Island of Stone is published and now its time to market and get an audience. Amazon is telling me that one person had purchased the book and 6 have downloaded free copies. I have a long road ahead. Now, I’m focusing on getting some of my older works up to speed to join Island of Stone on this journey. From all the articles I’ve read, it is important to have more than one book on Amazon to be successful, so I’ve decided to start with Vril.
Vril is the first novel I wrote. It is about an ancient power held within sacred texts. This power was the key to the Nazi’s dramatic rise and ultimately their just as dramatic downfall. The story follows Harvard professor Alex Dwendelson as he comes into possession of one of these texts. It is the last and most power and a growing secret organization of Nazis wants it back.
The novel was completed back in 2005 while I was still living in China. I haven’t read it since that time. It’s been about 15 years and it is strange to go back to a book written when I was in a completely different place in my life. I was still very much a kid then, just out of college, and in the midst of a great adventure.
The story is a good one, actually better than I remember. The book needs work though. I’ve learned a lot about writing since then and it will take a bit of time to go through and clean it up, but I’m excited to be reintroduced to the characters and it is fun to travel down memory lane.
My teaching load in China was about 20 hours a week, even with several part-time jobs. I had so much time to write then. I wish I had realized how much of a luxury that was. In the two years that I lived there, I wrote two books. If I was in that situation it would be more like 10. Oh well, live and learn 🙂
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