I heard somewhere authors should throw out their first million words. Quite a punch to the gut. But as I near that number or perhaps even surpass it (I think I have, if I also count the screenplays and short films I wrote and all those freewrites since I was a teenager), I get it.

Some of my older books and short stories float to my current standard, and others do not, but in a way that’s part of their charm. Over the years I’ve considered revising a post-apocalyptic series, but I always hesitate. There’s something about being younger and putting forth that youth onto the page. If I revised it the writing itself would be better, yes, but also it would not because it would improve the irrationality of youth. The Molting needs to stay as it is as it also was therapeutic as I wrote through readjusting to civilian life after the Army.

And my time is better suited for new universes.

However, I figured out a minor loophole, an improvement to the series if you will. I wrote a novella in the Molterverse to my current satisfaction. Taking my time by inserting it into my revision schedule in my way of always having fresh eyes, I plan on publishing in 2025.

On the contrary there is a series of books I cannot resist improving, even though I published it before, and had audiobooks produced by the talented Mark Deakins. My worldbuilding on it has established permanent residence in my consciousness. It was the foundation of my first novel. 

The idea grew from going to the movies back in the 90s, and before one of those movies began, an animation for the theater. There were pillars, and tones of fantasy, and I thought it would be a great place for a swordfight. My fantasy series had a few titles over the years, like Deemuth, Vor War, and the Far End, but I finally discovered the ideal title for the series, one that encompasses what it is at its roots. I’m not ready to disclose it yet but I will soon.

I’ve been revising the books, for myself, and for anyone interested, and they’re finally to the point where I feel satisfied, that they are what they should have been all along.

It is my final go of it. I plan on republishing (with a new series title, improved writing, different names, and deeper worldbuilding) in the near future, for it has been impossible to keep the world of Vraniga only in my mind. It’s time to push the books out of the nest and off my to-do list and into the minds of interested readers.

Well, almost.