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Book List
Currently in Print Here’s where you can find my published works (and audiobooks): The Seven Coins: Convergence – eBook or Paperback The Seven Coins: Silke’s Story – eBook or Paperback The Last American – eBook or Paperback Unchipped: The Last American – eBook or Paperback. Audiobook at: In Progress I’m actively writing the following, all…
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The Next Story in the Series
I thought I had a real head start on my next story while The Seven Coins: Convergence is in Alpha Reads. I was wrong. Even though I have a completed draft, it was written before I really zeroed in on some key character attributes and motivations. It was crafted through a different lens than that…
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The Seven Coins Universe
As I’m approaching the finish line on the second book in my series (chronologically, the fourth), I thought it might be helpful, especially for Alpha and Beta readers, to see my vision for the series. The series arc spans a score of millennia and multiple universes, but it does, in truth, center around a single,…
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How a Story Starts
Want to know how a story idea starts? For me, ideas for the Seven Coins series have emerged over the past three years. In that time, I’ve tweaked and morphed the global story maybe a dozen times. I like things to interconnect and overlap, so mapping out ideas and their connections is important. Last night,…
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Closing in on Close Third Person: Learning from Dan Brown
In writing The Seven Coins, I’ve had the hardest time getting the Point of View (PoV) right. I started with an omniscient narrator, but he started getting a little snarky and my characters weren’t coning across well. Then I moved to what I thought was third person, but I was head-hopping. Head-hopping, I learned, is…
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Why I’m Focusing on a New Book for NaNoWriMo
I’m starting this blog as I approach the finish line on my first draft of The Seven Coins, which I hope will make a solid showing as a debut novel. I’ve been working on this book for over a year now and I’ve written (and retained) over 140,000 words. I expect it to top out…