Status update 50k – 50%

I’ve reached 50k words on my current manuscript! 62 days remain for my target. As you can see that is about half of the total planned. You never know what will happen, though, it could end up being more or less.

Previously I’ve talked about the title being “Finality – Earth”, but I’m now leaning toward a trilogy title “Frailty” and book one title “Blood of Earth”. So it would appear something like this:

Blood of Earth
Frailty book one

I’ll need beta readers in April, but more info will be shared on that in March.

Finality Series Announcement

Many of you know that I wrote a fantasy novel by the name of The Wilden last year. I got it done, sent it to an editor, and received it back.

Then I decided not to continue working on it.

Many authors have shared this same story, not the story in the book, but the story of writing a novel then scrapping it. I can relate. I’m not saying that my first book won’t ever be fixed up and finished, but really, to do something well takes practice and sometimes practice means scraping the first attempt.

I’m okay with all of this. Doesn’t bother me at all. But I do accept consolation chocolates.

What I do want to do is announce what I’m currently working on. This will be a series of science fiction novels set in the Frailty universe. The first three books are called Finality Earth, Finality Venus, and Finality Mars.

I have an attempt at a synopsis for Finality Earth:

After a wave of prehistoric creatures attack the cities of Earth, humans gather together in walled villages to survive. The pace of technological advancement has slowed, but the space age has managed to come about regardless. Starlight Glas, a cargo pilot, gathers a crew together to make a delivery when she uncovers the truth about the beasts that plague the Earth.

I’ll be done with the first draft in March 2022, then spend a month editing on my own, and a month or two having a professional do some editing, then it will go into beta reading just before publishing on Amazon sometime before fall, hopefully, August (If I decide it’s worthy). The latest date would be October. I’ve never done this before so it’s part guesswork and part knowledge based on the previous work I’ve done.

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