Jesus H. Christ, it’s been a crazy couple months. I’m sorry
I kind of vanished like that, but life has been in pretty massive turmoil.
However, I have been working, so there’s that. I have good news on that front…
but first, the less than good news that’s kept me a bit distracted.
There’s a couple things that sort of conspired to make this
mess. The biggest one has been the dogs with cancer. I talked about this in my
last newsletter (Which was admittedly forever and a half ago), but we’ve had
two dogs with tumors in the past couple months. One of them was a benign little
mammary tumor, so that was just a surgery and she was good. The other one was a
grade 3 histiocytoma… not quite as easy. Poor little guy went through a month
of radiation, and he’s getting chemo every 10 days until they’re sure that he’s
good to go. As you can imagine, that held quite a bit of my attention. For a
while. But we’re settling into a routine around here again.
So, on to the good news. I’ve definitely not forgotten about
Evenstad Media Presents. This cancer adventure (Let’s call it that.) put the
brakes on a bit, but I officially can give you some actual information on this.
Are you ready? The Tunnels, Evenstad Media Presents #4, is written. It’s edited
and it’s formatted and all that happy whatnot. I’ve got the art request form in
with my cover artist, so once that’s done, I’ll be able to get it up on the ‘Zon,
get the print book put together, and it will (finally) be in your hot little
hands.
I think The Tunnels is the best book in the series since The
Park. I know I should love all my books equally, but… this one. Without giving
too much away, this book sees a lot of long-running plot threads come to a
head, and it sets us all up for a strong run to the final book (#7). Things
start to get really shaken up in this book, and they only get more and more
shaken until the series is over, which just excites the crap out of me.
Beyond that, I’ve started working off of a yearly schedule.
I mean, sure, it starts in July instead of January, but it lasts a year. Not
important. What is important is what’s on it. By next June, I should have Evenstad
#5 and #6 done and either out or ready to ship out very shortly, and then it
goes on to the final installment. I also have Rings of Injustice, the third
book in my big, sweeping sci-fi series (That I still haven’t published. Don’t
worry, that’s coming soon, too.) on the schedule, as well as five books for The
Other Me. I figured I can do about 9-10 books each year as long as I stick to
my schedule.
Anything else? Umm… well, I’ll be at some conventions and
such in the area with the Northwest Authors Co-Op. I believe our next event is
at the end of September, for V-Con in Vancouver, BC. And I’ll be presenting a
workshop at the Idaho Writers League conference in Couer d’Alene and at the
Moses Lake Public Library Comic-Con in Moses Lake… at the library. Go figure.
If you’ll be at or around any of those events, go ahead and swing on over and
say hi!
I believe that’s it. I’ll make sure to keep y’all much more
updated than I did the past couple months… unless something completely insane
happens again. Then I may disappear for a bit. But barring the unforeseen? I’ll
see you on the bestseller lists (Maybe… hopefuly?).
Voss
