Insurgent Chapter 6.1
The razor didn’t precisely shake in Jim Turville’s hands as he carefully shaved in the small mess-kit mirror. Nonetheless, Turville paused, took a steadying breath, then quickly finished. He packed away his kit, placed a…
Month: March 2011
Shrinking word count!
I know a couple weeks ago I posted a note here that Insurgent was 60,000 words, which was a cool milestone… two thirds or so through the first draft. But then I deleted 5,000 words…
J.L. Bryan’s Dominion
About a year ago Amazon’s “people who also bought this book” recommended Dominion by J.L. Bryan to me as a book commonly bought by people who also bought Republic. I finally picked up the Kindle…
Insurgent Chapter 5.4
1998 Mandy Mays accepted her diploma from the Principal, and smiled so wide her cheeks hurt. Her eyes darted to the audience and met Joe’s eyes and felt a shiver of pleasure go down her…
Awesome new reviews
Just a note on some awesome new reviews of Republic: “I cared for a lot of the characters and none had a happy ending with so much death around them. the book was well written…
MobiPocket, Amazon, and Why I’m not Dooooomed!
So here’s what happened. Way back in January 2008, I hit a brainstorm. My thought at the time was: I’m a really obscure writer, with what I think is a great idea for a book. Can’t…
New Librarything Review of Republic
Just posting a quick update: new review of Republic up at LibraryThing
Republic Chapter One
Chapter One May 24 Kenny Murphy, Jr. waved goodbye and turned to go into the school building. The faint lines at the corners of Ken Murphy’s eyes crinkled just a little as he watched…
60,000 words….
Milestone of sorts. Insurgent is now 60,000 words. Long way to go still, but the bulk of the story is written. Definitely on track to finish before I die of old age.
Apple iBooks
Good news here, Republic is now available from the Apple iBookstore. Check it out here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/republic-a-novel-americas/id424103386?mt=11&ls=1