Add http://bit.ly/MMM-Goodreads to your Wants to Read shelf; I just typed THE END so it's really happening! #SciFi #novel

OMG! Was #amediting MAN MADE MAN but moments ago I typed the words THE END :) Now I'm off to write the backmatter content and reformat for Kindle as I do my final, cover-to-cover proofread-through. So close!!

*woohoo!!*

The book's not out TODAY (Labor Day, as scheduled) but it's going to be very close! So excited!!

Please add it to your Goodreads shelf today and look for it exclusively on Kindle for the first 90 days, pre-orders to start everywhere else for a December delivery! Yay!!!


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Raif Story #SciFi #novel update: Spoilers Ahead! http://bit.ly/MMM-Goodreads Add it to ur #Goodreads Shelf today

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to post a little update as we close in on the date when I might fall silent for while again. I've been working like mad on the opener of the book, the part I didn't have written at all, and it's blossomed into the whole first third of the story. It's flowing incredibly well and I really wish I didn't have to go work a day job or find a new place to live or do any of that "life" stuff that is going to make me have to STOP WRITING. It hurts my heart to stop writing.

I've updated the Goodreads Page for Raif's Story with a few spoilers and teasers to let you know what's in the first third of the book. If I can find a new job and a new place to live all in the next 2-3 weeks, I could feasibly get this book done and out the door by September....but these days, that kind of speed on job hunts is rare if not impossible. Companies just don't move quickly anymore, not sure why.

I'll keep at it and once I'm in a nice and easy (not quite but close to "braindead" for me) desk job, I can crank out the rest of this book super fast! The content editing is the biggest time-sink and that's the part that's going so quickly. Having an outline seems to have worked out well for me. I might have to try this again! Who knew? (haha)

-Friday
@phoenicianbooks

Meet CADMUS, The Elder...but how old is he?? #PhoenicianSeries #Raif

So I've been writing again, just a little and in both Book 1 and Book 3. It's been hard to choose! I wish I could just write both of them all at once and not have to deal with real life at all until they're done. Alas, real life doesn't really work that way.

What I have done is come up with a scene in Book 1 where Raif has just brought Shayla back from the World Council to Phoenician land.  A lot of people died to get her out of there and back "where she belongs" so Raif is definitely not inclined to just turn around and bring her home with him again. He planned on dropping her off and having her people be glad to get her back among them...but Cadmus has other plans. Cadmus has The Plan. It is his plan given as he is the Elder and makes The Plan(s).

So just who is this Cadmus-the-Elder guy? Well, funny thing is he might be older than "Elder" suggests! Check out some of these references--and remember, in my far-future books in The Phoenician Series, the Phoenicians are not necessarily from Earth but "obviously" share some DNA with humans...they practically *are* human....aren't they? heh heh heh :)

Cadmus - the original Greek Myth

Cadmus - alternate backstory from WikiPedia