As it stands, officially, I have one book published.
Unofficially, I have two books—subtitled Reckonings and Convergence—submitted,
along with the Revised/Edited version of Book I. They were placed into a single
document and sent to Battlefield Press. Hopefully, in the next couple of months,
there should be a Kickstarter for an omnibus… hopefully!
For explanation, Book I was published with issues in
terms of editing. Originally written in word 2007, it was reopened in Word
2016, and through it and Grammarly, going over the work multiple times, I
corrected in upwards of 1800+ grammatical errors alone. Along with these
corrections, came scene transitions and several scenes scattered throughout the
book which were reworked and cleanup to read better than before. Lastly, I did
my best to fix whatever dialogue errors that were present.
Obviously, there are some things that might have escaped
in some form or fashion because it was too minor to be noticed. However, Book I reads
better than before.
Book II received double-fold treatment, first in the form
of a young man who offered to edit after reading my first book—and happily
wrote him a letter of recommendation for that. The other was through Grammarly;
there’s always something that could be missed, and it was combed through to fix
any possible error. I had fun writing Reckonings and look forward to seeing it
in print!
Book III was a small challenge, partially because it was
a change of pace, and partially because work and health had gotten in the way. At
first, I considered it a train wreck of a story, but as I put everything
together, it read better than I expected. It received a heavy-handed editing
treatment to make sure things everything was as grammatically sound as I could
make it. In the end, I found myself enjoying the book, even becoming a little
sentimental over it.
Which leaves Book IV. I have plot, subplot, and even
metaplot worked out, with a few minor things shifting here and there. It’s just
a matter of stop getting distracted and use the time that I have to type. Though
I think some of that distraction has come in the form of waiting for the first
three to be published. I just have to keep my head afloat, one word and
sentence at a time.
