First things first, A Warm Place 6 is out now!
To those of you who have already finished it, don’t worry, I’m already beginning work on A Warm Place 7. I know it says that the book will be released in August, but I did that give myself a little bit of leeway. At worst it should be early August. If we’re lucky, I can get it done before the end of July! (Fingers crossed.)
This next A Warm Place is going to get grimmer and more intense. I’m hoping people like it as it focuses more on the action and survival aspects of the universe and will note an overall tonal shift in the narrative.
Now, about the second collection, I did fully intend to get it out by now, but a technical difficulty delayed it. It should be out within the next week.
Let’s talk about the future.
In my last update, I said I planned on starting or had started a few projects. June was a…confusing month for me. There’s a lot going on in my life right now in the background and I’m dealing with some other stuff. Ultimately, it’s nothing life-changing or terribly bad. But I did have a few duds.
After working a bit more on the sad/happy Sci-Fi Series, I felt something was off with it and, in a rare move, deleted everything I’d written. It just didn’t feel right. I still like the overall plan I have for the story, but it needs to go back into the darkness for now.
I began working on that new Post-Apocalyptic Series I was talking about, but it ended up getting completely, utterly, totally eclipsed by another project. It’s not gone, just delayed.
My fantasy caveman story. I’ve been mentioning it for years now, and the urge to write something like that has stayed with me the entire time. Near the end of June, I sat down and started planning. I intended to just sketch out some basic ideas but as I got started all this stuff just poured out of me and I planned out an entire universe and 15 novels worth of stories. So………that happened.
In short, I’m working on that story in the background now. I’ll probably be ready to actually discuss it next month.
The last thing I want to say is something I touched on last month. A Warm Place has really changed things for me. Like, it’s selling at a pace that I only dreamed of before. I still can’t say for sure, because life is unpredictable, and an indie writing career is even more unpredictable, but if things continue in this fashion, then it definitely puts off the need to start a new pen name or start up a store on my website for awhile. I mean, I can write enough A Warm Place content for easily the rest of 2021 and probably several months into 2022. And although I’m less sure about this new series, if it does as well as A Warm Place, then it’ll carry me safely into 2024, maybe even 2025 if I can slow the pace of releases even a little bit.
Dear lord, if I could afford to take 6 weeks instead of 4, that would be amazing.
So anyway yeah, that’s what’s up for July. Full steam ahead on A Warm Place 6, A Warm Place Collection 2 soon, and fantasy caveman novel being written in the background. I am so psyched for that one.