Here it is, the cover for Book 6 in the Eldritch files, ELEMENTAL STORM! (The newsletter got to see it first!) I never thought I’d come this far so quickly with this series. And I am truly thankful for the readers and supporters of Sam, Ivan, and Kyle. 

But with this reveal comes a delay as well. And as before with Elemental Soul’s delay, the reasons are strictly mine and not due to anything else. With the addition of MAGICIAN’S GAME, set to release on preorder August 13th, as well as a Shadowrun novel due the beginning of August, it became painfully clear that delivering a finished, edited version of CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT wasn’t going to happen for July. I can do 12K words a day for just so many days before my head explodes and I get a blister on my wrist. 

No joke. A real owy blister. 

I wiped my white board clean and started over with scheduling, moving the things I had control over. I can’t change the release of MAGICIAN’S GAME because Amazon penalizes you if you change a pre-order release date. The contracted SR book has to get to the editor ASAP (though I’d love to see a cover, John!) because…well…CONTRACT.  

I have an upcoming vacation with my real life Kyle Kendrick that I can’t miss. The two of us in New Orleans is gonna be fun \O/ and I have a daughter starting High School next month. That…just makes me blink when I type that. A kid in high school…wow. 

It’s time to update the free stuff on the newsletter. I like offering Grimoire as a freebie, but I think giving readers a more pertinent offering for them when they join is better. 

So… 

When this website goes back up, the newsletter will no longer offer GRIMOIRE, the origin story, but CHIMERA, a pre-Chronicles and Eldritch story on how Samantha and Grey hooked up. I’m working on it this week and getting it ready for the editor to run through it. I’m also very much aware no one can see this post yet since the site’s not live. But I want to have a few blog posts in the can when it does. 

Once I have a cover of CHIMERA, then I’ll post it up here. Also, when the switch happens, I’ll give newsletter members a link to download it on their own for a limited time. And if you don’t get the newsletter, as in you subscribed but that link didn’t come to you, re-subscribe again. If you get a warning that your address is already there, you won’t be subscribed twice. But if it goes through, then you’ll get the prompt to download the book like a new subscriber. 

If you get the warning, contact me off the website and I’ll send you the link to download.  ;) 

Now…back to the website and content. 

Starting over on a website with nothing—and I mean nothing—is daunting. It’s got potential, but there’s really nothing more than a shell. And though it seems kinda sad, it’s also like starting fresh, which is how I am choosing to look at it.

The thing that took down my previous site was malicious code. And a lot of it. This can get in there any number of ways. And according to my previous hosting service, it did. But it wasn’t the code that prompted this complete host change and new site. It was the customer service, or lack of it. I start out with a clean frame, a clean site and a clean host.

What that means is no backlog of posts. This will be the first.

I thought I was going to use MUSE to create a new site, and I was halfway done before I realized it doesn’t have a blogging function. The only way to get a blog is to embed one from another site like Blogger. Uh…no. I need this as simple as possible. I’m already behind in everything…

Like, really behind in Chimes At Midnight, but I’m going to do my best to get that sucker out there. I also have the next Shadowrun story due to Catalyst August 1st. And I have a trip to New Orleans this month. o.O

To quote Velma Dinkley, “Jinkies!”