Hi All.
Long time, no blog. Over a year I think. Have not really checked. So why now? Well, I have lost contact with a few of you and I would love tht contact to be returned. I miss SC more than even sometimes I admit. My first Love was here, my first opening up my soul, as glorious or dark as it has been happened on these pages...
Here is the skinny on the latest:
1) Finished Book 2 of The Revenant Cycle when I was forced to take an unexpected leave of the web from September to January. Many of my finest friends were worried for me and my state of mind knowing that his was one of my very few outlets. Well, I can say it was hard. I can say it was extremely tough and emotionally devastating to be cut off from my support network which I happily and sadly admit exists more Online than Off.
The second book is called Faerie Dark and has Revenant in a few chapters but mostly deals with the Fair Folk and their place in the world I have built. I am currently working on the third book and watch for my announcement soon about it. It ties some loose ends together and yet, opens up more mysteries as well.
2) The hunt for a publisher goes on. Every time I think I have one interested they slip off the hook (metaphorically speaking, but don't give me ideas! Editors are NOT easy to deal with...) I hope my chances will improve as i move this coming summer...
3) My family life is strained to say the least. I want out and I want out asap. I just think i am making progress when the carpet is yanked from under my feet. It is time, past time, I did something for myself.
4) My physical health has waxed and waned over the past year... My pain has tripled in some cases and I have a myriad of other issues that I fight with all my heart but my Heart itself was damaged last year and I am not always at my peak. I hav for the last three weeks - a month been in such bad pain at times i am not sure if a baby Alien is trying to burst out! My legs feel as if they have run multiple marathons and my upper body aches even from typing. My legs hurt more when I lay, my arms and neck when I sit, Standing is completely impossible for any length of time... Why? I don't know. I have no Dr here and the cold hard facts are I am not likely to as to as long as I live under the same roof with my mother. My problems you see are because I have "no pain tolerance." as she puts it. Well, when I am crying myself to sleep in bed because the pain is do incredibly bad and I have no way to stop it, I strt getting more and more depressed. I am up now so I can hopefully find the "zone" in my writing and ignore the body issues but it has yet to be easy.
If you wish to do me a good turn any of the following will be appreciated: light a candle for me, say a prayer, perform some religious ceremony you practice, it matters not to me as I am open to all but it is the well-meant thought that counts.. Believe me, with some of the problems I face, I will not complain one bit..
Finally, I do not want anyone to think I am only here to vent and dump. I write here because I never have been judged here. I write because so many of you mean so much to me and in the long run, not a single one of you has ever turned me out...
Thank You, From the Bottom of my Heart and all My Spirit and Soul,
Dave