Chris Power - Author

...That  ARGENT DREAMING has had its release date moved back - now due out on September 18th. These things happen. Usually it's because the Ed-in-Chief has to juggle the genres to get an even balance in the release blocks, and there's a lot of paranormal titles out there.

 

I'm in something of a limbon at the moment. What with one thing and another I'm finding it hard to get back into my WiPs, and very soon I'll be taking a six-week semi-hiatus to help DinL attack the humans' half of the back garden. The dogs' half is fine, can more or less be left to nature as it's grass surrounded by bushes. The other half needs major weeding, edging, leveling, a new flowerbed digging and edging, the area where the garden table has to be leveled and paved, and the centre circle laid with pea gravel and the occasional slab. Any writing - always assuming I'm in a fit state to actually sit and think - will have to be done in the evenings.

As of yesterday, WAR TRAIL is up on the Cerridwen Press web site, and that makes four ebooks Terri and I have available. Come August and the release of my ARGENT DREAMING, it'll be five. No idea yet what the sales figures are - if any - but I'm hoping to hear sometime in the next month.

 

I've finished the second draft of SEA-CHANGE, and now I'm waiting on the feedback from two of my beta readers for the next draft. Then I send it off to Elva in Honolulu to have the Hawaiian side of it authenticated. Then, after a long enough break to come at it with a fresh mind, I'll do the final draft and decide what I'm going to do with it. Helen said to send it to her to see if it'll fit into CP, but I'd sort of like to try for an epublisher that also does print books.

 

Now I can get back to FOX HUNT, and as it's been a while since I worked on it, the old 'fresh mind' approach will be a good thing. I've also started roughing out iplot arcs for STARFALL. And both UNDER SEIGE and RAKOSZY'S PLEDGE are simmering on the back-burners...

 

The first draft of Sea-Change is finished, but now the work will start on the second draft to iron out the rough bits. Not to mention the rushed bits! I *know* there is a section in Chapters 32 and 33 that's badly paced, but at the moment I'm too close to it to get a clear idea of how to go about fixing it. Woods and trees, and all that. I'm going to set it aside for a short while to gain a little distance.

 

I'll also have to find another stand-by story to turn to when I'm blocked on the main WiP. Said WiP being Fox Hunt. At least In won't have to look too far for one. There's quite a log-jam in my head.