Haldred Chronicles: Anna is out. 2 years of work and book 4 has at last been
released. I am happy with the result and
it seems so are my readers! So, after more
than a month of resting, what now?
I’ve already completed one big task, and that was to submit
a short story to sci-fi and fantasy publishers Black Library as part of their
call for submissions. With the able help
of my wife Deborah, who proofread the
submission, I sent off the 500-word
extract and summary a couple of days ago.
The second big task now sitting on my to-do list is, of course, book 5. I have taken some time to look through my
various story ideas and have decided to go with ‘Haldred Chronicles:
Twig’. This story will concentrate on
the Courier-fey, message passing creatures that have been a staple of Haldred
Chronicles since the first book. Now,
with book 5, readers will learn a little more about these creatures.
I have a few other plans as well that I’ll work on when I
have time.
I hope to go over my
first 3 books and reformat the look of them.
Each of them featured slightly different font and paragraph design so I
now want to re-edit them so that they are all the same. In addition, I hope to use the re-formatted work
to create better-printed copies of the
books via Kindle Direct Publishing.
I’ve also been working on a synopsis of book 3,
‘Shade’. Together with a recently
completed introduction letter and the first 3 chapters, I hope to use this
package as my way to advertise the series to potential publishers and agents.
There is plenty planned for the next few months. I feel like the Easter holidays have allowed
me to get back into writing and make my plans for the future of the series.
Till next time.
