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Book 5 of the Raven of Iskandar series is now in the second editing round. I’ve gotten it back from Yvonne and, thank God, there was a lot less blue on it. In a perfect world, all you would need is one round of editing, but the human brain doesn’t seem to work that way.Continue reading “Second Editing Round for Book 5”

Book 5 of Raven of Iskandar is now off to the editor. Well, actually, it’s already come back with lots of red (Yvonne actually uses blue). Ugh. Book 5 will be named Raven: A New Season. I’m thinking of dropping the ‘Raven:’ part. Originally the plan was to have different book named for different charactersContinue reading “‘A New Season’ is off to the Editor”

This is a excerpt from the next Raven of Iskandar Book (Book 5). Tentatively, the title is just ‘The New Season’. Raven returns to Central and we have the return of a character from Book 1. This scene seems to have come out pretty well for someone who never had a music instructor (me). NoContinue reading “Excerpt from Book 5 (Coming Soon)”

Plus an update on Book 5 at the end. There is one attribute about writers that may not be obvious. Depending on your chain of thought, it might seem to be a contradition. Writer are big readers. (No, they don’t need big letters or big words!) Writers like to read almost as much as theyContinue reading “Mingling the Real and Unreal”

The writing on Book 5 has just topped 64,000 words. Not sure what the final word count will be but probably over 100,000 again. Not satisfied with a title yet. It was originally meant to be called Vysse: Bestmartin, but I found that I’m writing more about Iskandar Prime than Vysse. Vysse does play aContinue reading “Update on Book 5 of Raven of Iskandar”