Month: July 2014

  • First Draft Finished on “The Selling of Suzee Delight”

    The story ran longer than planned—23,929 words rather than 20,000—but I brought the first draft in on deadline. I had to write 2653 words today to HIT that deadline, but I did it. So as promised, here is a largish version of the final cover art (clickable to show an even bigger version. Your votes…

  • Thank you for voting on the Suzee Delight Cover Art

    The comments, both positive and negative, were tremendously helpful. The raw test for COVER 3 won votes by a massive amount, but as I noted, that was NOT a finished cover. It was a rough draft. My overall changes have addressed the following issues: No text over Suzee’s eyes. Brighter skin tone—she can’t be mistaken for…

  • Possible Cover Art for THE SELLING OF SUZEE DELIGHT

    VOTING HAS NOW CLOSED. Click here to see the final version of the cover art. I’ve done three possible covers for SUZEE DELIGHT. Posting them below, and would very much appreciate a vote on the one you like best. COVER #1 COVER #2 COVER #3   Download as PDFPrint Page

  • The Selling of Suzee Delight: The Captain’s Dinner

    Turns out there has been treachery and evil aboard the Longview, with the spy revealed today. I’m happy with what I got—have written more than four thousand words since my last check-in.  I’m at 14,452 words out of a planned 20,000, but the story is once again running a bit long on me. I’ll definitely be…

  • Past the Halfway Point on “The Selling Of Suzee Delight”

    I wrote 2004 words, and have now completed more than 10,120 words of the story, so I’m past the halfway point. Today Kagen, after finding himself dumped from the Longview, located a strange temporary job in the City of Furies processing protests from famous people regarding the trouble in which Suzee Delight finds herself. And Melie, still Two…

  • Snippet #2 from Longview 2: The Selling Of Suzee Delight

    I was planning on posting a snippet yesterday, but REAL LIFETM intruded, and while I got all my words, I never made it back to the blog. I got all my words again today, so at the the moment, Suzee Delight is sitting at 5888 words out of a planned 20,000. More than 25% done.…

  • The Selling of Suzee Delight: The start, and a snippet

    Along with other work today, I got the first 1480 words written on Tales From The Longview #2: The Selling of Suzee Delight. As with the first story in the series, I’ve started with the main character, who in this case is the First Courtesan of the Court of the Diamond Dome, a pleasure palace…