7 Years In The Making

It was about seven and a half years ago that I started to re-work two of my short stories into a novel. Back then it was a simple stand alone story, but it didn’t take long for one story to turn into a trilogy and then into a pentalogy. It pulled in an old screenplay I wrote back in the early 1990s and a character languishing without a story at all, expanding the world into something that has become so much more than I could ever have envisioned at the start.

Juggling writing and work proved a challenge, taking three years just to finish the first draft, but after eleven drafts, feedback, revisions, rejections and challenges, Dream Weaver is finally released into the wild.

Cover of Dream Weaver Book. Young Girl with magical power holds a light in her hands

An explosion rips the heart out of Little Rock, leaving the city in ruins.

In the aftermath appear the Dream Weavers Vermilion and Argentis, magical creatures who have come to offer comfort amid the chaos. They soon discover the cause of the devastation—Starla, a young girl who has done the impossible and harnessed the power of magic.

Vermilion and Argentis must guide Starla to master the magic before she re-shapes reality and destroys more than just a city, or before darker, malevolent forces claim her power for themselves.

DREAM WEAVER is a dark urban fantasy that will take you on a thrilling journey through the world of magic. With vivid settings and intriguing characters, this first instalment in the Samsara Tula series introduces a world where magic and reality collide.

Paperback and eBook versions are available on Amazon.

Writing is Writing After All

My first day back after a couple of weeks off and a day of writing a spec for a job I need to do at the end of the week. Since there are changes afoot and people are wanting to know what other people do, rather than just write the spec, I’m writing the manual to the job at the same time.
I don’t mind writing technical manuals, and when I write them, I tend to write them in a training manual style, since the people who are likely to need them won’t be as familiar with the work as I am. Besides, they are better to write like that.
My first passion, when it comes to writing, is science fiction and fantasy, but with 4 kids, it’s nigh impossible to find the time to write. So I take what I can get, and at the moment, that is a technical manual and this blog.

Writing is writing after all.