New Blog Interview: Inspiration from Frank Herbert

I have a new author interview over at the Kathleen Valentine's Parlez Moi Blog's Writer On Writer series! Check it out!

I write about one of my favorite authors and his book that helped inspire me - Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune!

Stitched Crosses Audio Drama

I'm thinking of writing a children's book of astronomy some time this summer. I have so many ideas it's crazy! It's also a lot of fun thinking about all of the things I want to do.

I've been listening and enjoying a new audio drama set in during the early crusade era. I suppose you could call it sort of like The Kingdom of Heaven (a film I loved) but from the point of view of the Christians. It's called Stitched Crosses. You can listen to each episode on middle earth network radio every Sunday, 10am and 9pm EST. Excellent story telling and production values. I recommend it.

If you would like to purchase the audio drama you can get it as an audio download at Audio.com or the beautiful three disc set at Amazon.com. I'm springing for the disc set - I love discs like some people love vinyl records -  and it is beautiful. Take a look at the set here.

This audio drama and other wonderful books and comics were created by the folks at Grail Quest Books, a site I'll be blogging about more in the future.

Future Projects

The Lady Moons is finally available for purchase on B&N. Seems they like to take their own sweet time, but anyway,

The Secret Doorway Tales series is going to be drawing to a close pretty soon. I have two more books to write. I'm thinking of a short story to add to the series but that will deal with a different character altogether, not the heroine Anne.

However, I'm gathering ideas and writing notes for the next trilogy of books I plan to write. In fact, I've written notes for these books years ago, actually while I was writing Night Terrors I was gathering notes for these stories. I still haven't come up with a title I like, yet. The working title is still Monolith. It will be adult science fantasy. it will be interesting looking through these old notes and adding them to the new ones.

I have many ideas for books I plan to write in the next three years. There's a series of books I plan to write after the Monolith trilogy, a steam-punk science fiction series that I'm excited about. Then there is the idea for a cat detective set in either the Medieval age or the Renaissance, but I haven't yet decided. Think Brother Cadfael, but a cat detective instead of a human. Then there's the prequel to the Monolith trilogy.

I may even revisit the Secret Doorway Tales series after that but as you can see it will be some years before I get around to it, if I've decided that I actually want to. See? This is the advantage to indie publishing. The only person allowed to make these decisions is me, the author. No one can tell me what to do. No one! Indie publishing - and by that I mean Self publishing - kicks butt!