A Spec in Time Series

January is done. Look out February!

THE DOMES is now for sale! That’s one gigantic item checked off my list. YEP, book #2 has been freed into the world.

I have struggled writing this month, it’s not that I’m doing nothing. My time has been used to get The Domes uploaded into all its forms. The cover needed to be finished. That all-important book hook took more than I thought it would. I think it’s good, thanks to a friend, who knew nothing about the book. Then the prep for the release date included reworking several of my web pages to show the second book. For fun, I re-did the Harvesters as well. I know, but I had to ensure it was good for Kindle Unlimited. Then add into that mix, three months of little sleep due to debilitating nightmares, and also the loss of a dear pet a few weeks ago. Yeah, it has been like that.

I have been trying to sit down and work on book three, but the stress of everything has made it difficult. The dreams have been a mixture of pain and fear, life and death. All the things that make one bolt upright in the night, screaming. Fun times. As the final things for the book release finished, I realized that I could use these nightmares. The pain, the emotions, and the fear were all needed within the story. However, not in book three. I went to the folder and opened the document for book five.

I spent three days working on this section. I wrote over ten thousand words. Creating just a basic rough vomit of this section to be. I needed those oneiric concepts of swirling disorientation – of pain, of a world lost, and overall recreation. The whole concept of that section in book five is not a dream, yet it is felt in a partially conscious state of being. Lots of words were put into a book that is three or four years off. It will make that book go faster, perhaps. 10k of puke that will become 20k or more of drafted-out subject matter. If you think of just words, it is basically, one-fifth of a book. I needed to do this thing in that book. Now I will go back to Inception.

Yes, Inception is the name of book three. A teaser of what’s ahead: Read the first two. Oops, that is not a teaser. In Inception, there is still that little matter of a bounty to clear up. That will require the placement of buoys which are proving far more difficult than thought. Spec and her siblings have a shock to their systems which allows Katlin to receive her greatest wish. Lost? That is because you need to read the other books. I have so much to work on Inception in the next months. Of course, I have set myself an unattainable goal date that will be moved back about six times, so I will not share that information.

I’m really enjoying writing this story for Spec. I hope others will enjoy reading it and going through this process with me. Please promote the series as you can. I see a lot of great things in the future as this journey unfolds. 

The nightmares will abate, I know that. Enjoyment is what is important in life. The work to get there may be difficult, but I do my best to enjoy what I can. I could not write this without the love and support I feel from everyone. Thank you. Now, I have some buoys to get up.