Month: August 2022

Having subjected A Sea Sought in Song to one last editorial pass, and having submitted it to five indie publishers, I’m now churning through Book Two—Wrath and Crimson Rime—to give it a once-over as well. I really do think this will be the final edit on my part. The sequel was always in relatively better shape, since I already had 116K words’ worth of voice-development under my belt before I started it. So by the end of the weekend, I’ll have two full novels fit and trim and ready to face the world. Again. Theoretically.

In the meantime, I thought I’d re-up my heretofore greatest claim to fame: the chapter from Book Two which won an Honorable Mention at the prestigious Writers of the Future contest in the 1st quarter of 2019. As a flashback to Hugh Conrad’s past, it’s a rip-roarin’ noir adventure set in 1947 Iceland. It’s fun, exciting, tragic, and intriguing. It’s worth a read. After all, just look how it begins:

Anyway, if you want to give it a gander just click here.

[Language and violence advisory notice: these are adult novels I’m writing, after all.]

In the interest of self-promotion (which I’m bad at), or of screaming into the void (which I’m all-too-good at), I’d like to take this opportunity to display part of one of the more flattering full-manuscript rejections I’ve yet received from a publisher (a major one, whose name you’d know).

And for the record, I’d like to state that ALL the songs in A Sea Sought in Song (which def lives up to its name) are both pertinent (tho not necessarily “penitent”) and relevant.