Paige Hawthorne: Blog

The next Winter Jennings saga - "Winter's Chase" - is in the editorial pipeline.

Caveat: The pace is not to the swift. Thorny, Steven, and Mike - poor dears - well, their lips get so tired. And, when editors are discombobulated by words of more than two syllables, well, dictionaries become worn out, don't they?

To the editors' credit, they have fast-tracked "Chase". (It's been in their hands for only two years. Two-plus years. So far.)

Posting schedule? 2020 is a definite possibility. Well, perhaps not definite.

Paige

Okay, my first editor had to be institutionalized and was unable to toil on "Winter's Risk". He is currently MIA.

The other two … well, in fairness to them, "Risk" was the longest story yet. One editor is much improved after his daily Ketamine dosage was adjusted. The prospects for the third editor have brightened and his family holds out hope for at least a partial recovery.

Paige

The last chapter - # 16 - of "Winter's Risk" has been written, edited, submitted, and, probably through site-incompetence, posted here.

I realize that many of you Winter-haters wait until a story is complete before unloading on it … well, now's your time. Sharpen those pitchfork tines, simmer the pine tar, rip open those feather pillows.

I only regret that I have but one chapter to give for my story.

Paige

You've waited, salivating, runner's spikes in the blocks, butt up, aching for the starting pistol … I've imagined a couple of you boys frothing, but that's poetic license of course. Maybe.

Ready … set … BANG! Voting on "Winter's Risk" is now open. Now's your time to vent, to unleash all that repressed Winter-fury.

I can take it. Probably.

Paige

Better half-staff those flags, boys. A new Winter Jennings story is completed and the first chapter has already slunk its way past the mods.

Sorry, haters. Adding insult to insult, "Winter's Risk" is the longest story yet in this silly little endeavor. Around 80,000 words according to some thing on my thing that mysteriously keeps track of … um, things.

But look at the sunny side - there's more to execrate!

Paige