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I'll be posting my crime thriller, Conclave.

Note that it has short chapters, so I will be posting two chapters per week. One on Saturday and the next on Wednesday.

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G Younger
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Memorial Day weekend of 2014 (last weekend in May) I sat down and decided to start writing. What started out as a short story about David and Tami turned out to be a hot mess.

First, I had never written anything that wasn't business-related. So my style was very formal. Second I thought I could edit my own work. To this day, I am amazed that the story was received as well as it was.

That three-day weekend I wrote over a hundred pages. I'd found SOL and read a few of the stories. Many you will find in my favorite's list. My goal was to post a few chapters and see if anyone liked it, or if I was wasting my time.

I was shocked at the positive feedback. Probably the most helpful was from Rev. Cotton Mather who both encouraged me and pointed me to the volunteer editors.

Like I said, Stupid Boy was supposed to be a short story. I planned to use it to help me learn to write. My ultimate goal was to write a story called Star Academy that I'd been slowly outlining for a few years. But I knew I wasn't ready to tackle it yet.

What followed was Stupid Boy just kept growing and next week will be the last chapter of this series.

I want to thank everyone involved in creating and all the readers that have enjoyed the story.

So, what's next.

I have already written the next book in the David story and intend to get him through college. The series is called A Better Man.

As you can imagine, at some point I needed a break from David and friends. Since ending the ABM1, I've written a couple of other books. You will see the first one, Conclave, begin to post in March or April. It is an action/adventure story about a fish out of water.

Note that ABM1 will begin posting after I've posted Conclave.

Currently, I am writing The Third Son. It is a sword/sorcerer book. Growing up I mostly read fantasy and sci-fi. When that is done it is back to ABM2. The goal is to have it ready as an Advanced Ready Copy by the end of the year.

Thanks for reading and all the feedback. If not for SOL and its readers I would not have improved my craft.

G Younger

Conclave is a humorous fish out of water story with action, crime, and mystery mixed in for good measure. I'll start posting it in SOL after the last Stupid Boy book is done in early January.

Getting it Wrong is a rewrite of the original do-over story that I pulled off of SOL. There were two problems with the original. The first being it was chock-full of editing issues. The second was I felt it had gotten political in the end, so I changed the last third of the book. It also gives me a clear idea of how to write the next two in the series.

Both books are available on my website. Getting it Wrong is FREE.

G Younger
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I wanted to thank everyone for voting this the winner in this year's Haloween writing contest.

G Younger

I just sent my most recent book to the editors - Conclave. I should have an advanced reader version ready in a few weeks and I will start posting it on SOL a couple of weeks after Senior Year III finishes posting in early January.

Since the chapters are shorter, I will post two per week. This is a full-length novel that came in just over 110K words.

It is a story about a fish out of water, as a young man is forced to move from the big city to a small town in Oklahoma. It is more of an action/adventure/mystery type of story, something new for me.

I don't plan to start writing A Better Man 2 until after the first of the year. By then I will be ready to tackle David and the gang again.

In the meantime, I'll either fix my do-over story or write some smut. While I write ABM2 I am thinking I'll also be writing the second Conclave book.

The goal is to have ABM2 done by about this time next year. The ideal would be sooner, but this is for fun, not a J.O.B.

Thanks for all your support. Be safe.

G Younger