THE NEW BREED CHRONICLES - THE COMPLETE FIRST NOVEL

So, it's done.  It took way, way, way too long.  THE NEW BREED CHRONICLES - THE COMPLETE FIRST NOVEL is finally finished.  As promised, I've been working hard on it.

Time has gotten much better for me and should continue to be that way.  We've finished (well, mostly) with building our house and moving into it.  With that monster task behind me, I can now dedicate more time to my other monster tasks - har, har!

Seriously, I know the series has taken a long time to reach this point.  I'd like to thank all of the readers that have patiently stuck with this mess as episodes leaked out every few months.  I am already working on the second installment of THE NEW BREED CHRONICLES.  I won't be releasing this in episodes.  I'm hoping that it should see the light of day in a short few months.

Editing Software

Readers have, very helpfully, let me know that the editing of my books could be a lot better.  This information has come, almost exclusively, in the form of reviews.
The reason my editing may be poor is probably because of two things:

    1) I can't afford professional editing.  If you guys, the faithful readers, keep on reading, and rating, and telling other people about my books, then maybe I will be able to pay a pro to sort out my mess someday soon.
    2) I 100% suck at editing.  I can read a disastrous error in my own work ten times and still miss it.  A teacher of mine explained this once.  He said mistakes you make when blasting out words are natural to your mind.  This means, that when reading over those errors, they make sense to your brain and you fail to be able to detect them.  Maybe it's just a nice excuse!

Regardless, I've been working as hard as I can at trying to fix those messes.  I've gone over BREED, DEEP, and all of THE NEW BREED CHRONICLES with my eyes (as in, reading them), and using several pieces of proof-reading and editing software.  I know the result is probably still not perfect, but I definitely hope the result is a better experience for readers.

New Breed Chronicles and Coming Months

I've probably said it before but the New Breed Chronicles experiment has been a failure.

I started writing the Chronicles in an episodic format because I thought it might be an interesting way to produce a new story and I felt that with the new rules of digital media, it might be a way to increase my shelf-space on  Amazon, while maybe drawing new readers in.

It has, to be fair, not been an utter failure.  There have been new readers and there have been sales.  The failure has been mine.  The episodes were supposed to be monthly releases.  I think, if I went to the bother of adding it all up, that they have barely been six-monthly.  No reader is going to hang around to pick up ten thousand odd words twice a year.

So, I am not giving up on the Chronicles.  I actually really enjoy writing them.  But the episodic nature is more or less dead.  The idea that I can juggle an episode each month while also giving attention to longer works is, as of now, done away with.  I am pausing my other projects to focus entirely on the Chronicles and intend to stick with them until what I'm defining in my head as the first "novel" is finished.  Then I will take a break and work on one of the other two projects, to the completion of that as well.

The good news is that a lot of the turbulence that has caused my output to be so low is largely at an end.  Things in my personal life are far more settled at the moment and the result, I hope, will be a lot more words written and a lot more works published.  Even as I write this, the next episode of Chronicles is, in fact, finished.  I see no reason not to put the episodes up as they complete, but I hope that they will come out very rapidly over the next weeks/months until the completion of the novel.

I am also re-editing everything I have on Amazon.  I suck really bad at that, and some of the stuff I have up there is so riddled with issues that it amazes me that readers have managed to say all the nice things they have said.

Call this post a little update, there will be more to come, more regularly than in quite a while...  I hope.