Halooooooo! LOL Welcome back, Muchlanders and folks from here and there to another fantabulous edition of Weekly Update. So, what’s going on? Well… read…on…
I’ve been busy with writing this past week, or at least trying to be. I’m staying on pace writing this short story and hopefully will have it done by the end of the month. Then it’s back to mysteries and finishing up the next two Kate Gardener’s. I’m getting ready to do some major things with these, I hope… I’ve been crunching keywords, fluffling through genres and categories, and I’m hoping to apply what I’ve learned soon and see what happens…
Oh, this coming week THE COLD ONES is on sale for $0.99… I’m doing a special promo with Art of the Arcane, which will be featuring the book along with many other spectacular fantasy finds. If you haven’t had a chance to read this one-of-a-kind historical fantasy… if you dig all things Celtic and Druish (is Druish a word? *shrugs* Mel Brooks used it so I’m going with it)… Then you must get this book and read this book. Oh, and did I mention there’s a talking horse? Yeah, he’s a horse… that talks… and he’s snarky… so read it… #TeamKieranthePuca
Moving on… back to mysteries… I’m really feeling mysteries lately… In fact, I’m actually looking at some outlines and such that I have, and may be giving them a tweak here and there to see if they could work good in that MST category (MST is Mystery-Suspense-Thriller)… As I said up there, I bit the big one and purchased some analytic data this week to see if my instincts were good, or not. Turns out I was actually going in the right direction with most of what I’m doing… I just need to take it up a notch, as Emeril would say. And I have SOOOOOO many things for Kate Gardener Mysteries… I literally have three and a half pages of loglines, two columns of titles, AND another, um, five “episode” outlines to work from… So Kate, Pierce, Jimi, and all the gang will be around for as long as possible.
I’m not giving up on fantasy, either… The current story I’m working on is fantasy, and I have an idea for a rather cool series of historical fantasy novellas, one of which I have done already. It’s kind of amazing… but I have to get more of them written before I can start showing you… yeah, I know, I’m a tease 😉
Okay, now I must head off to write and get some promotion ready for the week. Until next week, my friends, Peace, Love and Muchness to you all!!! Have a great week!!!
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