Okay…don’t panic.  I’ll still be writing a book in November, and you are still invited to read along.  It’s just that it’s not going to be THE LEDGER - it’s going to be a weird western dark fantasy titled Hallowed Ground.  I’m supposed to write this book with author (and my good buddy ) Steve Savile. We have an outline, but we’ve been unable to find a good time to actually WRITE it.

We have decided this.  I am going to write the rough draft a chapter at a time during Nanowrimo.  Steve is going to do a second draft of each chapter, revising, adding, chopping, etc.  We will let you read along with the revised versions of each chapter.  That way I still write 50k words in November (probably a lot more than that) and Steve can do a second draft from what I do and tighten the book up - so we have our book ready for submission shortly after Nano is done, you get two writers for one and a cleaner manuscript…

Hope this works for everyone.  I’m psyched because I LOVE this book…seriously love this book.  I’m dying to start writing it, and now the hard thing will be waitinf for November 1st…

David

I actually am not sold yet on the title, but I have the outline finished for the first fourteen chapters of the book, and expect to have the rest of the outline completed shortly.  This is the story of two families with a shared, dark history, a secret place, a secret society - and what happened when a young man finds the secret’s buried in an old Ledger.  It has suspense, historical mystery, a hint of science fiction and magic - has a coming of age story and romance - and will come to you one segment at a time during the month of November.

I will probably leave a few more hints along the way as the outline builds.  Register today, tell your friends!  The novel will not be posted publicly, but if you register for this site (using the controls on the right) you’ll be able to sign in and view the private posts  - participate in the nuts-and-bolts discussion as I write the book - and possibly be in line for some prize giveaways.  I’ve been known to do that in the past.

Without further ado - welcome aboard to all those who have registered…only forty-eight days until launch!

-David Niall Wilson

If you would like to read along in the month of November as I write my next 50,000 words or more of a new novel, register at the right and join the crew.  I’ve set this up so that registered users are the only ones that can see posts marked as private.  Other posts, like this one, will be available to anyone who visits the site, but they will only be intended to draw people in to join the reading / commenting group.

I’ve been doing Nanowrimo since 2004.  Since then I have finished the novels “The Mote in Andrea’s Eye,” “Vintage Soul,” “The Orffyreus Wheel,” and the first 50,000 words of “Gideon’s Curse”.  I’m not sure what I’ll be writing this year, but there’s only one way to find out (unless you are me).  Sign up and read along!

For books that are already finished, click the scrolling covers to the right.

– David Niall Wilson