C.L. Stegall

I know that I nor­mally talk mythol­ogy on Wednesday’s – but we inter­rupt our reg­u­lar pro­gram­ming to bring you this impor­tant message:

I’ve got­ten myself caught up in a new project that is con­sum­ing a lot of my time and I fore­see it con­sum­ing quite a bit more in the months to come. It is pretty big news from our per­spec­tive (I will explain the “our” part of that state­ment on DR Day); and, DR Day will be May 1^st if all goes well. Things are going well at this time, too!

In addi­tion to that project, I’ve been work­ing on a new e-novella which will see a June release on all the major eBook stores!  If you’ve read my col­lec­tion of short sto­ries, Ordeals, it begins with the story One Night In Hol­ly­wood. Well, that story is part of a greater whole: my Valence of Infin­ity series (VoI). The new e-novella will be in that same uni­verse and you will be intro­duced to the only char­ac­ter I have ever writ­ten about that is truly semi-autobiographical: David “Mer­cury” Stone.

I’ve been work­ing on Stone’s ori­gin story for, well, more years than I care to count. Once I get my next two writ­ing projects com­pleted – Red Tome, the sec­ond novel in the Prog­eny series, and Harder vs Stone, the VoI story I men­tioned above – I will return my focus to One Breath Too Far, Stone’s ori­gin story.

In addi­tion to all of that, I’ve been doing some graph­ics arts, some book cover design and redo­ing the Ordeals cover for a re-release (more to come on that, as well). I swear it seems that there are sim­ply not enough hours in the day to do all that I want and need to do. I’ve got a lovely, irre­press­ible Wife that needs some amount of my time (thank God!) and two dogs who think I should always be pay­ing atten­tion to them first and foremost.

Add to this the won­der­ful task of pro­mot­ing my novel, height­en­ing my pres­ence on the social net­works, and some side jobs devel­op­ing web­sites and the occa­sional pho­tog­ra­phy gig…well, you see what I mean about hours in the day.

And, I’ve just been asked if I would like to speak at an upcom­ing Dal­las area pub­lish­ing forum. (Still work­ing out the details on that one!)

I won­der how much caf­feine and choco­late it would take to give me a week with­out sleep. Any ideas?

P.S. – Oh, and don’t miss the lat­est post by Chris­tine Rose, which has a pod­cast of a self-publishing forum for your lis­ten­ing plea­sure!  As well, check out Brian Fatah Steele’s lat­est entry which talks about our fel­low author, Court Ellyn’s new epic novella, Mists Of Black­fen Bog. (Brian cre­ated the cover art! Excel­lent work!)

P.S.S. — And, of course, don’t for­get to take advan­tage of my Buy One Get one Free offer, run­ning until May 31st!