Your Preview Chapter: Mad World – Chapter 52

A week from today, I’m releasing the entire book! I’m so freakin’ excited! I’m so proud of this book and this series so far, but even more importantly — this is the closest I’ve ever released any of my books, lol. Usually, I release one book a year and this year, I’ve managed to get two full books done with a third in the wings that might be ready in December if my schedule works out. Definitely my best year ever! Let me know what you think, what you’re looking forward to. I can’t wait for you guys to read it.

Your Update Link: Not Knowing When – Part 5

Facelift: Too Dead To Cry & Catch Me When I Fall

Happy Monday! What a great way to kick off a new week. First, I just want to let you guys know that I found out this morning that I got a job I’d interviewed for a week or so ago. I’d almost given up hope! I’m not officially starting the district job (with salary and benefits) until November, but my real start date is up in the air as they try to negotiate with my substitute company to get me in ASAP. I could start Wednesday, or any day after that.

That’s obviously a huge change in my life since I hadn’t anticipated going back to work permanently this year or at all until late October due to Covid closures in my county. Right now, I can’t begin to predict how it’s going to change my writing schedule. I write full-time now, but even that is only about 4-5 hours a day. Until I get an official start date and a look at my schedule and curriculum, I can’t make any changes or adjustments.

The most likely thing that’s going to happen is I’ll be moving Flash Fiction around to better suit my energy levels. I’ll probably take a week off and see how my schedule is and where I can fit an hour. That might mean doubling up on Saturdays or moving the Wednesday fic — I don’t know. That’s the first place I’d take time. The second place I’d look to make adjustments is push out the due date for Book 4 of Mad World from beginning of December to late Dec or early January. I really just don’t know, but I have some ideas ready to go for how to adjust my schedule on the fly.

What isn’t changing is Book 3’s release date, so no worries there. I’m posting the second preview chapter tomorrow with the full novel being released next Tuesday at 7 AM.

In other news — I worked on the Facelift today. I made graphics for two of my oldest stories — Too Dead to Cry and Catch Me When I Fall. They’re both song fictions from 2002, and I was able to embed the YouTube videos for the songs which is better than my old approach to all of that. Both stories have been linked on Alternate History page and had their links updated on my Alphabetical List. I also made graphics for Not Knowing When which you can see on the Alternate History & Flash Fiction Page. I’m gonna show them all off below because, heh, I want to.

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Your Update Link: Signs of Life – Part 2

Ugh. This day, lol. It was going well until I went to my niece’s birthday. My sister has a lot of friends who all apparently had twelve kids each, so the house was packed with small screaming children. I was counting down to the singing of Happy Birthday so I could nope out of there. We get everyone gathered around for the cake, and then we start looking for the birthday girl.

We search the entire house, the kids are sent on search teams — she’s nowhere. We start yelling her name. Nada.

The anxiety starts to set in — she’s the only kid we can’t find, and we start getting close to panicking —

And then we find her. She, along with two friends invited to the party, decided to go across the street to play with the toys in the other yard. Without telling anyone. She’s safe, but now I feel  thousand years old, and I’m gonna chip this kid like a dog so I can always find her.

ANYWAY. That was my day. I also edited another chapter of Book 3 — I had to add a scene and tweak half of it, so I didn’t get more than the one chapter done. No worries. I’ll make up the other two chapters tomorrow. I’m taking most of the day off tomorrow (I promise!) to clean the house and to relax. I’ll do a few hours in the morning, and then leave the office after that.

Your Update Link: A King’s Command – Part 4

Happy Friday! I hope you guys had a good week. I was very busy here at CG as you probably noticed, so make sure you check out the Recent Updates page for any missed updates.

Today, I cleaned up Alternate History a bit by moving a bunch of my smaller 2002 Ficlets into a cluster I’m calling Take the Chance. I’m doing that because I looked at making graphics all of these smaller stories and realized — they’re nearly identical. They were all episode tags written between October-December 2002 when Liason fans were still delusionally thinking Courtney was a pit stop on the road to our couple. So it’s a lot of the same concept written over and over again, LOL.

I got a bit distracted in my Facelift journey by thinking I could just organize all my Liason screencaps to make graphics easier, and then work my way through the stories once those were done. The summer of 2002 is really kicking my butt, so I’m going to start moving stories into the History category and leave graphics for later.  The other History change I made was adding listings for all my Flash Fiction series. They’re noted as a Flash Fiction series necessary, so that you can see where they fit in and that you don’t miss them.

My final bit of news for the day is a production schedule change. I was supposed to start planning Damaged in December once the first draft of Fool Me Twice was done, but then I really thought about what writing that project would look like. Damaged is a lot like Mad World and Fool Me Twice. A lot of moving parts and huge ensemble piece. I’m kind of tired already, and I still have to edit the rest of Book 3 and Book 4 and write Fool Me Twice. I’m feeling burnt out just thinking about it.

So I’m going to switch Damaged and Book 2 of For the the Broken Girl. This means Broken Girl 2 will be out in May/June and not September. Broken Girl will be intense, but it’s more narrowly focused and I think I definitely need that after the last six months, LOL.

I’ll see you guys tomorrow for the next part of Signs of Life!

Your Update Link: The Ghost in the Girl

Good morning! As promised, I am posting the revised short story, The Ghost in the Girl. I wrote it as the first Sunday Rewrite short story in three parts. Parts 1 & 2 are largely the same — but they’ve been edited and refined–even expanded in some areas. Part 3 was heavily rewritten. I added a lot to the Liason scene in the park and rewrite the ending of the story entirely. Please take a read and let me know how you like it!

I’ll see you guys tomorrow for Flash Fiction!

Your Update Link: A Shot in the Dark – Part 4

ICYMI: Mad World, Chapter 51

I hope you’re having a good week! A reminder that I posted the first chapter of Mad World, Book 3, yesterday and the next preview will be up on Tuesday. The full novel will be released in chapters everywhere on Tuesday, October 6. I’ll be scheduling all the chapters next weekend when I finish the editing. I’m about halfway through now.

Today, I finished revisions for The Ghost in the Girl, and those you who read the Flash Fiction version will be pleasantly surprised, I hope. I refined and edited Parts 1 & 2, then mostly rewrote Part 3, adding a few new scenes and rewriting the ending. It’ll be up tomorrow at 7 AM.

Have a great night!

Your Update Link: Mad World – Chapter 51

TWO MORE WEEKS. I’m so freakin’ excited! Please enjoy this first of your two preview chapters and make sure you’re caught up and ready for October 6. Check out the first two books in Mad World and I’ll see you tomorrow for the next flash fiction.

 

Your Update Link: Not Knowing When – Part 4

I’m going to be harassing you basically every day this week, LOL! Tonight, we kick off the fourth week of Flash Fiction, so that’s Monday, Wednesday, Friday AND Saturday. Then tomorrow, you’re getting the first chapter of Mad World, Book 3. It’s already scheduled and ready to go, so it will be up around 7 AM tomorrow like in the old days. You’re getting one more preview chapter next Tuesday — and then the whole thing goes live at 7 am on October 6. I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW CLOSE WE ARE! I’m so excited for you guys to read this book.

And — on Thursday, you’ll have the edited version of The Ghost in the Girl. If you read the Flash Fiction series, you’ll probably still want to peruse the edit. I’m cleaning up typos, some dialogue notes, and I’m contemplating adding just one or two more scenes. I’m still editing that.

It’s a busy week!

Your Update Link: The Ghost in the Girl, Part 3

ICYMI: Signs of Life – Part 1

Happy Sunday! Today is the last part of my 2001 short story, The Ghost in the Girl. As I said in yesterday’s update, I’m shifting my schedule slightly so that I can keep four regular updates a week  but also the idea of a day where I just fill in Liason history I haven’t written yet. This is the last Sunday update for the moment. I mean — I honestly might write next week, but I also might not. You’ll never know 😛

I’ll be cleaning up The Ghost in the Girl this week — fixing typos, adjusting dialogue in a few spaces — then distributing it on all platforms including a full link on the Alternate History page.

I did watch the Liason scene from last week (9/14) a little bit ago, but I want to get caught up on the rest of the week before I think about an episode tag.  I don’t have a lot to say in today’s update because I’ve been harassing you guys a lot lately, LOL, and I’ll be back tomorrow with Not Knowing When.

 

Your Update Link: Signs of Life – Part 1

Vlog Update: Fool Me Twice – Part 6

Happy Birthday to Crimson Glass! With the exception of a brief period in 2012, my GH fanfiction has been online somewhere since September 19, 2002 which means today, CG turns eighteen! It’s insane, LOL, because it means half my life has been spent writing or thinking about fanfiction.

In celebration, I wanted to do something fun and special. I said last night that I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write for my Sunday series once The Ghost in the Girl wraps up tomorrow, so I was thinking of shifting to another series from either 1997 or 1999. But — both of these stories are going to be in depth series. They were actually on my drawing board as full-fledged novels. If I don’t write them as Flash Fiction series, you won’t be reading them for another 3-4 years so I tossed them into Flash Fiction.

Writing one of them on Sundays means that I would be changing what I wanted Sundays to be — short stories and single shots to flesh out pieces of Liason history.  What I’m doing is replacing regular updates on Sunday with Saturday updates. You’ll get Signs of Life on Saturdays for as long as it takes me to write it. Then, on Sundays, when I’m struck with inspiration, you’ll get new Flash Fics there. It feels like a good compromise, and then I can write on Sundays when I truly feel inspired.

In other news — I’m also posting the newest vlog update for Fool Me Twice. There’s a lot of details in here about flashbacks, soundtracking, and even some sneak peeks for subplots. I’ll see you guys tomorrow with the conclusion of The Ghost in the Girl!