Never Was

Quite…too quite

2 comments April 21st, 2009

Yes, I know I have been absent for some time, but be assured that I have not forgotten about the site or podcast.  I have part of a story recorded and I am still moving forward with part three of Shadow Hunter, sitll waiting on a couple of readers.

Over the past couple of months we have spend a lot of time getting our house ready for sale, which we sold recently.  Then I go sick and I haven’t felt upto recording.  Add in how easy it is for me to get distracted and then spell bad news for the site.

I will however podcast Shadow Hunter and part two of Buried in the Sand that I have written.  I am also planning on doing a third part to BITS but it’s not written yet and I’m working on anohter project, I’m hope that what I have record is enough to hold me over for a while.

Where We are Now?

Add comment February 15th, 2008

Over the past little while I have been making slow progress on retyping Chasing Shadows. I believe that ultimately the story will be better than it was the first time but it’s still hard to have lost it. I am however battling on. The problem I’m struggling with right now is that I’m really looking forward to my next project. I haven’t decided exactly what it will be but my mind is moving away from the Shadow Hunter series. What is curious, however, is that yesterday while reading an interview with a Writing Agent I got the urge to do a rewrite on Shadow of a Hero.

Shadow of a Hero the first novel that I ever completed. It is currently sitting around 70,000 words so it is still a little short and needs a lot of work. Shadow of a Hero as the title might imply takes place in the same world as Shadow Hunter but involves a different set of main characters, although some familiar characters are in this book. One of the thoughts I had when I first started Podcasting Shadow Hunter was as a build up for hopefully getting Shadow of a Hero published. It made sense that those who had follow Shadow Hunter might be interested in seeing what came next.

The fact is that currently Shadow of a Hero is far from ready. In writing Shadow Hunter I filled in a lot of back ground story and actually changes a few things, some major things. I do believe that Shadow of a Hero will benefit from not only the new back story but the experiences I have gain over the past several years and books.

The reason I like the idea of editing Shadow of a Hero rather than starting my new novel is that the new novel is a Sci-fi and not a Fantasy. The new novel will stand out as my only Sci-fi and I although I still believe in the story might not be the best choice for my first published book.

As for Never Was, I have realized that I have a short story that is completed, written and edited, that I have not read for you. My plan is to record that story and post it, hopefully within the week.

Thanks for holding on while I struggle to get Chasing Shadows completed.

Bad News for Chasing Shadows

Add comment January 18th, 2008

After finishing my NaNo Novel I’ve been working on completing Chasing Shadows, the second part of Shadow Hunter. The goal was to get enough written that I would be able to start sending it out to readers by the end of January. Things were going well, I had written far enough into Chasing Shadows that the remainder of it was in Shalli’s POV. Since I will be reading for Shalli this meant the I could start editing the other POV characters and sending files out to readers. I had two readers confirmed and was looking for one, two or three more depending on how I did things. I was planing a podcast by the end of this week calling for readers.

That is when I decided to reorganize my writing files and back them up. I have done this in the past and have back up files from that last reorganization. To be honest my files had got quite disorganized with duplicates. I finished my reorganization and copied my writing files off to a USB key.

Yesterday I plugged the key into my computer and went looking for my work in progress, Chasing Shadows. To my shock the file was not there. I check around the key and still could not find the file. At home I searched through the files I had organized and still could not find the file. I did some searches and found some delete file restore programs. After some some work I was able to “recover” the file. I clicked on the file and watched in horror as the file opened but did not display the text of novel, instead it displayed a mass of unreadable characters.

I am currently looking at ways of fixing my file, but at this point I’m not hopeful. The only saving grace is that when I started writing this story I was writing it by hand. That means that I have only lost my work since the beginning of the year, about 1/4 of what I had. So I will continue to try and recover the file but in the mean time it looks like I’ll be typing out the story again, and re-editing the novel.

Because of this, obviously, Chasing Shadows will not be out as soon as I hoped. I do not have another novel to podcast at this point; my only two finished novels are Shadows Falls and Shadow of a Hero. Shadows Falls is part 3 of Shadow Hunter and Shadow of a Hero is book one of the series that follows Shadow Hunter. I will however look at what I do have and what I might be able to give you for content until Chasing Shadows is ready.

I will keep you updated.

You’re going to get Buried

Add comment July 5th, 2007

It has been a while since my last podcast so I just wanted to just you an update on what I’ve been doing. Over the past couple of weeks I have edited and prepared the novel “Buried in the Sand” for podcast. I have been working with a couple of other podcasters to help out with podcasting this novel.

I hope to be announcing a release date for “Buried in the Sand” within the next week, once I hear back from the other podcasters.

Once I start “Buried in the Sand” I will focus my effort onto “Chasing Shadows” in hopes that it will be ready to podcast when “Buried in the Sand” finishes. In my current plan “Buries in the Sand” should run 13 episodes.

The Status of Never Was

1 comment June 13th, 2007

For the last week and a half I was on vacation. I had hoped to be able to get a significant amount of writing done while I was away. Unfortunately I was not able to get nearly as much done as I had hope to; my plan was to give a release date for “Chasing Shadows” the second part of “Shadow Hunter” when I returned. With my slow progress on “Chasing Shadows” I am not able to yet give a firm date on when it will start but it is currently looking like it will not be ready until late summer (August/September) time frame.

Normally I would post a poll in the forum but, I wanted to ensure I got as much feed back as possible and make it as easy as possible. So I have posted the poll below. Please select the option or options (you can vote for more than one) that you would prefer.