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Hi Ascenders,
It’s been a while since I sent wrote an AUTHOR UPDATE. A lot has happened so I thought I should take a moment to catch you up and loop you in on some of the things that have been evolving behind the scenes.
As you may already know, two years ago I was diagnosed with adrenal fatigue.
Luckily it doesn’t cause real problems – I’m just limited in terms of energy and brain power… which just happen to be the two things you need to crank out a few thousand words of story each day.
And to log into Facebook.
And to write emails to the people you adore…
That’s why it’s been a while.
Brittany, my rock star assistant, has been helpful in sending out mails and making sure that Oz’s communications get through okay… but churning out a book a month was just a bridge too far.
That said, there is some cool — BOOK RELATED! — stuff I wanted to share with you.
More on that in a moment.
During this recovery phase of what I probably should be calling Downtime — which I’ve really been calling Transformation time(!) — I’ve been returning to some of the deeper questions in life.
Maybe you’ve been there at times in your life too?
Times when you wonder what the point is… not in a depressed way, but in a strategic way. I’ve been asking, what is the end game?
How do we live our best lives?
What is the yardstick we should measure our decisions against…?
And other such things.
I read a bunch of books (which didn’t really yield any answers) but did prompt a number of new developments in my thinking on the subject…
I’ve also been driving my friends crazy.
Apparently, this isn’t something that most people are interested in contemplating.
On that note, I’ll save the finer details of these musing for a Patreon post!
In the meantime, I just wanted to touch base and remind you I’m still here.
I’ve not been publishing at the same rate, but I have been percolating on things in the background.
There is no doubt a limit to how much one person can output consistently without burning out. Some people are born writers. Some people would write stories just because they have to “get them out”.
That’s not me.
I write to share ideas, wrapped in entertainment.
Bentley was one such project.
She was SUPER fun to work on.
If you’ve read the Bentley series (officially known on Amazon as The Sword-Mage Chronicles) you’ll know it’s sci fi/ space opera, but it’s laced with concepts about the organization of the two worlds: the seen, and the unseen.
I love these kinds of stories because there is so much to play with: the nature of good and evil, and the messy gray bit in the middle, the nature of reality, the possibility of other worlds beyond the veil, which establish themselves as lore on this side of the veil…
Although we’re following the misadventures of Bentley (a chick with a mysterious past, and some mad sword skills), she lands herself in with a motley crew of ex-gods, slap-dab in the middle of a fight between the seen and the unseen world.
Okay, maybe I’m giving too much away now.
I should just let you read it.
There are currently 7 books out — all for your binging pleasure!
The first book is somewhat longer than the others: plenty to get you into the world, and feeling the characters.
I’m going to be in touch again soon to let you know what else is going on behind the veil here in the Ellieverse.
I’ve got some changes manifesting — a by-product of having taken some “downtime” and I want to give you the lo-down as things develop.
I’m not saying I’m back-back… because I’m jacked up on three four cups of coffee as I write this — and I’ve had to learn not to commit to things when I’m caffeinated… Ha! However, I think things have turned a corner and I’m going to be back in the saddle a bit more than recently.
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Ell Leigh (caffeinated) Clarke
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