Hollow Isles Updates

God, it’s good being back in this world. I’m already a little over 30 pages into the tale, and so far a major villain has been maimed, a major character has vanished, Zack has had dealings with a certain pink stuffed bunny rabbit (gasp!), and Diana actually fights someone! This book is definitely off to one hell of a start!

Writing Commences on Book 3

That’s right, everyone. I’ve started some preliminary writing on the final installment of the Twilight Gardens trilogy.

The tentative front cover art for the darker second installment, Moonlight's Requiem.

The series, one of much frustration and joy for me since the latter part of ‘06, has been on a hiatus of sorts for nearly eight months now as I’ve gone back and gone through a rigorous editing process on the first two entries, Twilight Gardens and it’s much darker successor Moonlight’s Requiem. Now, with less than eighty pages left of editing the latter work, I’ve began the arduous task of re-entering the perilous world of Montgomery Ferguson and his friends as they face the final chapter of their story.

I haven’t fully devoted myself to the story as of yet though. I’m still working on some side projects. The main one at the moment is a short story entitled “Bed Bugs,” a tale about one family’s fight for survival against vicious killer ants… and when I say killer, I do mean it in every sense of the word!

My newest stories are definitely new editions in the story universe I’ve already established. That’s right: they also fall in the same mythology as the trilogy. Although the events are related and stand on their own as individual stories, locations and even characters are mentioned or seen in several of these tales. “Aborted” and “Memoria,” for instance, involve a shady apartment building called The Studio, which was mentioned in Moonlight’s Requiem at one point. “Bed Bugs” sees the return of one of the characters from “Memoria” in a supporting role sometime after the events of that story.

As for the Twilight Gardens series, many people don’t know what it is. For those individuals, let me give you a brief rundown. The story mainly follows Monty Ferguson, a seemingly ordinary young man who, as it turns out, has limited extrasensory abilities and the ability to slip into another world. This is not some alternate reality or other version of Earth, but a full-fledged world wholly separate from our own where the siblings he never had in our world are alive and well… and, in one case, very angry. Unbeknownst, he has attracted the attentions of an evil force that becomes bent on his destruction. In order to slowly rip his life apart around him, it manipulates four souls to become its messengers, and each of them represent a different trial for Monty and his circle of friends. As fate would have it, Monty’s role in these events is far beyond his own comprehension, but before long he will begin to discover a horrible truth… and may have to sacrifice far more than he bargained for in order to do what is right and necessary.

The tentative cover art for the third installment, Hollow Isles.

Of course, there is a love story in the tale involving Diana Llewellyn, the girl that got away, and as events unfold, Monty’s relationship with her affects the lives of him and his friends in ways no one would have been able to foresee.

And so the third book, Hollow Isles, is underway.

Introduction

Welcome to my new official page. I’ve been looking for a way to have a centralized location on the net for all things related to my budding career as a writer, so I thought this would be the easiest way to do so. I figured I would also be able to spread the word about me this way as well.

As time goes on, I’ll open the doors to my little world and give you glimpses at what lurks within. So stay tuned. There is much to come, and I’m just getting started.