{"id":6227,"date":"2008-09-01T00:15:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T05:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2008\/09\/01\/important_announcement_on_my_book_series\/"},"modified":"2008-09-01T00:15:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T05:15:25","slug":"important_announcement_on_my_book_series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2008\/09\/01\/important_announcement_on_my_book_series\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Announcement On My Book Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Just a quick update<\/strong> to let everyone know that I am about 12% through editing book 1 of the Merlin Spiral.  My goal is to reduce my book from 154,000 words down to 100,000 words&mdash;if possible.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>So far I am on course.<\/strong>  Although I am only a small percentage through my book, I have already cut 7,500 words!  And that without sacrificing my plot, characters, or creativity.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>And my book is MUCH stronger<\/strong> and will read faster.  Most was just subtle overwriting.  Something you might not notice, but it was there.  And my eye is getting stronger to spot this and I will be able to write leaner and meaner from here on out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And yes, for those of you who have been reading my blog for awhile, the name of my series <em>has<\/em> changed.  Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It is because I have made a decision<\/strong> to split my five book series into two trilogies &#8230; <strong>The Merlin Spiral<\/strong> with Books 1-3, and <strong>The Pendragon Spiral<\/strong> with its own Books 1-3.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.EpicTales.org\/images\/Robert\/MerlynSpiral_Medium.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"The Merlin Spiral\" title=\"The Merlin Spiral\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>This affords me a few advantages:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A publisher will not have to initially commit to as many books as I eventually want to write, allowing them an earlier exit and more comfort if sales do not live up to expectations (although this is NOT the goal!).<\/li>\n<li>I will be allowed to take a breather between the two series, taking some pressure off to get a book out every single year six years in a row.<\/li>\n<li>It allows me to write more about Merlin, and make him clearly the focus for the first three books.  This makes it possible to fit in a book that didn&#8217;t fit before about Merlin&mdash;one that is on my heart maybe more than the others, but doesn&#8217;t deal with Arthur quite as much.<\/li>\n<li>My &#8220;spiral&#8221; logo is a triskele, which has three spirals whirling out from the center.  This logo makes perfect sense for a trilogy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the book names as they now stand:<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p><strong>The Merlin Spiral<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Merlin&#8217;s Blade<\/li>\n<li>Merlin&#8217;s Shadow<\/li>\n<li>Merlin&#8217;s Nightmare<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"50%\">\n<p><strong>The Pendragon Spiral<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Arthur&#8217;s Blade<\/li>\n<li>Pendragon&#8217;s Blood<\/li>\n<li>Morgana&#8217;s Hour<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Tune in soon<\/strong> for an update about how God has allowed my daughter and I to attend the ACFW conference coming up in a little over two weeks!  But let me give a taste: <em>God acted amazingly in a single hour<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Views: 18<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nJust a quick update to let everyone know that I am about 12% through editing book 1 of the Merlin&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2008\/09\/01\/important_announcement_on_my_book_series\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Important Announcement On My Book Series&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,19,14,15,20,16,21,51,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-merlin-spiral","category-1-arthurs-blade","category-1-merlins-blade","category-2-merlins-shadow","category-2-pendragons-blood","category-3-merlins-nightmare","category-3-morganas-hour","category-editing-fiction","category-progress-reports","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/MerlynSpiral_Medium31.jpg?fit=320%2C160","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p67v0M-1Cr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}