Altredes: One [serial novel]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nI’ve taken out a couple of stories, added one, and yet I still feel as if there’s something missing. Some key element that will tie things together.<\/p>\n
I’d rather hold off a few days or weeks and make something I love versus rushing. (I’ve already got a few that I’m reworking. I don’t want this to be another one.)<\/p>\n
– I have been building up my universe. I’ve been writing notes on all the different events taking place to make the Worlds develop as they do. I’ve written brief outlines for a bunch of stories already.<\/p>\n
Of Blood<\/b> => The aliens attacking are the Hex. They are led by a rebel MaretHex (Lord) that fled exile to take over a primitive world. He has his thousands of followers and their ships. They conquer Earth.<\/p>\n
The human resistance keeps fighting against the occupiers even while society moves on. Vampires and Others decide that to save their world they’ll have to reveal themselves to the humans. They join the war to reclaim Earth.<\/p>\n
The battle commences and it is bloody and violent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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– Shorts and Squares: Jagged Blade was supposed to be out on the 14th, but I went back to fiddling with it and screwed it up. There’s a reason I don’t give hard self-pub release days. I’m terrible at being able to let it go.<\/p>\n