Red Rain, Part Two

The second Red Rain books is out now. If you haven't bought it, go do that before continuing. Daddy has to pay rent.

When I finished Nemesis, I read the ending and thought, fuck, that's good. My evolution as a writer seems to be increasing in speed, because regardless how good I thought/think Nemesis Six is, Red Rain surpasses it.

This story goes a bit more down the horror route, letting go of the sci-fi, but it's the most personal thing I've ever written. More so than even The Devil's Dream. 

It's about a serial killer, but not so much who he kills. It focuses on his actions and their effects on him mentally and those around him. If The Devil's Dream asks can a man destroy the world? Red Rain asks can a man destroy himself?

Enough with my drivel. Go buy my other drivel. For Daddy.

The first one is here: Amazon.

The new release is here: Amazon

The Singularity Rising

I finished The Singularity in 2015.

The ending was solid in my not-so-humble opinion. At the end of the book, I said I didn't want to make the decision for anyone; I wanted them to think about what they would do.

That's a half-truth.

I did want the reader to decide Caesar's choice, but I also wasn't completely sure what Caeasar would do. I thought I knew, but I wasn't sure, and more--that choice would have far ranging impacts.

A little while ago, Caesar started speaking to me again. His story wasn't finished and the underlying question of free will still tugged at me. I know the answer that I wanted to give, but I needed to understand Caesar first.

So, with the answer finally figured out, I've begun The Singularity Rising. It's a three book series, around 200+ pages per book. I'm working on the third now, and I think the end is going to be powerful for anyone who read The Singularity.

It certainly will be for me.

Probably Shouldn't Have Written The Singularity

I'm about 90% positive that when I go wide with The Singularity (meaning, I start putting money behind the books in marketing), negative reviews are going to pour in. I kind of considered this when I started writing it, but didn't care. 

The book is dark, much darker than The Devil's Dream--and that's saying something. The Devil's Dream, at its core, was a story about love and maybe redemption. The Singularity, at its core, focuses on one question: does humanity deserve free will? It's not a new question by any means, and if I add anything to the discussion, it might be a different view of the extremes to both sides of the answer. 

In doing that though, the book became very, very dark. And the whole time, I tried to stay true to what I wanted to add to the free will discussion--that humanity can be a very, very evil thing. That maybe the case which says we shouldn't be allowed free will is actually stronger than the opposite. I couldn't do that with redemption. I couldn't do that through love.

I couldn't stay true to the story by creating heroes full of hope, and villains who necessarily lost (no spoiler alert, because I still don't know how the thing ends). However, people hate this stuff. I got a one star review today because the story was too dark. I don't care about that, but I just wonder if economically, was it a dumb move? Maybe.

I had to write it though, I think. I needed to see it through, for myself, if no one else. Why can't people dig dark, depressing, novels with little to no redeeming characters? ;)

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