5/22/14 - It's been close to a year since I've posted anything, whihc is crazy becuause the chapters I've been posting have been done for almost that entire time. I have to say that Chapters 39 and 40 are two that were pretty much written, in my head anyway, from the start. Edward does a fair bit of monologuing in 40, but I think I'll leave it. I've read it out loud, and I'm totally hooked on the whole deal. I love how it sounds - even given that's it's all a bit insane. More to come tomorrow, and I've got a few more to post. This is fun. I'd forgotten how much I had enjoyed this project. Maybe I'll get back to doign some actualy WRITING and keepign up with it as well. I'd certainly LIKE that. We'll see how it goes. (And, BTW - you know who you are - thanks again for the fan letter! Crazy what a little positive feedback can do!)
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1/6/13 - OK, so... Change of plans.
If you've been checking in over the past few months, you've probably notice that NOTHING has been happening. At least on this blog. In truth, I've continued writing, and I've continued working with my j.riddle to try and get this banged into shape for publishing. As I mentioned previously, I wanted to put out a series of roughly five-chapter volumes, about every month or so. Unfortunately, my editors been having a lot of computer issues lately, and the process has pretty much halted. And in the meantime, I've written up through Chapter THIRTY-NINE! (In a decent first-draft form, in any case.) And I hate having that much work sitting around and not being able to share it. So my NEW plan is to past a new chapter here every week. It will probably update every Saturday or Sunday for the next few months. (Starting today, with Chap. 26.) And by the time I've posted everything I written just so far, I hope to be fairly close to actually FINISHING the entire story. At which point, I'll see about publishing it as one complete work. (AND, at which point this blog will be coming down permanently.) (Don't worry - I'll give a few warnings before that happens.) In the meantime, Chapters one through four now exist in what I consider their finished form, and I hope that j.riddle and I can get back to updating the rest of them. While that is happening, the rest of the story is still in what I consider it's 'first draft,' so I'm very interested in getting feedback, questions, comments... Anything. Let me know what you think, let me know if something doesn't make sense or is unclear. Whatever you like. Tell me "I suck." I dont' mind! LOL. (Alhough I would like to know WHY I suck!)
But if you've read it in the past, and got frustrated with the lack of regular updates, there will ABSOLUTELY be weekly updates from now on, for at least the next 4-5 months or so. And POSSIBLY until it's completion, but we'll how it goes. I appreciate your support, and your having spent time here over the past year and a half, and hope that I haven't lost TOO many of you. In any case, hopefully, WELCOME BACK, and I look forward to making this a regularly updated blog again!
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10/9/12 - A LOOOONG overdue Update!
I've now written through Chapter 29 (that's 4 beyond what was previously posted.) Of course... if you're checking in, having read through Chapter 25, you're probably wondering what's up, why there haven't been any updates, and why it's all been taken down. The reason is that I'm in the process of moving the entire project over the the Kindle Store, for commercial sale.
I realize that those (few) of you who have been loyal readers of the story so far, might be put off by this, and in the time it's going to take to get everything up there for sale, I will probably lose your attention and/or interest. And I DO regret that. But I feel it's necessary, as I cannot expect to sell something if I continue to give it away for free. (And if I sell just three copies of what's been posted so far, I'll make as much money as I've managed to in eighteen months of having this blog up.)
So I am sorry if you're bummed out by this news. If you're REALLY bummed out, you can be like Rush Limbaugh and root for my failure - because if I can't sell ANYTHING over there, I might as well come back and post it here! I'm going to WRITE the story regardless.
In any case Volume One, which will include chapters one through five, should be available soon. (I'll include a link, once it's official.) And as new Volumes come out, I will include a teaser paragraph, as I've done with chapters one through three, along with a link to where it can be bought. (I'll mention it on IMHO as well.) Prices will change according to what the market tells me, but I'd like to shoot for around the $1.49 range, per Volume. (Each Volume will average around fifty pages.)
EVENTUALLY, when it's finished, (I figure it's about halfway done, as of Chapter 29,) the entire work will be available in print form, but that's getting well ahead of ourselves. So until then? I appreciate your support up until this point, and hope that you will continue to follow the story. If not? Believe me, I'll understand. But life is short, and you have to take advantage of any opportunities that you can.
Thanks,
Niceguy Eddie
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8/27/12 - I just re-posted Chapter 3 as edited by j.riddle. His best work yet. I hope to complete Chap 26 over the weekend. It' turning out MUCH longer than I'd first planned, but I really don't want to break it up. We'll see.
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8/11/12 - Chapter 25 is pasted and 26 is about half way done, as the Great Editing Project continues. Chapter 2 re-posted the other night, after some considerable clean-up by j.riddle. I truly hope this this exchange of ours continues. In addition to making my work better, and sending me some incredibly interesting and entertaining work of his own, working with him has rekindled my motivation to tell the story and get this damn thing written! I hope to post Chapter. 26 later this week.
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8/7/12 - Chapter 25 is still in the works, but I want to thank j.riddle for helping me out a bit with some editing work. Chapter 1 has been re-done and re-posted and I think you'll find that it reads a lot better now. I'm hopeful that he'll stay on a bit, because I think this project would benefit greatly from his input.
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6/25/12 - Chapter 23 is posted, and 24 is ALREADY WRITTEN! Woo-hoo. I'll probably post it at the end of the week.
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2/24/12 - Chapter 21 posted, with a little shout-out to The American President and The Contender. Gary Oldman is the shit.
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1/30/12 - I can't believe it was so long between chapters 19 and 20! And the worst part is that I had Chapter 20 99% completed back in mid November! Anyway, I hope to maintain a more consistent, roughly weekly update schedule from this point forward. Also - Some character profiles added and updated.
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9/25/11 - Chapter Sixteen took a lot longer than I expected for a couple of reasons. First of all, it was getting a lot longer than I'd originally envisioned. But I was having fun with Edward and Agent Jones, so I figured I'd leave it all in. In any case, what is now going to be Chapter Seventeen was originally supposed to be the end of THIS chapter. So... yeah, at some point you just have to quit while you're ahead. LOL. Also, we had some pretty serious family-related issues involving a scare with my mother but everything's OK right now. She's home now, and it's all good.
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9/6/11 - Posted Chapter Fifteen, and updated the poll. Fifteen was fun, but a bit of a challenge to write , with several different things taking place all at the same time. Also... If you're wondering (but too lazy to look it up) Howard Cobel IS a real person. And I used him (and NAMED him) specifically in this instance for no other reason than needing at least one Government person that wouldn't have been found within the first twenty-four hours or so. And considering that it was New Year's Day, in addition to merely being someone that Edward would have put on the hit-list, it would also have to be someone who was SINGLE. That would be the biggest (and easiest) road-block to their discovery. (And thus requiring no convoluted set circumstances in the plot to explain it!) And, believe it or not, Coble (R-NC) is like the ONLY unmarried member of the Republican Party in all of Congress! Seriously!
I will say this... And I'll have to repeat that Edward's judgement is not teh same thing as MINE (this is just a story, after all...) I did feel more than a little bit creeped out going through the Wikipedia pages of (for example) the Tea Party Caucus members and, looking at their pictures, thought, 'This person is dead now.' Yeah. That definitely creeped me out a bit there. I can see why most writers don't use real people for their murder victims. BUT... that's also why I put up the poll. And I'll see from your responses if I'm doing my job well with this. (Or I'll just see how partisan my readers are! We'll see how it goes! LOL)
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8/30/11 - I finally got Chapter 14 finished and posted. It was actually going to end up about twice as long, so I'm breaking it up into two chapters instead. I'm glad I finally got around to introducing the character of Gretchen (and adding a brief character profile for her as well.) She's actually my favorite character, and she's going to be a really important part of the story moving forward. BTW... In her character profile, I mentioned that her first appearance actually happened a while ago, although she wasn't identified at the time. Does anyone have a guess as to when that was? ;) (It's kind of important. LOL)
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8/13/11 - I was going to hold off posting Chapter 11 for a couple more days, but MMFA compiled a list of Limbaugh's lies for the week, and it was just too perfect a chance to pass up to post a link to the Chapter in which the only character to appear was the great gastropod himself. LOL. Things will get pretty interesting from this point on. Chapter 12 should post later this week.
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8/6/2011 - I finally posted Chapter Nine, almost a month after Chapter 8 posted. It was tough to write, because it goes though several different scenes and locations and tries to show how Edward's resistance to his anger is ebbing away. Also, as it was written over several weeks in fits and spurts it became a bit disjointed. Hopefully I managed to smooth it out a bit.
In other news, I updated the character pages for both Luci and Epiphany, including a picture of Luci from what was going to be 'page one' when this was still a graphic novel, and an early pencil-sketch that I had done of Epiphany in the margins of my notepad while sitting in a meeting at work. (LOL)
Hopefully Ten will come out fairly quickly, at least compared to Nine, because the material it's covering will be a lot more fun, more indulgent, for me to write. (It's when the shit finally starts to get REAL.)
