web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.\u00a0 As anyone familiar with my posts on various forums will have realized, I love old quotes, and adages.\u00a0 Many of which are contradictory, yet still remain true.<\/p>\n
In this instance, I am not deriding myself \u2013 however, I am a wearing a chastened face as I look at my growing string of promises, all broken.\u00a0 Promises, in regard to the imminent release of my second novel.\u00a0 Well, what can I say, save I\u2019ve let myself down \u2013 again.\u00a0 I\u2019m now home, sick with a chest cold.\u00a0 And posting on my blog when I should be editing and formatting The Pilgrimage<\/strong><\/em>!\u00a0 From the sublime, to the ridiculous!\u00a0 Does my vanity know no bounds?<\/p>\n Admissions made, I am frankly delighted with the progress I\u2019m making\u00a0 on the second novel.\u00a0 It is a fantastic piece of work, and you can quote me on that!\u00a0 Seriously though, it expands on Malmaxa, while simultaneously tightening the threads initiated in the first novel.\u00a0 As I said in an email to a friend who made the mistake of purchasing Beltamar\u2019s War (before I reduced its price, but hopefully not its worth, to zero) and is currently reading it.\u00a0 Where was I?\u00a0 Oh, yes – as I said in a recent email \u201cYou are the type of reader I hope to gain – one who sees below the surface and realizes early on that paradise comes at a cost.\u201d\u00a0 Well, The Pilgrimage<\/em><\/strong> begins to expose the cost of the paradise presented in Beltamar\u2019s War<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 I truly hope that my readers, as few as they are, derive as much satisfaction reading the ongoing tale as I am getting writing it, and in reading it again as I near the end of editing.<\/p>\n If you haven\u2019t snagged a free copy of Beltamar\u2019s War, please do so soon, for that offer might well end \u201creal soon now\u201d.\u00a0 Then again, it might not.<\/p>\n No fixed deadline on when The Pilgrimage will be done, and no arrogant assertions such as \u201cwhen its ready\u201d, either.\u00a0 I know myself a little better than that\u2026\u00a0 I doubt if I will ever be completely happy with my own work, therefore it will never be “ready”, and I think that might be a very good thing.<\/p>\n But soon\u2026 and no \u2013 that is not a promise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.\u00a0 As anyone familiar with my posts on various forums will have realized, I love old quotes, and adages.\u00a0 Many of which are contradictory, yet still remain true. In this instance, I am not deriding myself \u2013 however, I am a wearing a chastened face as I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[244,415],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-malmaxa","tag-the-pilgrimage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}