by TR Cameron
My next read is going to be Michael Anderle’s Obsidian Detective. I loved Blade Runner, and the book’s ambiance hearkens back to that. November 2019 is also the month the film was set in, so it’s doubly appropriate!
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Author Notes - Martha Carr
November 26, 2019
So, we’re cruising toward the end of the year – and the start of a new decade. Both for me and for the planet. I turned 60 this year and we’re all heading into 2020. My rallying cry for the next year is to do less and create more. I’ll explain…
At the start of this year, my goal was to see if I could expand. Maybe create a universe on my own and call it what I wanted (Peabrain… and side note… mixed reception on the name – big love for the books – and let’s test if Michael Anderle is reading these notes – he was right…), go to more conferences, create more opportunities. I guess the watchword was… MORE!
And I got more. More staff, more responsibility, more deadlines, more things to do, more travel, more shaking hands, more meetings, more phone calls. Till one day I noticed I was creating less, doing more and not as happy. It’s always a good idea to pay attention to who you’re dying to emulate. Mine were all authors who seemed to have more time to contemplate what they wanted to put on a page. You know… write.
I think the best moment was when I was doing daily Facebook Live readings of books that were coming out that week with a throwback oldie on Fridays and I was doing timed sprints with another author, Charley Case who’s in the new universe, Terranavis (more on that in a second), and answering a few emails so I wouldn’t forget or nothing slipped through the cracks. Sprints, by the way, are when you go for 30 or 40 minutes writing as fast as you can, take a break for 10 minutes and then do it again. No social media, no phone calls, no nothing during that sprint. I did the best I could under the circumstances. And Charley and I took turns keeping time.
But for some reason on this particular day, I was the timer and I remembered to set the timer on my phone – good first step. Somewhere in there I noticed the time and realized I needed to get on Facebook Live and start reading. Totally forgot about Charley…
Even better, during the live reading the timer went off on my phone and I looked over, turned it off and thought, What was that about?
Even better than that, after a while, Charley wondered if I had forgotten about the timer and he took his own break, wandering over to Facebook to take a look around and who should he see LIVE! He even said hello and listened for a few minutes.
We had a good laugh about it after the reading was over.
It was time to simplify and get back to what I love. So, all the series in the new universe I was doing have been merged with LMBPN and have a new name, Terranavis. They even have a Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/terranavisuniverse/ and a Facebook Group will be coming tomorrow. I shut down a lot of the other things and felt a weight lift off me, and I planned out a sane number of books to write for next year (sane for me, okay, I get it – work in progress).
There’s some really good stuff coming out – to start with all those Terranavis books at the end of December, plus some great expansion of Oriceran and a familiar detective and her troll will make a return. Maybe even another new collaborator.
Plus, I’m still sprinting with Charley, but he’s agreed to be the permanent timer. I’m timer emeritus. I even got a cool new chair that Charley raved about almost every day for months. It comes Monday. Gotta go. It’s been a long day of words and dinner needs to be fixed, before it all starts over tomorrow. Simpler plan though, which will also leave me with more time to chat with all of you. More adventures to follow.
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THE DANIEL CODEX SERIES
I FEAR NO EVIL
THE UNBELIEVABLE MR. BROWNSTONE
ALISON BROWNSTONE
SCHOOL OF NECESSARY MAGIC
SCHOOL OF NECESSARY MAGIC: RAINE CAMPBELL
FEDERAL AGENTS OF MAGIC
SCIONS OF MAGIC
THE LEIRA CHRONICLES
REWRITING JUSTICE
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MIDWEST MAGIC CHRONICLES
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THE FAIRHAVEN CHRONICLES
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