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I write and live with my beautiful wife, Sandra, and sons (Solstice, Finnegan and Brahms) in a little-big house on a dirt road in a valley in the hills. My secret identity struggles through the grind of teaching high school English to the denizens of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.

Friday, February 24, 2012

Work progresses...

My car broke down yesterday. I enjoyed the day quite thoroughly. That's how weird I am. The house was silent and still, I couldn't get to work so I wrote my heart out. Wrote more than 8k words and Wardmaster reached 83k. I am really looking forward to writing during vacation next week. I hope to have the novel finished by the end. Honestly, what I am looking forward to the most is seeing how it will all (or not) work out for my beset heroes. This one has everything, and I believe people are going to love it. My biggest issue right now is paying for editing and a cover.

Monday, February 13, 2012

Update

Hi, everyone. If you haven't checked out my new novel, Test of a Prince, please head on over to Amazon.com (link to the right) and read a few chapters. I guarantee you'll be hooked.

I have been working on a new dark fantasy epic, The Wardmaster. This is approaching 80K, and I should have the book done by the end of the month. This one has psychic knights, zombies, ghouls, vampires, mutants, evil carnival freaks, werewolves, and more. I haven't quite figured out how I'm going to publish this monstrous adventure, but I'm leaning toward self-publication, which means it will be available soon (by June, if all works out).

I have been collecting my short published (and some unpublished) dark fiction for a killer anthology which will definitely be available for the kindle by April or May. I already have a cover. My very talented artist friend, Curtis Hale, has given me permission to use one of his paintings for it. I am very excited to have people read these twisted stories that saw print in some very obscure but wonderful publications.

I'm still waiting to hear about the progress in editing with my sequel to Test of a Prince, The Vale of Shade. I'm also biting my nails to the quick (actually I have never bit my nails) waiting to hear when Hairy Bromance, a horror-comedy road trip odyssey. When I know more, you'll know more.

After these projects, what, you may ask, will I turn my imagination toward?

Well, I have always loved superheroes, and find that as I'd like to read good superhero fiction (it's pretty rare) then I think I'd love to write it. I have a world I've been developing for a few years now. I believe this summer will be a good time to crank out a tale of heroes, villains and people in funny costumes. We'll see.

In any case, thanks for reading, and buy my book, read it, and write a review on Amazon. I will be most appreciative.

Take Care,
Trav