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Blooking Central is a blog by Cheryl Hagedorn specializing in articles about blogs that have made the transition into books. It is not a book review, rather she explores the mechanisms of how a blog can be transformed into a book- what has worked, what hasn’t and what services are out there for people interested […]
More chapters (21, 22, 23 and 24) are up at Methuselah’s Daughter. I’ve been trying to keep a running commentary on the chapters as we go, but somehow it’s just not happening. So sue me. Lots of what happens in these chapters are the direct result of arguments between Dean and I. Arguments about how […]
Chapter 17 is up at 3500years.com, and it has some disturbing stuff in it. I remember when I was writing it and told Dean about it he was taken aback. More than one person who read it asked just how in the hell I could write something like that. Either way, don’t click the […]
Chapter 16 is up at 3500years.com. I haven’t got a lot to say about this piece- it’s pretty much classic Zsallia, particularly the confrontation with Joshua. My only regret here is that we didn’t take the time to develop both Edna and Joshua earlier on in the story because I’m not keen on introducing new […]
Chapter 15 is up at 3500years.com. This was a fun piece to write in that it hints at the future, when isolation and insanity drive Zsallia to believe she is a goddess. We actually had further plans for this story arc, but in the end they never came to pass. We were writing furiously at […]
Chapter 14 is up at 3500years.com. This chapter is a bit incongruous, given where it’s located and what happens in it, but both Dean and I liked it too much to cut it. It’s the first point in the book where the reader learns there’s more to Zsallia than just arrogance and fear- she’s a […]
Latest two chapters are up on 3500years.com. It opens with more talk between Int and Zsallia, then moves forward with the tale of Att and Attuz. As the book progresses a real antagonism develops between Zsallia and her ghost writer, reflecting the growing tension between Dean and me that eventually culminated in our ending the […]
Chapter 11 of Methuselah’s Daughter is up at 3500years.com. This marks the beginning of Part Two of the book, subtitled Destiny’s Road as a quiet tribute to Larry Niven, a favorite author of mine. Part One was subtitled Where The Sidewalk Ends in honor of Shel Sliverstien. The subtitles were chosen with care to attempt […]
The latest chapter of the novel is up at 3500years.com. I try to put up a chapter every couple of weeks, but it can get spotty, particularly if it’s a longer piece. I read through everything and try to fix anything that makes me cringe, but it’s mostly as it was initially released. We really […]
