my podcast.

– Brian

WM004 Kingdom Crisis: Thief’s Folly Part 2

Welcome to Episode 4! Kingdom Crisis: Thief’s Folly Part 2 is the continuation of the story about two thieves pulling off their latest job and finding it not as straightforward as they had planed.

Promo: 7th Son Descent by J.C. Hutchins

Thanks for checking out my podcast.

Music by Barry Phillips you can find more of his music at magnatune.com

Happenings with the Author

Episode 4 is 99% ready for Sunday’s release and I can say that I am getting into a real groove and it is no longer taking 15 hours to produce 15 minutes of audio, though I am still looking for new ways to improve the quality of the podcast.

Today, I finished Tears of a Father, it is about half the length of what I have been writing and while I am sure I could bloat it out I like the shortness of it. We’ll see how it does during reading and editing.

The Wailing Stone, needs more work than originally thought so it is being bumped down the podcasting schedule. Soldier and His Queen will be finding itself into the podcast in November, my readers think that it is the stronger of the two thus needs less time under the knife.

I am gearing up for a novella/novel length piece that will dominating my November (yep NaNoWrMo) and most likely my December. Depending on how it shapes up it will be the story that will start podcast in January/February.

Aside from all of that my night time reading has been occupied with some classics, I am going back to my college days, brushing up on my Middle English and reading Canterbury Tales and let me tell you it is giving me all kinds of ideas for Kingdom Crisis.

Statistics are Fun

The podcast is officially a month old with three whole episodes released and I thought it would be fun to share some numbers.

All numbers have been adjusted to remove hits/listens/downloads by family members.

Subscribers: 19

Interesting fact 13 of my subscribers are in England!

Total (non subscriber listens): 157 (episode 0 – 3)

I am surprised and thrilled that I seem to be finding an audience. To all my listeners, thank you! You have all made my month.

As a side note I think it is interesting that I appear to be more popular in England than in my own country.

WM003 Kingdom Crisis: Thief’s Folly Part 1

Welcome to Episode 3! Kingdom Crisis: Thief’s Folly is a story about two thieves pulling off their latest job and finding it not as straightforward as they had planed.

Promo: War by Mur Lafferty

Thanks for checking out my podcast.

Music by Barry Phillips you can find more of his music at magnatune.com