I'll be honest, sometimes I feel I neglect this blog just because time is not my friend. Between school and work I haven't had a lot of time. However, a couple of good things have come from this.
My new job gives me some writing freedom when I don't have homework, and we aren't busy. It's been sporadic but helpful. I've gotten some more editing on The Dragon's Apprentice done, finished a short story ("A Fey Deal") and now I'm working on another book.
Grimmack is the story of a goblin illegally taught magic whose world gets upended. His master is accused of practicing black magic, and the fallout pulls him out of the safety of his studies into the big wide world of humans. You know, the big folk who somehow don't understand how the world is supposed to work.
I'm having fun with this one. It's a bit of adventure story versus thumbing my nose at a few fantasy tropes. It's not intended to be a long book, as I'm thinking of young junior high age children for my target demographic, but when I finish I plan on being a little over 50,000 words. I was originally planning on publishing this book through Amazon and going the self-published route, but I think before I do that I want to see if I can find an agent to try and go traditional.
I'm also hoping that doing a smaller project like this will help me get my editing brain to the point where I can finish "The dragon's apprentice." I want to do that trilogy as well, and might jump back and forth. Grimmak promises to be an open ended story, that I can keep going on as long as I find ideas and situations. However I feel it will have a more limited audience. I have an overall story arc for Grimmack in mind, but It will be a long time before he realized it.
Other than that, I'm progressing in school. I have my A+ certification and am diving straight into my Network+ certification. Then I have Security+, Administers, and Project+. Seems a long way to go.
Kids are great and out of school for summer. Keeping me busy of course.
That is pretty much what I have for now, other than buy my new short story, A Fey Deal on Amazon and Kindle if you would like to support me. I appreciate any reviews, good or bad, people drop on my work as well.
Thank you,
Ben
