C.M. Halstead
I am working three books at the moment!
A cathartic military fiction book about a teenager gaining the strength to be a warrior, then after it all, having to learn the strength to come back home, as much as it humanly possible after seeing the best and worst of humankind (on the same day). He has to face his demons, as we all do, in order to come all the way home and become the balanced adult he knows he can be. A story for the wounded parts of all of us!
Last fall I sat down to write the third book of The Tripper Series last fall during NaNoWriMo, instead, my inner muse decided to write the first book of a thrillagy! I listened and cranked out 50,000 words of it, in 17 days. I am glad I listened! I got to know two great characters, whose arcs will be fun to write over the three book installment. A female, three-year FBI agent who's father is a legacy and a disgruntled Veteran who's record says he and his team did nothing, although they are strangely dying off, and one of them appears to be a serial killer. The idea just came to me literally as I sat down to write; I was going to save the blank, new file as FTF3 (my working titles for The Tripper Series) when I saw a short story file I had created one night, 17 days later, the short story became the first book in a thrillagy.
Both of those stories I will be working on in 2016, bringing them both to print and digital download is my goal for this year!
This might also be a good time to mention that I have started on book three of The Tripper Series. In book three we get to visit the private spaces of Rosa and Miokel, learning more about their character, what drives them and what they do for recovery after missions. We also get to see Mackenzie step into her own as a warrior and Grey has to re-visit a villain from his past. The one who killed his mentor!
A cathartic military fiction book about a teenager gaining the strength to be a warrior, then after it all, having to learn the strength to come back home, as much as it humanly possible after seeing the best and worst of humankind (on the same day). He has to face his demons, as we all do, in order to come all the way home and become the balanced adult he knows he can be. A story for the wounded parts of all of us!
Last fall I sat down to write the third book of The Tripper Series last fall during NaNoWriMo, instead, my inner muse decided to write the first book of a thrillagy! I listened and cranked out 50,000 words of it, in 17 days. I am glad I listened! I got to know two great characters, whose arcs will be fun to write over the three book installment. A female, three-year FBI agent who's father is a legacy and a disgruntled Veteran who's record says he and his team did nothing, although they are strangely dying off, and one of them appears to be a serial killer. The idea just came to me literally as I sat down to write; I was going to save the blank, new file as FTF3 (my working titles for The Tripper Series) when I saw a short story file I had created one night, 17 days later, the short story became the first book in a thrillagy.
Both of those stories I will be working on in 2016, bringing them both to print and digital download is my goal for this year!
This might also be a good time to mention that I have started on book three of The Tripper Series. In book three we get to visit the private spaces of Rosa and Miokel, learning more about their character, what drives them and what they do for recovery after missions. We also get to see Mackenzie step into her own as a warrior and Grey has to re-visit a villain from his past. The one who killed his mentor!
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