I'm a fairly private person, and in general, I don't really like to talk about myself. Instead, I like to let my work speak for me. However, I feel like I have an obligation to let everyone know why there haven't been any updates on the second volume of the Heartkeeper series. I can only say that I apologize for it taking this long.
The fact of the matter is that my mind has been occupied by a bout with leukemia. I don't want to go into too much depth as to my disease, but I will say that as of a few weeks ago, I'm officially in remission. And with that, my mind was freed to focus on writing. So that's what I'm doing. I won't say anything else about that, because I want to focus on what the lay in the future.
The second book is really coming along nicely. I finished the outline a couple of weeks ago, which is a lot more work than you might think. It's the backbone of the story, the map I'm going to follow for each individual scene (I think it ended up being about forty or so pages). Over the next week or so, I'm going to be fleshing out the world and tertiary characters' back stories.
I think that, in a week or two, I'm going to be posting a map of the world. Originally, I intended it to appear in the book, but as it was an e-book, there were formatting problems. Whatever the case, I'll have it up here soon.
In any case, the point of this post is to let you all know that I'm actively working on the next volume. I can say that the next volume will be quite a bit larger in scope than the first, and the third volume will be even bigger. So hopefully you all will remain fans, and buy the next one when it comes out.
I'll be a little more diligent with this blog in the future.
