If you read fantasy for the magic, the world-building, and the occasional moment of dark humor—I write that. One urban fantasy series, one epic fantasy series, both set in the Fractured Arcana universe, with more coming. My newsletter takes you deeper into the worlds, the characters, and what's next.
Happy Neo Year
Welcome to 2022! I don’t have a ton of writing updates, as I spent most of the last week doing family-related mayhem (including a trip to Fiesta Texas, watching all the old Spider-Man movies with my oldest in prep for the new movie… and throwing in The Matrix b/c I just thought she needed her mind blown) and house projects. Unfortunately, some of the crown molding showed-up damaged, so I had to return it. I’m waiting on more to arrive, leaving the project half-done. And tomorrow I jump back into work (though this email won’t go out until Tuesday). I can’t think of a time I’ve dreaded returning to work so much—there’s just too much packed into the next six months.
I’ve never been much on New Year’s resolutions, but that’s not a statement against resolutions. It is rather a feeling that I can start something new any day. Why wait? That said, one of the sillier things I have missed since COVID began is a chin-up bar. There was one along the route I would run at lunchtime from work. I’d really like to get a chin-up bar again, and not just a doorframe bar, but a full-on bar I can swing on. 😜 So that'll be my silly resolution for 2022--find, or built, a chin-up bar. Yeah, yeah, resolutions should be reading or writing related... but my plans in those regards are already mapped out. You have any good ones?
Writing Updates
Slow week for me writing-wise. I did a little reading (which I find I must carve out time to do these days). I spent some time with a FB ad trainer trying to improve my ad game—I’ve got a “Brand Awareness” ad running now, though I don’t really, truly, understand the point. Yet.
Recognizing that I need help keeping momentum going while I work on Book 4, I hired someone to help create a Street Team and teach me how to use one—Christine Hutton. Again, I don’t know how this will work out—taking chances and learning.
Speaking of Book 4, I started editing it. No title yet… FreeWorld something something. The Price of Freedom? Freedom’s Price? FreeWorld’s Price. 🤷♂️ I’ve got some massive structural edits planned for the middle, so it’ll take some time.
o To-Do list for writing last week:
Email updates- Poke on Amazon hardback creation
- Fix the logo on website & books
o To-Do list for writing this week:
- Email updates
- Continue editing Book 4 (this will be on my to-do for many weeks).
- Poke on Amazon hardback creation
- Fix the logo on website & books (I can see I'm draggin' my feet on this one. There's a lot of work involved in updating books and getting the various formats uploaded to all of the sites.)
Previous Newsletters
- Treasure - 12/22/2021
- Happy Holidays - 12/19/2021
- A week of Promotions - 12/12/2021
- Elf on the Shelf and the Bless-Yous of Winter - 12/05/2021
- Thanks have been given - 11/30/2021
- Reviews, but not bookish reviews... - 11/23/2021
- Lights, digital recording device, action… - 11/16/2021
- Annnnd... cue Christmas! - 11/09/2021
- Book 3 Hype-Up Coming Soon - 11/02/2021
- Losing Faith, a Calyx Twins Story - 10/26/2021 📜 Losing Faith, a Calyx Twins Story.pdf
- New pics for Book 1 - 10/19/2021
- Happy Birthday, Middle Egg - 10/12/2021
- Age Before Duty -10/05/2021 📜 Age-Before-Duty.pdf
- Grundle's Hope - 9/28/2021 📜 Grundle's-Hope.pdf
Steven J Morris
If you read fantasy for the magic, the world-building, and the occasional moment of dark humor—I write that. One urban fantasy series, one epic fantasy series, both set in the Fractured Arcana universe, with more coming. My newsletter takes you deeper into the worlds, the characters, and what's next.
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