The Pale Rose – Chapter 19 + A Christmas Tale

December 1st. Only 23 more days to go.

Anyway, chapter 19 of The Pale Rose. Cheid gets things rolling and pays a visit to someone the clues sent him towards. I know the chapters have been a bit short as of late and so is this one, but there are some longer ones in the future.

The Pale Rose – Part Three

Since it’s the Christmas month, I figured I’d post a little Christmas themed story for you to enjoy. I hope you like it.

A Christmas Tale

Until next week.

The Pale Rose – Chapter 16

Hello.

Usual Sunday so here’s a new chapter for you to enjoy. We jump back into Eleria’s shoes and see what she’s up to after all the years that have passed. The politics of an empire are given a glimpse.

The Pale Rose – Part Three

On another note, I’m looking for a beta reader or two for a novel I have waiting. I’m not looking to get a line by line analysis, but the more you’d be willing to comment on it the better of course. More help for me to make it better. If you’re interested in doing this then send me a message and we’ll work things out how to get the file to you etc. I hope to have it ready for reading during next week.

Anyway, until next week.

The Pale Rose – Chapter 15

It’s not Sunday, but it is my birthday and what better way to celebrate than start the third part of The Pale Rose?

We jump ahead almost ten years so the story can continue from an interesting time. I hope the gap doesn’t pose a problem, but describing a decade worth of what is pretty basic stuff isn’t going to be interesting to anyone. Besides, the story is already quite beastly in length. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. The third part does kick off pretty nicely 🙂

Link: The Pale Rose – Part Three

Previous parts:

Part One

Part Two

Until next weekend.

The Pale Rose – Chapter 14

Hello.

It’s time for chapter 14 of The Pale Rose. With it ends Part Two of the story. I hope you’ve enjoyed it so far. It also puts us about half way through the story. So there’s still plenty left to go, over 170 pages worth. Anyway, here’s the usual link:

The Pale Rose – Part Two

I hope to start posting part three next weekend, so look forward to that 🙂

The Pale Rose – Chapter 13

Sunday the 13th and the 13th chapter of The Pale Rose. Let’s hope nothing bad happens 🙂

We jump back into the shoes of Eleria as she and her rescuers start making their way back home. There are things two years has changed about her and getting rid of the undesirable ones seems like a tall order for her. I hope you enjoy it.

The Pale Rose – Part Two

And with that, until next week.

The Pale Rose – Chapter 10 & What’s Up

So it has been a long time since I posted anything new. In the case of The Pale Rose it has been about three months, which is a fair bit of time. I’d like to say I decided to keep a summer vacation from posting, but that’s not really what happened. I simply got distracted.

I got an idea for a novel that I just couldn’t leave alone. I had to write it. So that’s what I did. Initially I wrote it at the same time as I continued on The Pale Rose, but towards the end I worked solely on that piece. I even started writing it with the thought I might try and get it published, but that’s an idea I’ve since given up on. Getting published just seems to involve a lot of work that I’m not willing to do. I’d rather spend my time writing stories instead of letters to agents and what have you.

In any case, the first novel of that idea is now done. At least the first draft is. At 78k words, it’s a decent start to what will be a trilogy and I’m going to say I think it’s some of the best writing I’ve done so far. It’s completely separate from the world of Balaria, something entirely new. I’m excited to share it with all of you once I get the thing edited to an acceptable level and maybe had someone beta read it. For now, I’ll just leave you with this teaser:

Alternate cover

Alternate cover

Now, about The Pale Rose. I’m just about done completing it and there are plenty of chapters to post. I just posted chapter 10 on here and that leaves me with 18 ready chapters to go. The plan is to go back to the chapter every Sunday schedule and I hope to keep that up. Now that I have the first bit of that obsession story out of me I’ll hopefully have time to do some short stories as well. Plenty of ideas floating around my head for those.

I’m sorry about the long silence, but at the same time I’m excited to get to posting again. I hope I haven’t lost all my readers to this break 🙂

So let’s just put some links at the end to remind you:

The Pale Rose – Part One

The Pale Rose – Part Two