Tuesday, June 15, 2010

My Little Projects: an update for some.

I have been trying to get a few little projects done. This is on top of family, work and my little World of Warcraft addiction. Honestly these have taken a back seat more than once and will quite a bit more in the future.

My Western novel, set in a fictional Texas Panhandle town of Restless in 1880-1881 and in the first person of Jamie Kittery* a sixteen year old son of a horse rancher as he finds his life flipped upside down by a stranger from his father's past. He has to find out who his father really was and his connection to the Confederacy before he and his father are killed by Confederate holdouts and former Union soldiers with a grudge against the Confederacy. (chapter one is getting fleshed out and I am missing some of the layout I need like character names and a key plot element),

A modern action/thriller series, a GWOT piece (just starting the some of the character development and plot line)

And a never ending fantasy piece for my wife and I and maybe anyone interested (this is going to take a while just to get multiple storylines down for major characters and redemption will be one of the themes), well maybe... I still have not decided to use elves, a small race (gnomes/hobbits) and dwarfs or something different. Also, the nightmarish army of evil monsters are being changed up (will not be orcs or trolls but will have undead and other evil creatures and yes WoW has tainted that.)

My printer is giving me issues and this is after spending money I did not really have to get a part and ink to get it up to send to the one I promised first dibs.

*Name will be changed as it is taken and copyrighted by Bantam Books.