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Jeffrey Quyle
Brian, thank you for writing, and for enjoying the books enough to care! There are one or two books more of that story waiting to be written. I've got part of the plot in mind already. I hope to finish writing my current Wind Word series by the end of 2018, so it will be 2019 before I return to Theus and his world. Please be patient!
Jeffrey Quyle
Hi Runyan, great question, and a little out of my control at the end moment. I was invited by Podium Publishing to have the Memory Stone series recorded. If they - or others - have interest in converting other series to audio I'd love to share those with audio listeners as well. The whole audio files process is still new to me. Thank you for asking! I'm glad you enjoyed Theus's adventure.
Jeffrey Quyle
Hi Chris,
I appreciate you reading the Memory Stone series, and I hope you enjoyed it. With that series finished (for now), I'm working on the start of a new series about people who have the ability to cast their words over very long distances, in a world without modern technology.
Having said that, the writing is slower than it was for the Memory Stone books, and I don't expect to have anything to publish before March. There are many good works by other writers out there, and I hope you enjoy them in the meantime, or consider looking back at some of my older series of books, such as the Inner Seas Kingdom series about Kestrel.
Best wishes,
Jeff
I appreciate you reading the Memory Stone series, and I hope you enjoyed it. With that series finished (for now), I'm working on the start of a new series about people who have the ability to cast their words over very long distances, in a world without modern technology.
Having said that, the writing is slower than it was for the Memory Stone books, and I don't expect to have anything to publish before March. There are many good works by other writers out there, and I hope you enjoy them in the meantime, or consider looking back at some of my older series of books, such as the Inner Seas Kingdom series about Kestrel.
Best wishes,
Jeff
Jeffrey Quyle
After reading Patrick O'Brian and Jane Austen so much, I think I'd like to visit London during the era of the Napoleonic War, to see the formality and manners that would be on display in public settings!
Jeffrey Quyle
My current series, the Memory Stones, actually started when I wondered if there was something to try writing in the fantasy genre that would provide an analogy to our use of smart phones. We're all so dependent on them!
I hit on the idea of the memory stones to fill that plot point. As anyone who has read the series knows, I haven't stuck very closely to that focal point since the first novel in the series - the characters and the plot have wandered away from the use of the stones, though they occasionally do make an appearance in a perfunctory fashion.
I hit on the idea of the memory stones to fill that plot point. As anyone who has read the series knows, I haven't stuck very closely to that focal point since the first novel in the series - the characters and the plot have wandered away from the use of the stones, though they occasionally do make an appearance in a perfunctory fashion.
Jeffrey Quyle
Good morning (my time zone) Phyllis,
Thank you for enjoying the Memory Stone series so far! It's been fun to write.
I am working on the first draft of the Tangled Engagements manuscript this morning (as I do almost every morning, before going to work), and it's coming along relatively well. I think this draft will finish in early September - possibly late August if I catch some breaks.
That means that I could rush through revisions and editing during early and mid-September, then send to my proofreader. In a best case, I think it will be mid-to-late September for release of the book on Kindle. (If I could provide it any faster, I would!)
Stay tuned!
If you haven't read the Inner Seas Kingdom series I wrote a couple of years ago, you might try that as something to fill the gap. It was relatively popular, though not as popular as the Memory Stones books have been.
Feel free to check in again in a few weeks - maybe the timeline will improve!
Have a good day, and have a good weekend,
Jeff
Thank you for enjoying the Memory Stone series so far! It's been fun to write.
I am working on the first draft of the Tangled Engagements manuscript this morning (as I do almost every morning, before going to work), and it's coming along relatively well. I think this draft will finish in early September - possibly late August if I catch some breaks.
That means that I could rush through revisions and editing during early and mid-September, then send to my proofreader. In a best case, I think it will be mid-to-late September for release of the book on Kindle. (If I could provide it any faster, I would!)
Stay tuned!
If you haven't read the Inner Seas Kingdom series I wrote a couple of years ago, you might try that as something to fill the gap. It was relatively popular, though not as popular as the Memory Stones books have been.
Feel free to check in again in a few weeks - maybe the timeline will improve!
Have a good day, and have a good weekend,
Jeff
Jeffrey Quyle
The first couple that came to mind were Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, from Patrick O'Brian's brilliant historical fiction series about the British navy in the Napoleonic War era. The 'bromance' that these two share over the course of many volumes and many fictional years covers the range of emotions from love and affection and deep concern and well-intentioned meddling to anger, jealousy, and disappointment. The writing of the novels is brilliant, the language powerful, and the realism of the plots is so informative of the days when navies sailed by wind and cunning.
Jeffrey Quyle
Well, that's an interesting question! Actually, there's a bit of something like that in the current last book of the Grange/Southern Continent Series that I'm finishing writing now. I think my next work will be to revisit Alec and the Ingenairii, so another Kestrel book is farther out in the future - and while I have some plot ideas, I hadn't considered godhead for our part-elf hero. I'm not sure Kestrel can really be a god, at least not with all the dignity that such a powerful position would be entitled to - the imps and sprites would never take him seriously, and would always be offering sly observations that would deflate his ego quickly! You've got me pondering now...we'll see where this goes. Thanks for asking, and have a good day!
Jeffrey Quyle
Brandon, I'll give you the caveat that ever writer is different, because we all imagine and think and process ideas a little differently. Having said that, I find that when I have an idea, I like to put it on paper, just to preserve it and allow it to be the acorn that the story can grow from. It doesn't have to have grammar or punctuation or spelling at all in that first recording. And then I let it flow - where ever it seems to want to go. Few of my stories ever follow the plot intentions I start with, but having the original idea gives them a starting point.
If your 'few ideas' are concepts for different stories, write them down separately and then tackle them according to which seems most inspiring to you and most manageable for you.
If your ideas are all parts of one plot, put them all on paper (or probably type them on the screen), then start writing from the first one, aiming to take the story towards the second plot point. The story may not get there, but that is hopefully because it has organically come to life and is leading you in the direction that it is destined to go.
Good luck!
If your 'few ideas' are concepts for different stories, write them down separately and then tackle them according to which seems most inspiring to you and most manageable for you.
If your ideas are all parts of one plot, put them all on paper (or probably type them on the screen), then start writing from the first one, aiming to take the story towards the second plot point. The story may not get there, but that is hopefully because it has organically come to life and is leading you in the direction that it is destined to go.
Good luck!
Jeffrey Quyle
Now that "The Guided Journey" has kiccked off a new series of books about Kestrel and his various companions, I'm working on the sequel to "Guided Journey". This manuscript is currently going by the uninspiring name of "Kestrel 7" in the early stages of writing, but within a few weeks or so I expect I'll have enough of a feel of the story to move to a more likely title. My guess is that this work will be published prior to Thanksgiving.
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