I'M BAAAACK!

Couldn't just end the blog. There's so much more to talk about!

This will be about writing, and that means writing anything. Three installments of Swagger Vasa Chronicles are available on Amazon as ebooks. The first, A Sirius Condition, is also out in paperback. I'm currently formatting books two and three into paperback.

I'll be doing this alone because, as many of you know, co-author (and my partner of 25 years), Julie Jones, "JJ", passed away on September 18, 2014. My promise to her was that I'd finish the series, and I'm working hard on doing just that.

I thought it fitting that I resurrect The Write Vision with the blog JJ started but never got a chance to finish.

The Birth of Swagger Vasa

Okay, so I always thought having a blog might be pretentious, but that was before I came to the realization I actually have something to say. I am an artist and writer. I have seen my dream of publishing my first book come true. It came about by an insidious means. I started out writing fan fiction on fanfiction.net. I chose Star Wars, to me the most fearsome media, because Star Wars fans are sticklers for details. Frankly, the tech frightened me and then I started reading other stories and I found out a good story embodies a good story with characters the reader cares about and you can have all the technology and battles with lightsabers and blasters you want and it still doesn’t net you reviews. I was lucky and honored to receive positive reviews.

I created an original character called Swagger Vasa—actually a pretty nasty individual, a bounty hunter that took the heads of his prey and had no friends other than one called Kit Flynn. I found reviews coming my way that begged me to have more stories about Swagger and I obliged until I had a cult following—small, but avid. And then, when it looked like Swagger had seen his day because I just could not think of any more stories to write for Star Wars that could include him, people gave me the idea of taking him mainstream. Thus, by a stroke of fate, Swagger Vasa was born.

I now can proudly say Swagger Vase Chronicles - Book One - A Sirius Condition, co-written by Karen Howard who is my roommate and BFF, has been published on amazon.com kindle. How many will there be? Well, we have enough material right now for books two and three, which we are in the process of doing final edits, and book four, which is already close to one hundred pages. EIGHT?! Possible. Probable.

The process of changing Swagger to mainstream, changing his world from Star Wars to another from our own imaginations and creating a whole crew, background and twisting, convoluted plots, has been the biggest challenge, but I think we have succeeded. Amazon.com is featuring the first five chapters for free so I urge anybody reading this to take a peek.

 

And this is it for my first posting. In my next, I will discuss how the art for the covers changed as well as the character and my other fan fiction endeavors.