CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

 Not a lot of words, yesterday. I was planning on a minimum day of 4,000, but completely forgot I had maintenance booked for the air-conditioner - and then I misjudged how long updating a series bible could take, especially when  you've forgotten to do it for a while. That last is a pretty important task for me, as I roll from one book to the next as it helps me track where the characters came from, and other important things like hair color, siblings, locations and their significance, and the other bits that make the world go round, which means I'm not spending hours writing searching previous books to make sure I get it right. The series bible should be updated daily as I write, failing that, once a month. This one was over by two, and will take a chunk out of today, as well - but not yet. Yesterday, when it got to close to the end of my day, I set that task aside and made sure I put down at least a thousand words before bed. Here are the details from that. Starting Words: 1...

 Some of you might be familiar with my short work - and some of you may not, but I've been gathering my short stories, poems and flash into themed collections, and slowly getting them ready for release. The first of these will be A Collection of Dragons , which will be released later in the year. It's complete and is queued for a final edit and formatting. In the meantime, its cover has arrived, this one designed by Jake at JCaleb Design.  

With the completion of the first novel in the Lunar Wolves series, The Unwilling , I've started work on the second novel in the series, The Unwanted . In other news, the cover for The Unwilling has arrived and you can see it below. It was created by Jake at JCaleb Design , and I'm looking forward to seeing what he comes up with for this book. The other covers are by Mihaela Voicu (on the left), and Moonchild Ljilja at Fantasybookdesign (on the right). So, without further ado: Starting Words: 7,229 Finishing Words: 13,329 Words Written: 6,100 Other Words: 0 Other Project/Project Aspects Advanced: 2 Excerpt: In which Oliver learns that he and Lewis may have leapt from the frying pan into the fire: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- His beta shot him a resigned look and then tried to turn away as the first strike fell. Oliver’s wolf rose and, this time, he welcomed it. He roared di...

 Now that all the individual titles in the Mack 'n' Me 'n' Odyssey series are available for purchase or pre-order, I'm concentrating on getting the omnibus collections out for those of you who like to pick up your series in sections or all at once. There will be three collections: one for Books 1-3 ( Origins, Blaedergil's Host, and Arach ) , one for Books 4-6 ( The Transporter's Favor, Wolves of Alpha 9, and Diplomacy 101 ), and one containing all 6 books. While the first two collections will be available in ebook form on all platforms, I'm still deciding whether this will be the case for the 6-book collection, which may be available on all platforms except Amazon, due to some of the restrictions in place there. I need to think on that some more. This First Collection - What's Changed? The first collection, Mack 'n' Me: Odyssey Omnibus #1 , gathers the first three titles - Origins, Blaedergil's Host, and Arach - under one title , a...