Over the last month I have been reading the entire trilogy and finished Scourge on Wednesday night. I made some final edits and have now posted it to the website here:
http://www.jeff-wheeler.com/?page_id=58
I have had some great feedback so far (thank you Emily, Mel, Jenna, and Rachelle) and would like to hear what others think on the [...]
While looking on Google Images for a picture of Wells cathedral on a misty morning, I came across Stephen Spraggon’s website and blog. He is a photographer in Somerset, England, and has a marvelous eye for capturing color and light. He lives in the place where the Muirwood series has its setting, so it was inspiring [...]
I finished the final touches on The Scourge of Muirwood this week, wrapping up a trilogy that has been several years in the making. There is still much to do still – like re-reading the entire trilogy to see how it flows and blends, but having finished the series is a great relief. Some of [...]
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” (Eccl 1:9)
I’ve heard the cliche before (no new thing under the sun), but I experienced it recently working on Scourge. I was in the middle [...]
I am about 200 pages into SCOURGE right now and things are heating to a boil. I wish I had more time to write, but at least I have been able to keep pace with a chapter a week. Lately I have been mulling the technological transformation that is currently shaking up the publishing industry. [...]
It was interesting (or ironic) that I was going to write a blog posting today and happened across an article in the LA Times. Gotta love Google News feeds.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-endurability7-2010feb07,0,4119789.story
What struck me about the article is how broken the publishing system is today. It has not transformed fully yet and the processes of submitting to agents, [...]
It was a treat in mid-November to visit H. Clarke Powers school in Loomis, CA. I was invited to be the guest author to a group of kids who had read all the required reading in their classes. There were about forty to fifty kids there and I read them an excerpt from Wishing Lantern, [...]
Releasing a book into the hands of readers can be exciting as well as anxiety-producing. I love getting feedback, positive and negative, because it helps my become a better writer. While writing BLIGHT, I was getting regular feedback from my sister and my niece during the process. Now that I’m done, I have started to [...]
October 1, 2009 – finished the first draft of Blight of Muirwood. Right now, it’s around 450 pages, so longer than the first book and I’m heaving a sigh of relief for being done. Last weekend my wife read it all and we’ve had some good discussions about it. I need to read it again [...]
I am almost finished writing BLIGHT. Only a few chapters left. It’s always an exciting thing to finish a novel. My guess is I’ll be done before Halloween and then will be looking for some readers to help critique and edit it (you know who you are…Mike Loos). This novel has definitely taken some unexpected [...]