Update!

I'm posting this new chapter as rough draft and will follow through with some edits tomorrow. If you can't wait until tomorrow, well it's here to read now.

http://travcoleman.blogspot.com/p/chapter-7.html

I'm really hoping that you like where the story is going.  It's fun to right, but the timing of everything I need to happen is a little tricky.  That is part of the cause for the delay, but at least I'm getting the words on the page.

Mid-Season Cliff Hanger aka: I got Sick

There are a few things which kill the urge do to anything so well as getting sick. It seems that my limit of days I can endure with a 102.5 degree fever is at around 4, more then that and I'm heading to the emergency room.

The bad news is that due to the illness and having internet issues I wasn't able to get online. The good news is that I'm back now, life is returning to normal, and that means there is an update.  The link is below:

http://travcoleman.blogspot.com/p/chapter-6.html

So I hope you'll forgive me due to my illness. I'm going to continue things now, and I hope you enjoy the next portion of the story because I'm enjoying writing it.

Chapter 5 Now!

I figured you had waited long enough for the next chapter.  There might be a few typos or bad punctuations in this draft and I apologize.  I'll fix it tomorrow after a good nights sleep.  For now, if you can overlook a possible wrong word, or a misplaced comma, then read away!

Sorry for the Delay

Well, the new chapter has been posted. Sorry for the delay, but it seems this chapter wanted to run long and I'm happy with the way it turned out.  Please take a moment and enjoy. Facebook and Twitter announcements will go up tomorrow, until then enjoy.

Chapter update and a note of delay.

The new chapter is up and I would love to hear some feedback from those of you who are reading it. Are you enjoying the story? Please comment and let me know. Did I mess up on a small obscure fact that leaves the story unbelievable? Send me an e-mail or comment that as well.  I'd love to hear about it.

Also, there has been a minor delay on the release of A Wolf in Patchwork Clothing.  The file that I'd made all my edits on has corrupted. It has added pages where they shouldn't be, mid-chapter, and despite everything I've tried I can't fix it.  It means a set back of two or three days while I get recreate the file and make the necessary fixes. It is coming though, please be patient.

Chapter 2 and The End of a Serial

I apologize for the late post but our internet has been flaky all day.  I'm happy that it seemed to even out about an hour ago so that I could get the formatting for Chapter 2 done.  Here is the second chapter and so far I'm hoping that I've begun to build your interest.

In the mean time I've pulled down the first serial as it was time to do so.  I've finally got my proofs back from my final readers so I can make the necessary changes to the file and get it released. So far I'm really quite happy with the way it is turning out and I hope that if you're just joining us that you'll pickup a copy.

Also, as a said note, the files which were posted online for A Wolf in Patchwork Clothing aren't the final versions of the file.  The story didn't change, but minor sections of the writing have gone through edits to clean up the language and punctuation.  There have also been a few minor continuity problems I had to fix.

Look for the announcement later this week about the book going live. I am looking forward to having more stuff out there for everyone to enjoy.

Nurse Summers begins

Hello and welcome to the new serial. This is a character that I created last year for David Wellington's Fear Project, but the story seemed to take on a life of it's own. Before long I found myself deep in vampire lore and making a vampire of my own.  This is the culmination of that work. Should everything work out well (computers not exploding and what not) I should have a new chapter for you each Sunday.

A few questions I would like to address before you get started. I don't feel any of these are spoilers, more questions that came up a few times during the creation process.  Many of them will be addressed in the story, but knowing it shouldn't lessen the impact.

1) This is not Buffy Summers. I had wanted to use a name that was opposite of her grim demeanor in the first chapter. Summer seemed like the perfect opposite and it wasn't until my wife read it that she pointed out the Buffy reference.  Not that it's a bad thing, but these vampires don't dust when you kill them. The amount of blood would more aptly belong in an Evil Dead movie.  If you want to imagine this is a different Buffy for a different world you can, but I won't support it.

2) The setting is very modern times. As much as I'd like to do a throwback, the story doesn't belong there.

3) Vampires only started existing in this world about 20 years ago. Before that time they were the villains of the silver screen and novels alike.

4) These aren't your normal vampires, you'll understand as you get into the story. You will get into the explanations as the story goes on, but know that if you're expecting Bram Stoker you'll be sorely disappointed.

A final note, this is your last week to find "A Wolf in Patchwork Clothing" on the site. It'll be pulled down when I post next week's chapter. You will be able to find it online on Amazon both in print and in Ebook format.

A few days and a delay

Hello everyone. I'm posting this to let you know that I'm currently hard a work on getting things prepped for the new serial and the new release.  Well, the release isn't new if you've followed my site for a while, but it is in book format.

Announcement #1: The first chapter of the Nurse Summers Serial's will begin on Sunday the 14th with the first chapter Triage.  Each week on Sunday another chapter will be posted.  The length of this one is going to be closer to 60,000 words so it will run for a while and I'm hoping that you enjoy it.

Announcement #2: I was originally going to have the e-book and print copies of A Wolf in Patchwork Clothing available on the 14th as well. Yet due to shipping, something I won't overlook next time in the planning, there has been a delay. I'm hurrying through it as fast as I can but it could be delayed until the 21st.  Sorry for anyone who was looking for it in print.

Otherwise, I'm going to be working hard on getting everything going and probably losing more than a little sleep.

In the meantime I wanted to post a couple of other serial link's that are going right now. The first is the serial "Silence in the Willow Field" by a buddy of mine Lee A. Forman.  The second is a serial which is done by David Wellington. He got his first publishing contract through serial publication of his first novel "Monster Island." Here is a link to his newest serial "Grimbly Hall"

Overloaded

So... I completely forgot about last weeks blog post and it is shameful. What's worse, I didn't take the time to let people know that I was too busy and forgot about this until Sunday afternoon.  So for anyone who was missing my update I'd like to take a moment to say, "I'm sorry."

Well, let's take a moment and talk about projects that I have going right now.  Currently I'm working on an edit and rewrite going for the novel, "A Patchwork of Graves." For anyone following me on David Wellington's Fear Project you were introduced to Patch during week three in the story "To Mend A Broken Heart".  Many people showed interest which makes me happy to have created such a bad guy.

There is also the Fear Project which occupies most of my weekends.  From the time the prompt posts at midnight EST Friday until I send in the submission in, all of my free time is occupied by thoughts of my story.  They might be short in length, probably the length of what I've already written, but the wording is so important.  I can honestly say that in the last four weeks of creating these stories I've learned about the importance of word choice.  It has also helped me in analyzing what I need to cut or change in my own stories to focus on the key elements.

This week I posted a story about Nurse Summers who works in a psychiatric ward. When vampires show up trying to turn her patients into a buffet, she steps up to set things right.  I have to admit that I unwittingly have fallen in love with this character. I never thought that I would want to write  a vampire story.  In fact one of the things that inspired Patch was the lack of a good undead alternative.  But it isn't the vampires that make this story unique, this character seems to have a story behind her behavior that makes me want to explore it.

To answer a question which was posted on my comments the last name is a pop culture reference.  The nurse originally didn't have a name, yet I felt having her nameless was cheating.  When I was thinking of a good name for a woman who is a duty bound slayer of vampires I couldn't resist using the last name.  Just think of this as an Easter Egg and move on, the character isn't Buffy and if I decide to write more with her then you'll see just that.

What has been discussed is just about a third of what my project list has on it.  Needless to say I'll be busy for sometime into the future working on getting all of these done.  But on the bright side, at least I won't be a writer who finds himself without an idea after writing one novel.  I will have to say that I've been blessed with a mind full of fun new ideas.