Goals for the future

I have been putting together many goals for the future. It has taken up a lot of time but i hope to accomplish each of these in my lifetime.

1) get a good group of affordable proofreaders. (many of my fans have offered this but i have been looking around for English grads locally to hire fulltime.)

2) Have a pen and paper game made (this is in the process and hopefully will be finished soon. it has taken a lot of work because i don't know much about them. My mother and father were in the mind that they were evil...I honestly had to hide fantasy books as a kid to read them...that might even be the reason i like to write because most the time i had to makeup my own since i couldn't buy them.)

3) Have a video game made after my books.

4) have a graphic novel or manga series after my books. (I cant draw and since most my resources are in the pen and paper game...editing, an illustrations, and getting the books translated into Spanish i cant afford to hire someone for this but someday....someday.)

5) get an anime...yes i am a full fledged nerd and i love anime.

i love writing and reading though the latter has taken a backseat as i don't like to read when im working because i fell it influences my personal writing style. Thanks to my fans i get to do what i love but it is a lot of work and i am trying to improve. my only other goals right now are to sell 100K books worldwide and to make it into the top 100 on amazons best seller list overall.

Silver Mage

a teaser is out for the next book Silver mage. I am working hard on it and i think that if many of you give it a chance you will love Bren just as much as Thad. Hope you enjoy but for now it is back to work for me.

The price of being a writer

When I sit down with a good book I might know the authors name and his other works but I ever gave much thought to what it took to get the book to my hands. If the book was good I was happy if the book was bad I would put it away angrily and pick up another book. Not once in those years did I stop to think how much work and time went into he sheets of paper that I held. Now that I do the same thing I have begun to appreciate books all the more, even the ones I didn't enjoy as much. there are so many elements that go into writing that most people never think about unless thy're missing. time frame, character development, the small pieces of the world the story is set in. I cant speak for every author but I spent countless hours working on those things, even a detail that seems unimportant might later be what everything hinges on. those small details mean I spent just as much time researching as I do writing. blacksmithing, economics, fighting styles, weapon types and uses, names, and so on. some of the research is on what readers like and trends though I don't bank heavily on those its just nice things to know. Because of these things I you will rarely find a moment I am not working in some aspect. even when it looks like I simply sitting there watching tv I am thinking over what will happen next an what might happen far down the line.

When he time comes for me to put pen to paper I rarely sleep. Everything is planned out though sometimes the story does take a side street but in the end it always gets to its destination...so far. I will write 16 hours or more a day until my brain feels like mush. my kids hate it when I hit my working mode because honestly they end up getting very little of my attention. I try to make up for it when I'm in development mode but that doesn't always work.

looking back to when I had a normal 9-5 job I think I was a lot less stressed and had much more free time then I do now even so I wouldn't change my job for anything. I love to write and while sometimes it gets to wear on me I don't think I could find anything else to o that I would enjoy so much. I might loose sleep, a normal life, and my sanity as I fully immerse myself into my created world but I find it enjoyable and fun.

all that said next time you pick up a book stop and think about what all must have went into those sheets of paper. I don't know who said it but here is a saying that catches in my mind from time to time "writing is easy you just have to sit down and bleed."

Forgotten Mage is out

the first book in the timeless mage trilogy I out. I hope everyone is as exited about the story as I am. I really enjoyed writing about Thad and his son in this new edition to the reawakening saga. I posted the link below for those of you who want to grab it for a nice read.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KSPOM5Q