Another Friday, Another Chapter

Chapter 3 of Hired Gun has officially gone live.  So far, I've been getting a really strong positive response.  This book is really blowing up.  Tons of new views on the new blog, which is cool.

I feel like Chapter 3 is where the story really starts to develop.  You get to see Jason as a troubled hero with a difficult line of work, and he struggles with feeling that his efforts have little impact.  Something I always tried to come back to while writing this book was that Jason Ingram is a man.  Nothing more.  Not Superman.  Not Batman.  Just a regular dude who does some really interesting stuff.

Urban fantasy seems to be a genre plagued with wizards, summoners, half-demons, half-fairies, gargoyles (as heroes!), vampires--you freaking name it, and some UF hero is one.  That was tempting for me to fall into at first.  I'd been planning to make Jason a faith-based hero, like a paladin or a cleric.  But the more I wrote from his voice, the more I discovered that his plainness is what makes him special.  The fact that every job is a life-or-death struggle made me really care about him.  Anyway, I hope you like it.  Happy reading.  The new link is below.

http://hiredgunnovel.blogspot.com/2016/04/chapter-3.html

Friday Christmas

Chapter 2 of Hired Gun is officially live.  Cruise on over to the link in the last post if you'd like to read it.

I feel like Chapter 2 is stronger than the first one.  It introduces some of the book's main villains and really sets the stage for the finale.  Overall, I'm very happy with this chapter.  Wish they could all be Chapter 2.

I've been very careful about copy editing this story before I post it, but sometimes I goof up.  Eventually, when the story is finished, I will sweep over it one more time or hire someone else to do it.  Copy editing is a bit like putting up wallpaper.  Just as soon as you get it all nice and smooth in one spot, you notice another that that's falling apart.  Happy reading.

Hired Gun Is Now Live...Sort Of

I'm still working deep rewrites and revisions on my first Urban Fantasy novel Hired Gun.  It still has a ways to go before I start submitting it around to agents or putting it on Amazon, or whatever.  But I feel confident that the new stuff tells the story nicely.  So, having decided that this project needed to somehow get off the ground, I've created a new blog for it.

Hired Gun: A Free, Action-Packed Urban Fantasy Novel

http://hiredgunnovel.blogspot.com/

Tune in every Friday for a new chapter.

You can follow the above link to read the first chapter, or you could always wait a few weeks for the chapters to build up.  My target will be Fridays, but I'll also post here when I make a new chapter live.  Some people have asked me about adding a Donate button to the new blog, but I'm not exactly sure about that just yet.  I feel like this book is for fun and there shouldn't be any tip jar leering at you while you enjoy it.

It's not really publication, it's more like blogulation.  It's like publication but there's no money in it.  Wait--it's exactly like publication.

The plan is to finish revising this story and posting the new work this way until it's done.  Then, most likely, the blog will be taken down when I finally sell the story.  Of course, actually selling the story could take years so don't hold your breath.