We spent part of the weekend cleaning up and cleaning out the office, so I took the opportunity to do an inventory: 100 soft-cover and 24 BookStub (digital copies), and the hard-covers are gone. Well, there’s one, but it’s not in very good condition. So! Website is updated to reflect that. Soft-cover copies are still $16.99 and access to a digital copy is $5.00.
Meanwhile, I’m still going through a separate series of stories, loosely titled as a whole as “The Chronicles”. They’re unrelated to House of Torunthane, and I’m adding just to add something else to the website. With a new semester starting this week, I hope to finish one story. By that I mean, make sure there weren’t any overt errors or things that just absolutely don’t make any sense at all.. which I’m sure there will be even after going over them. In my mind, “The Chronicles” played out in segments, almost episodic, and I think they would have been much better served as a comic book. If I could draw, I would have definitely gone that route. Definite influences from Paradise Lost and “Dragonball Z”. Seriously, not joking. I’m sure someone else can come up with a lot of other comics/cartoons that have similar themes, but I’m just not “hip” anymore. Posting “The Chronicles” is catharsis. I’m airing out dusty tales of things that made sense 17 years ago of a simplified “they’re bad, we’re good” sort of world to provide that mental escape from the complexities of real life. Because the villains aren’t always clear in reality, but if they’re a demon that’s just out to eat people, there’s no question that sucker’s gotta go. Stay posted.
Oldy But Goldy
I’ve updated the “Older Stories” page to include a short I wrote back in the early ’00’s. The Torunthanes are gone, and Earth is revisited by the Jortasha, another dominant power in this particular area of the Milky Way. While the story has roots in texts-not-yet-written, I liked it because it barely touches on the main characters of The House of Torunthane but shows how the world that they were forced to leave behind has to carry on in the wake of the major events that brought the world into the interstellar fold. And it gets me away from Menver and Vedin who’ve been the main characters for years and years. Please take a read, I hope you enjoy it and get to learn a little more about the grand storyline that is The House of Torunthane.
New Energy-related post
Take a look at Energy, Environment, and the et cetera for a new post giving the short on the South Carolina V.C. Summer nuclear power plant debacle and my two cents on how that affects the industry.
Rough start
I’ve learned in the last week that I’m no WordPress master. I’ve been unable to log in to do any updating to this thing in the last few days, and that’s a fairly frustrating feeling. I still don’t understand why or how whenever I go to “customize”, it brings up a series of pages that have some of the same elements, but different pictures and lay-out. Still working through this. In any case, I’ve updated the price for the hard cover copy of my book to be more in line with what I think is reasonable than what Archway originally suggested. I hope to get a lot more done with the site through the weekend, around the normal stuff of finishing re-organizing the shed, the garage, doing the laundry, trying to work-out, studying, and maybe tackling some other side projects.
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