Kenn Ghannon: Blog

For those of you keeping track in our home edition, I've just submitted Chapter 04: Best Laid Plans of Pretty CAPable for publishing. It should show up shortly - maybe even before I finish writing this blog entry.

One of the frequently asked questions revolves around publishing at a faster pace or publishing the story all at once. Although - as I've said all along - the story is finished, I am not going to publish it all at once or any faster than I do now. Believe me when I say that there is a part of me that wants to publish it faster - I want to give you instant gratification - but I won't.

I have a follow-up story in process to this story. My sincere hope is that by the time Pretty CAPable is finished, I will have finished the follow-up and can continue pushing a chapter a week or, at worst, maybe take a week or a month between publishing the final chapter of Pretty CAPable (which will be chapter 15 for those in our viewing audience), and starting the follow on.

I sincerely hope that everyone is enjoying the story. I also hope that you can have some patience with my chapter a week cycle. At least it's not a chapter a year (yeah, I'm talking about you Cold Creek and your follow-up to The Defenceman and you, too, Robberhands and your A Break from Destiny series - I've been waiting, quite patiently I might add, for updates on those stellar stories for forever now...), right? :)

I've just posted the Author's Note and Chapter 01: Espanto for a new story I've been working on in Thinking Horndog's Swarm Cycle universe. The story itself is complete and comes in at 15 chapters and a bit over 150,000 words. My plan is to post one Chapter per week, usually on the weekends (though I won't firmly commit to Saturday or Sunday); I had to post on Monday this week for technical reasons. I hope you enjoy it.

Some few of you might have noticed that I've quietly added Chapter 10 of the 'Ring of Command' story. I never intended for that story to go so long without an update but...sometimes things happen in life that take you in a direction you never wanted to go.

First, I'd like to apologize to all the people who've written to me in the past...oh, let's call it a year or so...and whom I've never answered. I won't minimize my culpability with excuses - I just haven't been writing. Anything. At all.

My muse has been active but I've been ignoring her (yes, my muse is female; you think I'd take advice from a guy?). Selfish, maybe, but...well, I won't bore you. Suffice it to say that I've been alive but not writing; reading A LOT but...I've just had no drive to write much.

I'm hoping to change that but, I'll warn you now, it's an up-hill battle. The chapter I posted is one of several that were a buffer for me; I've not written anything new here (though I have been *trying* recently) in over a year. I've got 2 more 'buffer' chapters I've started but I'm hoping that reading the story will charge me up to finish this. Let us pray... :)

Thank you for your attention.

This will be brief. I've been seriously ill which has hindered my writing ability...but I'm still alive and should be back to writing shortly.

Well, it's good news for me but potentially bad news for you, my dear readers.

My work is sending me out of the country for the next 6-10 weeks. I'll have only sporadic access to internet...and then, it won't be much of a signal. This means that I'll have time to write (since I'll be away from my family) but I really won't have time to post (at least, not very often). Hopefully, this means I'll get one or more of my stories completed so I can upload them in full when I return.

In the mean time, I'm going to try to get another chapter of "Ring" out to you on Saturday, before I leave. Hope you and yours have a great couple of months!