Volume VI

Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Indian Ocean to your left, Atlantic Ocean to your right

Increasingly, my thoughts are turning back to Volume VI in The Alarai Chronicles series. I quit writing at about the mid-point well over a year ago now. I like the writing, I think it was some of my best, but I was losing my way. I'm sure it had to do with the way the first book was hanging fire as I wrestled with how to get the word out on a broad basis. I can't speak for other authors, but it's so hard for me to write creatively in a publishing vacuum. This is all about writing for people not an intellectual exercise.

Still haven't solved the publicity problem at this writing but I am convinced it will be solved before the end of the year. Things are about to break in favor of Songs of Deep Green, Exile to the Stars and thus the series - big-time. Now that gets the creative juices to flowing.