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Life, writing

August Rising

I. Ogunbase

You know… I started this year with the thought that I’d blog a lot more consistently than I did last year and after February, it’s almost like I forgot.

I mean, I didn’t but I might as well have, no?

In any case, we are past the halfway point of this year and to be honest, it’s been a better year than most even if it could be a lot better.

Life has been busy.

My mind has been occupied.

But I’m grateful that I can still wake up in the morning and at the very least, smile that my world is not falling apart.

THE CATCH UP

To start off with, “Beta: The Hierarchy, Book 2” is complete and currently being edited and reworked to fix some problems and add some dynamics I missed on my first write-through.

Like Book 1, this will be self published as well. I will be making a post about the ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) closer to when it’s ready for release.

I am hoping for end of September but I haven’t settled on a date yet. But it hopefully will be soon.

THE OTHER

The other book needs to be edited as well and prepped. It is my hope to publish that one through the traditional route but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous about it.

I was advised to just self publish whilst querying for a publisher and I might still do that but I feel like I want to test out the traditional route even if it’s just this once.

Hopefully, that will also end well.

THE LAST

For those of you who enjoy my occasional poetry, I’m sorry that I haven’t woven anything into the tapestry that is the poetry section of my website.

To be honest, I’ve had a lot of material to work with but the emotions have been too current(?) to digest into words and rhyme.

But seeing as I’m here, I plan to return back to it. I miss it and it did help to unburden myself from emotions that weren’t worth carrying anymore.

All in all, I’m back.

And I hope to stay for longer this time around.

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Something For the Week’s End

I. Ogunbase

So, January’s in full swing and to be completely honest with you, I’m still on holiday even though it sadly ends tomorrow. It’s been lovely to just rest, sleep and play copious amounts of Monopoly (which was interesting as you all know) before work restarts and we get dragged back into the humdrum of 9-5s and scheduled works.

But in the meantime, it’s been a lovely time for family and the relative mental silence. Plus a little time to reflect is always great. Hope your new year has been great so far. It’s always exciting to start something new.

For this year, I want to write more. So, I’m going to get back into trying to blog more regularly. I’m thinking something on the Thursdays but I don’t want the excitement of my new prospects to get to me, so we’re playing it by ear.

In essence, this is the first of the new year.

Let’s get this metaphorical bread…

To start off, ‘Beta’ is almost done in writing. To give some context, it’s book two to an existing series of mine aptly named “Alpha”. Don’t ask me why I went with those names. It was cool (and I still think it is :P).

Alpha is a vampire/sci-fi/thriller book about, well… vampires. It began off a prompt and ended up being the first book I finished writing even though it wasn’t the one I published first. It was good practice and I’m hoping to do it justice with the sequel.

‘Beta’ is almost complete after which it’s going to be edited and re-jigged around to ensure it is an exhilarating read and better than what came before it. I plan for it to be a trilogy so after ‘Beta’, I’ll be playing one more time in that world before putting it aside until another time. We shall discuss the other book later.

Secondly, as a recommendation of a book to read, here’s one for you. It’s one of the books from the derby and to be completely honest with you, I really did love reading it. I’m not going to say much about it but I think it’s worth a read. Details below.

Lastly, I… lol, there’s not lastly. I think I’ve covered what I want to cover for this post.

But here’s a question to you (and please do answer)… what are your plans for the year? Anything grand? Anything simple? Something in-between? It would be nice to know!

See you all in the comments!