The Revolution Diaries part 40

This week started off with an attack on my confidence. About a week ago I was pleased to find that my sixth novel, Scorched Earth: Arrival, had been rated five stars on Amazon, but then fast forward to the beginning of this week and I was shocked to see that the reader had seemed to

The Revolution Diaries part 39

This week started slowly. After I’d completed chapter twenty-two of the final book of the Scorched Earth trilogy, I wanted to move on to chapter twenty-three, but I wasn’t sure how to proceed with this particular sub-plot. Fortunately, after a couple of brainstorming sessions, I managed to get past the writer’s block and was on

The Revolution Diaries part 38

Shortly after I’d finished writing last week’s post, I completed chapter forty-one of the last book of the Scorched Earth trilogy. With that done, it was time to begin working on the final eight chapters of the first half of the book. I wrote chapter twenty-one, then briefly jumped over to chapter twenty to write

The Revolution Diaries part 37

This week began with me finishing chapter thirty-two of the final book of the Scorched Earth trilogy, Scorched Earth: Revolution, before eagerly going over to chapter forty-one, where all the main characters eventually meet up. However, the interference of constant rolling power outages this week meant I failed to make much progress until Thursday when

The Revolution Diaries part 36

With the sad passing of my dad this week, my writing was somewhat curtailed. Still, I completed chapter sixteen of the final book of the Scorched Earth trilogy, Scorched Earth Revolution, and moved on to work on chapter thirty-two. This brings me to having just a chapter and a half left before all the characters

The Revolution Diaries part 35

Last week I mentioned that I’d realized I might have to add a few extra chapters to the last book of the Scorched Earth trilogy. I did end up doing so, although not in the way I’d initially expected. When looking over what I’d written so far, I thought I could avoid adding a couple

The Revolution Diaries part 34

I spent this week focusing on neatening up the third book of the Scorched Earth trilogy, Scorched Earth: Revolution. I rearranged a few chapters and added or deleted various lines from previously completed chapters, before finishing off chapter thirty-one. Then I began working on chapters thirty-two and thirty-three while adding random lines to random chapters

The Revolution Diaries part 32

This week I finally managed to get through to the head office of the second bookstore I’d approached. However, they said they could only take my books via a distributor. They were kind enough to provide me the contact info of a few, so guess that’s my next step. As I mentioned last week, I

The Revolution Diaries part 31

This week began with some frustrating and disappointing news. As I mentioned before, I had asked the cover designer of my last three books, Marcus Meyer, if he’d be up for doing the cover of my current book, the final part of my Scorched Earth trilogy. I’d put my request in early, while I’m still

The Revolution Diaries part 30

This week I continued working on chapter twenty-four of the final book of the Scorched Earth trilogy, skipping slightly ahead to write the end of the chapter. All that’s left to do now is to bridge the gap between where I left off and the ending, and that’ll be another chapter done. After that, I