T.M. Hunter's Blog

Well, things didn't go so well through 2023. Working to get some things done in 2024. Here are my goals:1. Complete the first draft of my fifth Aston West series novel, Before the Dawn. I am currently at about 35K words. I have a good idea of the path I want the story to take, so now it's just a matter of getting the writing done. However, this will likely take a back seat to my Demonkiller

Well, sometimes life gets in the way, and 2023 was one of those years. My father passed away in June, and that same weekend started my new (second) job as an Associate Pastor for a local church after nearly 23 years at our former church as a layperson. This involves a lot of classwork as I work toward ordination in our denomination, reading textbooks, writing papers and such. But due to other

Well, things were going well, writing-wise, through most of 2022. Hoping to get some more momentum going on these, so here are my goals for 2023:1. Complete the first draft of my fifth Aston West series novel, Before the Dawn. I am currently at about 30K words. I have a good idea of the path I want the story to take, so now it's just a matter of getting the writing done.2. Complete the first

Well, 2022 was a fairly productive year, although with two novels in work, not a lot was completely finished. Combine that with work stresses and several items around the house that needed to be addressed, it was good that I could get some work accomplished on the goals that I did. Here's the recap for how things went against my 2022 goals.1. Complete the first draft of my fifth Aston West

 It has been a great long while since I've posted, and even then, most of those had been my regular writing goals posts (end of the year posts are coming soon). But I'm happy to announce that my latest Aston short story "Turnabout" will be published soon in a magazine. It has been over a decade (11-12 years?) since my last official magazine publication, so pretty excited about that. Will let

Well, I neglected to put out a set of goals in 2021, and almost did the same here in 2022. I guess it's only a month late (not making excuses, but the past month or so has been a train wreck, health-wise). Here they are:1. Complete the first draft of my fifth Aston West series novel, Before the Dawn. I have several chapters written on this one, so I am expecting to finish this goal. That said, I

As I came back to my blog, I realized that I never did set up goals for 2021, but since I didn't do much in 2020 anyway, I'll just base my review on my 2020 goals. Hopefully I will come back and set up a new post for my 2022 goals before long.1. Publish my fifth Aston West series novel, Before the Dawn. Still didn't do much on this novel, but I have started to work on getting some momentum

With recent national events, it seemed as good a time as any to dust off an old excerpt from my short story "Shell Games" for your perusal. Want to check out the full story? Catch it as part of the Dead or Alive collection from ResAliens Press!The hatch slammed shut before I’d even finished,leaving me no choice besides pushing my way through the thickening crowd.Sadly, they had no manners and

Well, as you can imagine, 2020 was pretty dismal all around, and writing goals were no exception. I did end up getting a lot of final edits finished on my Demonkiller novel just today, so here's hoping that I can keep the momentum going into the new year. Here's the recap for how things went against my 2020 goals. A follow-up post for my 2021 goals will be coming soon.

1. Publish my fifth Aston

Sorry for the long delay in posting...this year has been a bit of a mess.Although most of you know me through my Aston West novels and novellas
(through other threads around here), and the short stories I have in a
couple of collections, I do write other material. Finished up another collection of stories recently, set in
the same universe, but focused on a different character who made an