I’m writing this entry pretty much to the person who visited this site on October 3, 2011 searching for information on Errol Klarion and The Substance of Shadows. Because you obviously went through a lot of old posts that mentioned Errol. You are probably hoping for reading material, and have a sense of nostalgia.
First of all, the offer for the old stuff stands. I STILL have the ancient versions of those stories, as well as Searching for Your Soul. If that’s what you’re looking for, just drop me a line, and I can make that material available to you. I also have the Amanda Welkin stories, and any other works I produced at the Sugar Quill.
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If you’re looking because you’re hoping to find out if I’m ever getting the novel I’m working on now done and published, let me give you some Klarion fast facts.
1. There will be 5 Klarion books. Two of them, prequels to the currently-titled Substance of Shadows, contain mainly characters you don’t know yet, with the exception of Professor Borgia and Balthazar. Substance is the third book in the series, but will, with luck, be the first book published.
2. Substance of Shadows was my critique book at Viable Paradise 2009, where I received a great many good ideas of how to revise it. For example, the Klarion stories are historical now, spanning 90 years from around 1840 to approximately 1910. I have changed some characters, added some characters, and cut some characters.
3. I haven’t really gotten back to Substance until 2011. I was working on another book, and that took some time.
4. I’ve been spending most of this year plotting the overall series, working on Book 3, and occasionally working on Book 1.
5. Substance ALMOST got an agent. However, it didn’t quite make the cut, and I am still an unrepresented writer who is working on a new envisioning of the material. And that’s okay. I don’t want this story out there until someone is really excited about it enough to represent it well.
6. I’ll be shouting any publication/representation details from the rooftops, so you’ll know.
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If you are looking for Errol for some reason that I didn’t address above, just let me know. I’m easily contacted (there’s a contact on this very site!), and I’ll be happy to talk.
All righty. Time to work on that scene with Stephanus and his dad. Happy writing, all of you. Or happy reading.
Catherine
Hi! I don’t think it was me that went through your site recently, but I would very much like to read the old versions of your stories as well, if you wouldn’t mind sending them to me. I always regretted that I didn’t bother to save them before you took them down. Every once in a while I look to see what you are up to. Hope you get the new versions published soon as I would love to read them.
Jess:
I would be very happy to send you copies. What I will need is the best email address to send them to. You can email me at the contact form on this page, OR you can send me a note at awelkin AT gmail DOT com.