October Contest Winners!

October's Contest Winners are Evie McDonald, Julian Avery, and Hector who asked that his last name not be used. He requested a specific type of role. When you eventually see the character in Finding Closure I think you'll understand.

There will be a new contest in January for your name to be used as a character in a book. There are four under development at the moment, so the opportunities are vast. If you want your name used in one of my books as a character, please send an e-mail to marktreble@earthlink.net and include the word Contest in the subject.

If you have a specific character type you want to be associated with your name, please let me know that as well. I make no promises, but will come as close as I can.

Working

Just back from a nine day Caribbean cruise with my wife. Did a great deal of writing on sea days.

Did You Ever SeeAllegro is coming along. Need time out from cancer treatments to get it really underway.

The Finding Series is close to finished in first draft. I want to complete all three volumes before sending anything into editing because it's a single story. As a single volume it would approach two hundred thousand words, or about eight hundred pages. Way too much.

Taunting is coming together. I've gotten three sanity reads by other authors and am taking their comments seriously. I'm about halfway through fixing the problems they identified. Look for it on Amazon Kindle Store in January 2016.

Release sequence changed

Both Taunting, Volume One of The Flint Files, and The Trip to Helen Gawne, Volume One of the Gulfside City Series, went into different editing channels at the same time. It was always intended to publish The Trip to Helen Gawne first, but Taunting won the race.

Taunting, the mystery, came back from editing with the usual blood all over the copy. It will take me perhaps two to three weeks to fix the issues, and I hope to publish Taunting by the beginning of January

The editor for The Trip to Helen Gawne has hit a personal health hiccup. He's simply too good to replace, so I expect we'll see the comedy published in February or March of next year.

Did You Ever See Allegro?

Name of a fictional band from 1969. Bunch of college musicians form a band. It was fun, it was good, it was unsuccessful. Working on the concept for a short story, to be free on Amazon Kindle.

Been gone a while

I spent weeks focused on recapturing the arc of the Finding series. Got it back finally. In order to get the story on track to ride the arc I had to have a cow fall on Luke. Strange as it sounds, I think it actually works.

Emgee is now whispering parts of the (b)romance to me at night. Silly puppy, who does he think he is anyway? He has his own books to write.

In other news, The Head Game is starting to come together, and The Trip to Helen Gawne comes back from the editor tomorrow. If my Canadian editor doesn't like it one of us must die.

Emgee Adopts a Pet

The Emgee series is a free companion set to the Finding series. It is written by a mixed Jack Russell Terrier/Beagle. Emgee meets Suit-smell man and soon finds that he is forced to adopt the strange people person. Emgee is scared. He's just a puppy himself and is not ready to be responsible for a pet.

What will he feed him? How will he take care of him if he gets sick? How will he train him? Suit-smell man obviously needs a lot of work. Emgee found what is self-evidently Suit-smell man's drinking bowl and then discovers that Suit-smell man pees in it. Ugh!!

Paint-smell man must be Suit-smell man's Mommy. He has to teach Suit-smell man the most basic things about how to deal with a dog. But Paint-smell man won't let Suit-smell man feed on his teats (which, frankly, aren't that impressive anyway). Since Emgee's new pet already has a Mommy, why is he Emgee's responsibility.

Things are really weird. When he's with other people persons Suit-smell man exudes an unmistakable odor: Leader of the Pack. A puppy is the pack leader but still has a Mommy and needs an owner. Life is confusing for Emgee.

The Global Conspiracy

Life Struggles introduced a global conspiracy to harvest rare blood antigens to use as weapons. A reader has suggested I continue the conspiracy story apart from the Life Stories series in which it first arose.

Suggestions? Thoughts?