... and Friday

We got a powdering of snow last night, about an inch out here in Lakewood, but only a trace where I live. Just enough to be pretty, and make it look more like December. At this rate Denver may be heading for a brown Christmas, though I gather that it's different in the mountains - snow pack ahead of normal and ski areas doing great. But it's been dry enough in town that I've started watering things like rose bushes and fruit trees at the weekend - assuming it's above freezing!

I've started one more ebook giveaway on Librarything, this one for Storyteller Songs. This is a one-week giveaway only, ending on Christmas Eve. Take a look if you're interested.

A snow picture today - not from this morning, when I didn't have time for photography, but from last month. But the effect is much the same.



I've been working my way through the first three books, collecting character descriptions and getting Gwernin's voice back in my head in preparation to start writing again. I'm really looking forward to it!

-GRG

Storyteller Songs published

I've published it on Lulu and on Smashwords today. So far paper copies are available only on Lulu, but it should reach Amazon in about a month. Not that I expect sales - how many books do even well-known poets sell? - but I'll have hard copies to offer locally, and anyone else who wants it can get it.

Now back to work... I've been working on timelines today, working out when some things had to happen in order for other things to happen, so I don't paint myself into a corner. I know I have made one or two continuity mistakes in the past, but they weren't major, and anyway Gwernin's an old man, and also a storyteller... so he may make a few slips, or artistic emendations, in his stories. We all do it as we get older. How much do any of us really know about our own pasts?

Back to work now.

-GRG

New covers

First, a possible new cover for The Druid's Son, the book I'm currently writing.

Then, a possible cover for Storyteller Songs, the poetry collection I mentioned in a previous post:



I think the photographic style matches earlier books in the series better. What do you think?


eta: I just tweaked the fonts on the second cover a bit...

-GRG

New project

Having ported the e-editions of all my existing books over to Smashwords, I've been playing with another little project: a collection of all the poetry in the first three Storyteller books, together with some of the surrounding prose. It'll be a small chapbook, available through Smashwords and then eventually through Lulu and Amazon. I pulled the text together in a spare couple of hours yesterday afternoon, but the cover design will take a little longer. The title is "Storyteller Songs: Poetry from the Young Gwernin Trilogy".

Meanwhile I have another busy weekend coming up. After that things quiet down somewhat, and I can start writing again!

-GRG