Just realized

For all my blathering about Restart, I've yet to put up a synopsis, or at least the working one. I posted it to my writers group, but nowhere else. Probably because at the time I didn't have any place else.

So, I'm going to fix that and hope that my idea doesn't... well, let's not borrow trouble eh?

I'm introducing a host of new characters: Peyton, Thaedra, Galena and an as yet un-named serial killer, plus a host of minor characters.

I've set it here... in Seattle! Hey, they say write what you know and I kinda know the area, so it counts!

So, once more into the breach dear friends!

The general synopsis goes something like this:
  
Peyton DeLaChat liked Seattle. He liked the weather, the scenery and the blissful obscurity. It helped that he'd visited the area before he relocated there. Getting settled was easy, even with no real plan in mind other than reinvent himself. Preferably with as little drama as possible. When women from the area's battered women shelters are being found dead, it wasn't personal, just news. When one of them from his daughter Galena’s shelter is one though, it becomes personal. When he encounters a woman from an old family, who's hunting a drug cartel for fun, life gets distinctly unsettled and annoyingly dramatic.

Well here it is, Sunday evening, the end of a fairly quiet weekend. I've got a clean house and clean clothes and clean dishes. What I don't have is a sense of having gotten a darn thing done! It's annoying. I want to write.. to spend time with my charactures and just see what happens. Sadly, life has a funny way of happening.

I started a new job last week. Working with kids who aren't as up to speed in reading, writing and 'rithmatic, as they used to say. Good kids, but hard work too.

But I digress.. So I haven't gotten writing done. That doesn't mean I've been idle. I've been promoting where I can, tweeting and the like. It's going well I guess.. kind of hard to tell. I did make Soul of Evil available via LuLu  this past week... well okay... late last night. I wonder if I can make the time to create a promo poster for the books?

Oh! My small triumph.. both Soul of Evil and Tales of Bedlam are available through Barnes & Noble!! I feel important now. If you got to te website and type my name in both books show up! It's exiting.

Maybe this next week I'll get work done on Restart. I'd like to. I miss hanging with the charactures in it. They are a much lighter bunch than in Soul. Well... yeah a much lighter bunch, even in their darkest moment they are lighter.

So, Sunday night and the start of a new week. Anything could happen.

Tales of Bedlam Mary Rice

Tales of Bedlam Mary Rice The link is via trindiebooks.com! Lovely people over there! I woke this morning to a delightful  email from Shawna, informing me of my books inclusion on their site and that it was featured for today!

I stumbled across them while looking for ways to promote both books actually. I saw that they handled books that were offered through kobo.com (another neat place) that were free. Hey hey hey says I, I have one of those. So I filled out the little form and really didn't think muc more of it, as I started a new job this past week (more on that in another post folks!) The email this morning brough a smile and a small tear to my eye.

So, to those that are looking for more exposure... for their books!... sheesh.... give trindiebooks a shot. To Shawna and the rest over at trindie a huge huge thank you!!

More hard work

Okay, maybe not hard work as in sweating but still... I'm trying my poor hand at promoting via Twitter. It's an interesting experience... which I'm enjoying, least anyone take this wrong. :) However... all Twitter and no writing do make progress umm...  well... not happen.

To be fair though since I messed my back up this past weekend I haven't felt like much, except pain killers. I've learned that even thinking about writing when one has taken Vicodin just doesn't work. Hey, sharing my poor wisdom here...

I also am suspecting I've hit a pausing point yet again, where I stare at what I've written thus far and go "Uhhhh..." I hate when that happens.. I really really hate it.  What makes it more annoying to me is that I'm writting this in sections. So I look at each section and still get nada! Least you are thinking one or two, let me clarify that it's more like four or five (I think I've lost count). Bleh!

Perhaps later, or.. oh wait, no this weekend, which is busy... umm... well bother. I guess for now I'll go back and poke more at Twitter and tweets and such until something hits me.

Just stuff

Well for one, I changed the look of the blog!  In case you hadn't noticed I thought I'd point that out. It fits this a bit better. Next... after careful thought I've decided to do another print run of Soul of Evil, via CafePress. It's far more expensive to buy it in hard copy than digitally, but it isn't costing me a thing either way, except time.

Soul of Evil - Hard copy

Share the link...tell people about it.. heck, a comment here would be wonderful!

End of shameless promotion! I've actually done some real work on Restart...yay me! More dialog, furthering the story and researching resturants. The last I should do personally, buuut... a little hard to get into Seattle right now, so it'll have to wait.

I've also been poking at the cover a bit. I don't know that I'm thrilled with it. Again, I'd value your thoughts and/or comments on it.