Celtic Bard: Blog

Since posting House of Samuelson, I have gotten some feedback that made me change the voting on the non-story as well as changing the description. Apparently it irked some that it was not a story despite the fact that if you read the description and the end note it indicated that this is not really a story but more a very long appendix to the Xeuxondra Universe. There are stories within some of the clan headings, but it is not a coherent, put-together story in the traditional sense. That is why I described it as a history.
So, the voting option has been removed for House of Samuelson and a very plain warning that it THIS NOT A STORY! placed in the description. Since some people did find it interesting, I will leave it up for those who care to look it over. For those upset that I wasted your time and energy with it, my apologies but I am apparently not alone in finding such things fascinating.

As the title suggests, I have submitted something new in the Xeuxondra Universe. It is something that gives background to the family that Josef Samuelson from A Stranger in an Even Stranger Land winds up joining in Reign of Madness, my first published novel. I have, for a while now, thought about writing some of the short stories that this work (House of Samuelson) naturally suggests and those may be forthcoming in the next few months, my muse and other work and real life permitting. I have always found this sort of thing interesting when other authors make it available and, given some of the response to An Abridged History of the Order, I am not alone in that. So enjoy and mind the end note for a more complete explanation.

Chapter 6 of Anomaly of the Fates has been submitted and should be up soon. I have also resubmitted the other five chapters and the Prologue because I have cleaned up some of the things I saw when rereading those chapters over the last week or so. Nothing major has been changed, but they were changed so they needed to be reposted. I am also working on some of the background info for the Xeuxondra Universe probably to be posted either on the new year or shortly after. I am hoping it won't take that long, but it is a large file and it may take longer than I hoped. After that, I am hoping to have The Arrogance of Empire finished soon, a short story in a new Universe I am tentatively titling Pan-Deia. When I get that posted (possibly along with some of that new universe's background info) I will be getting back to Future Distorted and the sequel to Enter the Darkness, In the Darkness Falling.

So that is the news. Hope everyone had a good and safe Christmas and have a safe and Happy New Year!

As the title suggests, Chapter Five of Anomaly of the Fates has been submitted. It should be up sometime tonight or tomorrow depending on the Webmaster. It being the holidays, it might be a little longer than normal. I wanted to get this up over the weekend but I did not realize how much I had written. I wound up breaking it up into two chapters, Chapter Six will probably follow sometime in the next week or so after I type it into the computer. This chapter is a little on the spicy side as a new character is introduced. Hope you enjoy it.

I also want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in case I don't get back on here before then. Everyone enjoy the holidays and stay safe. See you in the new year.

All right, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news first. The next chapter of Anomaly of the Fates is finished. The bad news is that it is hand-written and so it will take a few days to transcribe the chicken-scratch onto the computer. Tomorrow is the last day of work until the new year, so I will have plenty of time to commune with the computer over the holiday break. I hope this to mean that the new chapter will be up by the weekend; that is my goal, at least.

I have a few other things I am hoping to also get up on the site over the break, including something related to my Samuelson novels and the short stories in the Xeuxondra Universe posted here. It is something in the nature of copious background I wrote for my own use in writing the novels that I have decided to post, but it may take some time to get that ready. Other stuff will probably be ready before then, including a new short story (The Arrogance of Empire) in a new universe. I have background stuff for that too that I may post; glossaries, geography, religions, histories, and stuff like that. It is all for a new novel-length story (The Shattering of Faith) I started a while back with intention of posting it here.

So that is what I have been slaving over the past few weeks/months for you ladies and gents. So look for that by the end of the month and into the new year.