Chapter 2 Starts Now

Hello, my lovely blog. Have you missed me?

First, I must apologize for neglecting you. Shortly after Dawn's End I drifted from the blogosphere towards MySpace and Facebook as my primary guerrilla marketing outlets. MySpace was quickly abandoned since it was taken over by the inmates of Arkham and 12-year-olds, but Facebook proved to be a fun and fertile place to keep everyone informed about the book.

Recently, though, I've decided to blog again as the primary method to share my thoughts on both my writing and the craft in general.

Dawn's End was a wonderful experience that taught me a great deal. I learned how to be patient with the process of writing, which is both rewarding and torturous. I learned how to let something take on a life of its own, even if it wasn't the direction I originally intended. It also taught me humility as I suffered through rejection letters galore from so many agents. (You guys missed out!) The publishing world is a hard and cutthroat place and I wouldn't say I'm a successful fiction writer yet, not by any stretch, but damned if I don't have an entertaining book out there with my name on it available for anyone to buy. That's a joyous feeling that never gets old. I even get the occasional royalty check.

But now is the time to officially put Dawn's End in the past and get going on Chapter 2. I've started writing the second book and while it's daunting to start this whole process over again, I feel I'm much wiser and really know what I'm doing this time. Finding time to write with a full time job and two little kids won't be easy, but what in life that's truly worthwhile is easy?

I'll share more as I get further along (only three chapters so far), but for now I'll just put the title out there.

The Echo Spiral.

Mmm. Goosebumps.