PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 8, 2022

 Despite the fact I didn't post one between Honoring Banned Books Week and letting those interested know that Airship 27 needs artists, there HAS been progress on the writing front over the past month!

Due to researching because I've never been outside of the Continental United States in my life, I'm on Chapter 13 of SOLITAIRE 2: THE AGENDA and approaching 20,000+ words in the manuscript.

The title character is still in Cancun at the moment while events elsewhere will be adding to this thrilling action adventure soon.

NO SPOILERS!

Wish I could say more without spilling any beans, but I'm not about to activate any SPOILER ALERTS.

After all, Professor River Song isn't the only one who hates spoilers.

Anyway, I can tell you that the first SOLITAIRE novel DOES have a publisher😀, although it will probably be a 2023 release.

In any event, I better get back to writing now.

Take care.

STAY SAFE! 😷

And I'll see you around the Internet.

Lee Houston, Junior

9 October, 2022

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 8, 2016

So let's see now.

Over 11,000+ words.
Into Chapter 5 of HUGH MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE: BOOK 3.
HOWEVER... (don't you hate when that happens?)
The scene after the opening where Hugh confronts his attacker doesn't work for me.
Not that it's a bad scene, just that I'm uncertain of the timing, for it might be too soon, provided it should occur at all.
Hate to sound cryptic, but there's not really much more I can say right now without giving plot points away prematurely.
For now, I'll push the scene in question to the end of the manuscript, where some other notes and tidbits are sitting idle at the moment, and pick up where I left off on Chapter 5, right after Hugh versus his attacker.

Art by David Russell

Now, a situation like this isn't unheard of for an author.
There was a big sequence in HUGH MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE: CATCH A RISING STAR where, in the middle of everything else that was going on in that novel, Hugh helped Ca D'r catch a thief in the Galveza Hotel, but it got excised from the final manuscript between putting the word count over 70,000 and not really being germane to the story.
But it's sitting in a file waiting for it's turn.

Better get back to writing now.

Take care, and I'll see you around the Internet.

Lee Houston, Junior

9 October, 2016