We received word that power to our district (home and Eagle) will be cut off Friday from 11am to 6pm. Perhaps longer. Since the office will have no power for a day I've decided to unplug as well.
I'm going to take my laptop to a local restaurant, munch on bad food (as in food that is bad for me), drink an ungodly amount of soda, and crank out a story or two for the next edition of When Shadows Dream.
Okay, so it's not totally unplugging, but for me it's a great way to relax. Let the brain spin some off the wall yarns. In fact, I've got a few stories slated for the second book that I'm struggling to finish.
Memory Effect is about a guy with a perfect memory who happens to be a major head case. Probably because he murdered his grandmother when he was eight and has had the same dream every night for 34 years—but it's not about grandma. The story has been "stuck" for over a year since I'm having trouble with his ex-wife. We're not getting along right now.
A Full Eight Hours is about a society that has taken dreaming about work to a whole new level.
Allah at 35,000 is about a group of Islamic terrorists who hijack a plane, only to be fooled into surrendering by a large number of ventriloquists en route to a dummy convention.
And of course there's my sequel to the first story in the first book (By Faith). In the next version, instead of our hero dislodging a mountain by faith, it's a double amputee who only has faith enough for a one-legged miracle.
The second book in the series will be titled, When Shadows Dream: Midnight. I'm actually developing five books for the series: Twilight (published in 2005), Midnight, REM, Dawn, and First Light.
Since I've gotten myself to blogging about my latest book projects I might as well go all the way and tell you about the remaining publishing ventures for me for this year.
As I reported previously, my novel, City of Heaven releases in June. That book was eight years in development. I started writing it when I lived in Istanbul, and in fact, I completed the story during my Istanbul vacation last June. It took so long for a creep reason. I began the work in the summer of 2000. About half the book was done a year later when 9/11 happened. Then I put it down 'cuz the first part of the book read so much like 9/11 that it was kinda freaky. I only worked on it sporadically, very sporadically, until completion. I don't want to give anything else away other than to say that when you read the first chapter, you'll understand.
I'll be carrying copies of City of Heaven with me in the States next month to have available at speaking engagements and as gifts for supporters of Eagle TV. I'll also have a limited number of copies of Faith & Freedom. And yeah, I'll sign one for you if you want, but I'll feel really silly doing it.
After several weeks of work I completed the first draft of a new nonfiction title: Right View, Right Living, Right Life. The book is now in the review stage by a few foreign missionaries and Mongolian believers before moving to rewrite, rounds of editing, and translation. This is my first book written specifically for a Mongolian audience. The cover art for the book is being handled by Batna, a great local artist and member of our Steppe-by-Steppe team.
I'm hoping to complete the project in time for a local release early next year. An English version, however, should available by the fall.
And that's pretty much it. But some other ideas are wading around in my shallow pool I call a brain.
I'll blog at'cha on the other side of my powerless three-day weekend.
Chow.
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