Eight years ago, my new-found friend, Wayne, and I decided to embark on a mutual dream of forming an Inklings group of our own. But distance was not our friend, he being in Maryland and I being in northern New York. So rather than a weekly gathering in some local pub, we decided upon meeting for a full weekend at a locale halfway between his home and mine.
The result has been a faithful convergence on a poetic (if not sleepy) Pennsylvanian town or city for the last eight years. And what a blessing it’s been for both of us. The mutual camaraderie is immeasurably valuable, as are the long talks concerning writing, plot and character development, theology, doctrines of the faith. Not to mention the verbose amount of gregarious guffawing we engage in.
And threading through it all are the continuous clicks of our laptop keys as we work on our next stories for the world to read. Wayne is working on a new supernatural thriller series called GHOST, while I’m very close to announcing the title and release date of my newest work, codenamed TSR.
Here’s to Inkblots everywhere who enjoy fellowship and the pursuit of the intellectual.
As of 12:10am this morning, Wayne and I officially finished Book 1 of The Bernifell Prophecies for Thomas Nelson Publishing: Curse of The Spider King. What a weight off! We had a little web-cam celebration and I thought I’d share the screen shot with you. Thanks for everyone’s incredible support on FaceBook and Twitter. The book’s release date has actually been bumped up to the week before Halloween! So we’re very excited for the marketing buzz that will create. For more information, you can visit the new website Jason Clement just set up for us at http://www.heedtheprophecies.com We’ll be adding an in-depth site shortly, complete with a media page, videos, and a forum. So stay tuned! Check out Wayne’s content-rich site, too, while you’re at it. (Real links for everything in this post to follow on Tuesday as my internet connection tonight is about as slow as a 3-toed sloth trying to scratch his back).
