August 2011 Blog Posts (2)

PROLOGUE

The flock has just gotten back together, and Max and Fang are walking along a beach in southern North Carolina. All of a sudden, they find Lissa, the Red-Headed Wonder at a shop. She shrieks and runs over to them. Max and Fang are both wondering why she isn't in Virginia, but they really don't care. This is from Max's point of view.

Chapter 1

Lissa looked at me in amazement as I…

Mostly a reminder to make myself work on this project.

I am currently in the throes of a massive original writing project -- to wit, a trilogy of alternate history novels set in 1896 and 1875. Naturally, I am in need of names for characters and places, general stores and brands. Most of those I have already sorted.

The remaining factor is names, and for historical near-accuracy, I'm going to the Death Index to find them.

Mind you, the SSDI…