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.

The Star (1st draft) is complete

The first draft of Groom Lake: The Star is complete, way past schedule and weighing in at 10,858 words. I am happy that it is complete; but I know it will need a lot of work in edits and 2nd draft. That will be for next week.

More editing on Duty Calls this week + another first draft will be starting. No rest for the wicked

On top of all this writing I have managed to squeeze some reading in: Fritz Leiber’s Swords Against Death is the active book on the Kindle. I was a late comer to the world of Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, a college Prof handed me an out of print version of Swords and Deviltry and I was hooked.

– Brian Clay