Happy Fourth of July Book Updates!

With Trickster Trysting, Bane War Vol. II in beta reading stage, I wanted to share updates.

First, Fury Feeding got great feedback from a Netgalley promotion I did a few months ago. Readers liked the book overall, but shared two common concerns:

• Pacing, too slow in parts with too much dialog.
• Confusing. What’s the plot? What is Saffa thinking, what is her goal? Get inside her head, please, please, please!

I did a poor job getting the reader inside Saffa’s head, so I’m doing a second edition pass on this book, adding a few scenes I had wanted in the original edition but didn’t have the time/stamina to add. Soren also needs an upgrade–he can still be a shy nerd but also change to his sinister persona, hot as Hells and dark. It will take several months, but I want to get the story right. Once this edition is done, I’ll have Allison, my editor, comb through the book and then get it republished hopefully by end of year.

When I need a break from this, I’ll be working on the third book, Mercy Maiming, starring Zelene. If you haven’t noticed, the background of the website shows Zelene and a potential love interest … who could it be? She’ll be fighting in two wars and playing in a mixed-gender brutal basketball league with no foul calls. Imagine putting the NBA, WNBA, Slamball, and Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball into a blender. What do you get? The CBL, or Combat Basketball League, where losing has more implications than just heartbreak.

And don’t worry. The B plot of Mercy Maiming will continue from the first book as Ishethra leads Nightwind against Bratgon and its horrifying technological evolution, orchestrated by our friend Josnel Soneph. What happens when you combine magic and airplanes? Guess you’ll have to wait and find out. Saffa might become a fighter pilot in this book, but you didn’t hear that from me.

Future looking, book four, Freedom Flaying, stars Demvora and Ishethra. This book will be my first full-on attempt at a proper dark fantasy horror novel as we follow these two mavki as they hunt tyrants mercilessly.

Thanks for visiting and I’d love to hear your comments, like if you’ve read the first book, what you think of it and this series, or anything else random you want to share. Click on the post title and scroll down to get to the comments.