Another Resurgence

I've revived my Twitter account: donayahaymond . Follow me if you wish. I'm adept at texting these days so it should work better (my last phone couldn't send texts).

Also, thanks to the encouragement of my biggest non-professional fan, Sam, I've restarted my first non-Laconia novel, Seasons Four Open the Door . I'm posting it chapter by chapter at the following locations:

http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2393577/7/Seasons_Four_Open_the_Door

http://fanstory.com/displaystory.jsp?id=417291

http://www.textnovel.com/story_detail.php?story_id=2091&_p=1

It's less than a quarter finished and it's already in excess of 25,000 words, so it's going to be one of my longer ones. I want to have something to offer other publishers while I wait for Eternal Press to get through all of Laconia, which will take the next few years. I would offer it to EP too, but I can only offer one novel at a time, and only three months after the previous one is published. That's to be fair to the people who didn't spend their high school years typing in the basement :D .

Here is a summary for the novel:

Jared finds that his mother's basement has been turned into an underground lake from a world where no one is surprised by anything. He saves a young woman who claims to be Spring. Meanwhile, Kira of the Temperate Zone finds that killing Summer, no matter how much he deserves it, has started opening portals between the realm of the Seasons and what they call Next Door.

Magical realism, urban fantasy, and dashes of both cyberpunk and steampunk.

The Blog is Revitalized!

It's been a long time since blog posts, mainly because I always feel like I can only say so much about already-published novels before it gets both redundant and onanistic. But I will be returning to regular updates now that my fourth novel, Humans and Demons and Elves, Oh My! has been accepted by Eternal Press. It will probably not be published until the summer, but I'm excited anyway.

Here's a blurb for it, just to get you going:

The Elves of North America use dimension-bending magic to conceal their woodland villages from humans, though it fails to protect them from the beautiful-but-deadly Eudemons. Edofine is less prejudiced than many, even befriending an Archaedemon, whose people are known for switching sides in the ancient conflict. But when young Edofine's clan is destroyed, he has only one person to turn to: his cousin Kryvek, who was adopted by humans who established the Official Magics-Humans Institute (OMHI). Will Edofine be able to adjust to human society? Can the OMHI help him despite facing its own crisis? Could he possibly be falling in love with Kryvek’s friend Lira, a half-Elf half-Eudemon working for the OMHI? His life has fallen to pieces, and the reconstruction is full of surprises.

I'm very excited, but I should probably go to bed now - more soon.