The Muddle That Is the Writer’s Brain

Sword’s Edge Chronicles book four, The Reluctant King, is with my amazing copy editor. Yes, yes, my readers, it’s getting close now!

I’m supposed to be polishing a twenty-plus year old manuscript entitled Haladhon, hopefully to be released by the end of summer.

So naturally, I had a very bizarre dream last night, which made my brain jink sideways into thinking about the Deuces Wild universe.

This caused a long conversation with my son (long story short, I borrowed “his” universe when I first started writing DW, and his mind is where much of Carter’s genius—or insanity, depending on your point of view—comes from), and we have a basic plot premise for DW4.

So I’ll be trying to organize stuff for DW4 while rewriting Haladhon.

Let’s see what happens.

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It is Finally Finished!

Yes, you heard right! The fourth book in the Sword’s Edge Chronicles, tentatively entitled The Reluctant King, is finally done!

Now to send to beta readers, then polish it, then send to the copy editor, then recheck everything because, you know, typos are worse than roaches at surviving anything and everything, then finally—it will be ready.

Interested in my attempts at a blurb? I hope so, because here it is:

Maradhor and his new bride flee for their lives, pursued by his former clan who have now become their enemies. With the treacherous mountains looming ahead and the harsh winter weather closing in, their only hope of salvation lay in crossing the distant Great River.

But even as they struggle towards safety, Alcandhor faces his own troubles back home. Forced to take the throne in order to protect Maradhor, he now confronts the terrifying possibility that his friends may have fallen into peril and are beyond his reach.

As he grapples with the weight of his newfound kingship, his ex-wife returns, demanding to be made queen or else she will take away his beloved daughter.

To add to the turmoil, the return of the Enaisi, a mysterious and powerful alien race, throws their society into even greater chaos.

And just when it seemed like things can’t get any more complicated, Alcandhor also has to contend with a band of scheming nobles, each vying for his favor and with their own hidden agendas. If they feel threatened, how far will they go to protect their interests? Assassination?

What do you think? Fairly interesting?

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Drum Roll and Fanfare!

I think I have a name for the fourth book of The Sword’s Edge Chronicles:

Honest!

Ready?

Truly?

Here we go…

I hope you like it…

The Reluctant King

*bites nails*

So do you like it? Yes, no, maybe so?

Go Ahead – Ask Me!

Go home, Amazon, you’re drunk!

Amazon sent me an email asking if I ever wondered if my reviews were getting noticed.
Then they assured me that they are and to keep it up by reviewing more products.
They then suggested I review my own book, Sword’s Edge.

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Wrong World!

While working on the latest novel in the Sword’s Edge Chronicles I got caught up in dialogue and nearly quoted Shakespeare.

Oops!

Not only wrong planet, but wrong universe!

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WOW! I found a MAJOR mistake in one of my books.

And no one has commented on it! If you have read the Sword’s Edge Chronicles, I dare you reread book three, Laws and Prophecies, and see if you can find a whopper of a mistake.

I was gobsmacked. How did I manage such a tremendous OOPS! in the story?

I won’t attempt to fix it. I’ll let anyone who reads carefully enough take me to task.

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Scatterbrained!

Why, yes, what little brain I have is more scattered than I thought!

I realized 67k words into Sword’s Edge untitled book #4, that I forgot an important subplot.
sigh

So now I have to backtrack and insert the subplot, make sure everything meshes and isn’t thrown off by it, and see where it takes me.

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Meanwhile, if you haven’t and wish to catch up before I finish SEC#4, book one of the series is only $0.99 in ebook.

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Solving all your problems!

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Honest, it will!

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Check ’em out!

(h/t to Jonathan Edward Durham for original problem-solving post)

Why Writing Takes Forever

(Apologies for language, but daaaang this is so true!)