So the steampunk/fantasy story has been turned in. Not sure when it’s going to be released but it’s in Loose Id’s hands now and off my back. It’s called Surseine Judgment and I’ll keep you posted.

Meantime, I’m going back to the rockers. No, not the Indigo Knights. Not yet. This one’s still Heaven Sent. Gretchen Hobbes, their manager, is getting a story. Yes, I know, girls in yaoi? How could I? Well, I’m hoping my dear readers can forgive me this one. I thought Gretchen really needed a story. And, if it’s any consolation, she gets two men. That help? In preparation for this story, I’ve been re-reading the HS books for the last week and making sure I’ve got my facts straight on them. I should be ready to get started this weekend. It’s called Heaven Sent: Revelations. I guess it’s technically book 6 but it feels like kind of an off-shoot. But, with this addition, maybe Genesis can go into print.

Some of you may have caught wind that I was going to start the next Dark Elves book after Judgment. Well… I was going to do that. But after a fantasy epic that kicked my ass and Dark Elves 5 that kicked my ass, I figured I needed a fantasy world break. Oh yeah, I had Unicorn and About Somthing in between there, but both of those were relatively short pieces. Dark Elves 6 promises to be longer and a tad complicated so I switched things around to give myself a break. If all goes as planned, the elves should be my next project after Revelations.

Let’s see, what else do I have planned…? Devon Cream, About Something, and Pulling the Dragon’s Tail should all come out in anthologies sometime this year. I plan to not sign up for any anthologies for at least the first half of this year in favor of doing books. I do plan on getting started on the Indigo Knights this year. I’m trying to put together the synopsis for Leashed 4 to send in any day now. I’m planning a sequel to One For The Team. I have an m/m Robin Hood idea that I’d really like to get started on and I just might go back to my “big book” sometime this year, if schedule permits.

That’s all I can think of at the moment. Busy, busy! Thank you all for staying tuned!

BTW, the best way to keep track of all of my books and works in progress is on my website. I do my best to be very good at keeping it up to date and entertaining.

I’ve come back around to a story that involves building an entirely different world. It didn’t really hit me until recently, but before my latest project, I hadn’t built a full world since the Dark Elves. The Leashed world is pretty much modern day with a few changes so that doesn’t count. Heaven Sent is based on the real world, so that doesn’t count.

For the elves, I had to come up with an entirely different way that things worked. There was magic and a medieval sort of setting not to mention a race of elves that lived underground and never saw the sun. So that took some adjustment, to say the least. But it turned out okay.

Now I’m dealing in another fantasy world. This one’s closer to steampunk. I won’t claim to be a huge follower of steampunk so it’s certainly my own version of things. There is technology but it’s more circa the 1800s. Modes of transportation are mainly trains and horses, although I think there may be some rudimentary automobiles. There is magic. One of my main characters is a divinely blessed judge. When in his judgment trance, he can sense truth and lies. So he serves as judge and jury in one. Another key element to my story is a combination drug and spell called ‘hextasy’. When you take it, the sex is ramped up to amazing levels but you can only be satisfied by the one you most desire. Anyone else doesn’t qualify. It can kill you. Thus, one of the bases of my story.

It’s fun (thank god!) but it’s probably going to be long. I’m at 20K now and I might be a third of the way through it. I’m not sure. The story and the characters keep on changing on me. Not drastically–well, mostly–but enough to keep altering things. I got a whole new character in the mix who wasn’t supposed to be have but a bit part but… well… he reminds me of Luc from Heaven Sent. He all of a sudden presented himself and said “hey, didn’t you know that I…” <<sigh>> add to it that the cps have fallen for him and there you go.

So anyway, the new story is currently called Judgment but that’ll likely change pretty soon.  The cps pointed out that it was very reminiscent of a Heaven Sent title so it might get confusing. I might end up calling it “Sursein Judgment” or just “Sursein” after the god that blessed the judge character mentioned above. We’ll see.