{"id":2072,"date":"2015-11-05T00:06:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T08:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2015-11-05T00:36:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T08:36:33","slug":"updates-and-new-short-story-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/?p=2072","title":{"rendered":"Updates and New Short Story Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few updates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I finished\u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/16479419-dragonbound\" target=\"_blank\">Dragonbound<\/a><\/em><\/span><em>!<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0I started this book back in 2011, put it aside, and then picked it back up earlier this year. I&#8217;ll write another post on this book and how it came to be, and\u00c2\u00a0the various struggles I had with it, but overall it turned out to be a really fun book to write, and I can&#8217;t wait for everyone to read it. I don&#8217;t know the release date yet, but it should be coming out sometime next year from Skyscape.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve started planning Renegade X 4 and<i>\u00c2\u00a0can&#8217;t wait<\/i> to start writing! I&#8217;m still missing some big important pieces, like the main plot and who the bad guy is, but I&#8217;m excited about all the other stuff I&#8217;ve figured out, and it&#8217;s all coming together. I&#8217;d meant to start this one this summer, but I <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">delusionally<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0optimistically overestimated when I could get Dragonbound done. (It was originally supposed to be done by July. I finished it late October&#8230;) I have adrenal fatigue and Hashimoto&#8217;s (my thyroid doesn&#8217;t work like it should), and I can&#8217;t always predict how much energy I&#8217;ll have. Some days I feel good, and some days I can&#8217;t do much of anything. (This is the main reason why there was a two-year gap between books 2 and 3.)\u00c2\u00a0<em>But<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0my health is slowly improving, and I&#8217;m going to try my best to get book 4 done a lot sooner this time.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m currently working on\u00c2\u00a0the Renegade X holiday special. The backers of the kickstarter for book 3 got to vote on which holiday I&#8217;m writing about, and\u00c2\u00a0Halloween won by a landslide. As you can see below, it&#8217;s called\u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/27405940-the-haunting-of-renegade-x\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Haunting of Renegade X<\/em><\/a><\/span>. I don&#8217;t have my official description written up yet, but I can say that it takes place between books 2 and 3, and in it, Damien is haunted by his dead ex-best friend Pete. Kickstarter backers will of course be getting this story as part of their incentives, but I&#8217;ll be putting it up on Amazon as well, so watch for that later this month. (Or, better yet, sign up for my newsletter, and I&#8217;ll let you know as soon as it&#8217;s out.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/27405940-the-haunting-of-renegade-x\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i1314.photobucket.com\/albums\/t570\/kaerfel\/Book%20Covers\/Haunting%20Preview_zps2c6fu2jt.jpg\" alt=\" photo Haunting Preview_zps2c6fu2jt.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And, last but not least, I started working on a book about writing a few years ago (2011, actually, the year of abandoned books and no energy), and lately I&#8217;ve been thinking about picking it back up. It&#8217;s called\u00c2\u00a0<em>Breaking the Rules<\/em> and is meant to be an intermediate book on writing. I was always frustrated with how many books there are for beginners, but not much for when you&#8217;ve\u00c2\u00a0got a few books finished but aren&#8217;t, you know,\u00c2\u00a0<em>there yet<\/em>. And I hate rules about writing and am a big fan of breaking them, so that&#8217;s a big part of what the book&#8217;s about, too. (As you can guess from the title.) In it, I go over\u00c2\u00a0so-called rules like showing vs. telling, the use of the verb &#8220;to be,&#8221; and passive voice, among others, how they tripped me up when I was learning how to write, and why what everyone&#8217;s told you about them is a bunch of crap. (I hate those rules! Just mentioning them here is making me angry. Erg.) I&#8217;ve got an outline and some of it written. I think I&#8217;ll also be adding a section on writing sequels\/series, since that&#8217;s something I wish more people talked about, too. But I&#8217;m also open to suggestions, <strong>SO, IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT WRITING<\/strong>, or something you want me to include in this book&#8211;any &#8220;rules&#8221; you want me to talk about breaking, or if there&#8217;s some aspect of writing you&#8217;d like to hear more about from me&#8211;<strong>LET ME KNOW<\/strong>. You can ask here in the comments, message me on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChelseaMCampbell\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/span>, or email me at CampChelsea@gmail.com. If I end up writing about your suggestion\/answering your question, I&#8217;ll send you a free ebook\u00c2\u00a0copy of the finished book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few updates: I finished\u00c2\u00a0Dragonbound!\u00c2\u00a0I started this book back in 2011, put it aside, and then picked it back up earlier this year. I&#8217;ll write another post on this book and how it came to be, and\u00c2\u00a0the various struggles I had with it, but overall it turned out to be a really fun book to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":114,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2076,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}