Where Have I Been, and What's Next?

I owe you an apology.

When Child of Prophecy was published, I know I mentioned a hiatus (being a parent is hard) but I honestly never thought it’d take 3 long years without a release. Apparently, trying to raise a baby while doing 17 other things is not as easy as I imagined - and then there’s the creative in my soul which keeps yelling at me to pick up writing.

As you can probably see, I’ve made some changes to the website - now I can actually do the cool things I always wanted without relying much on third parties, and to be honest, aside from an improvised puppet show or two, I haven’t done ‘REAL’ writing.

There are a bunch of things that I got caught up with, but I’ll tackle those one by one.

Where Have I Been?

Here and there. Honestly, I was between countries, going back and forth and obsessively kept up with emerging trends not in writing only, but also technology and AI (I’ll post some more thoughts on this later this week).

I’ve been working on super exciting projects that I can’t wait to officially announce - but also I kept getting messages on social media that certain vanity publishers were using my name to trick writers to work with them (lol), I mean, I must have at least 7 posts by now warning everyone of their tactic - but I never thought they would mention their worst enemy as their greatest hero.

If you’re wondering: I’m a 100% fully independent author. In control of every creative, marketing, distribution and sales decision on all my books. I pick the editors, the artists, the beta readers very carefully and I’m not represented by any literary agent - if that changes, an official announcement will go on all my channels (socials, website).

How Child of Prophecy Was Received

Goodness me, it has been 3 years since the Titanlord Trilogy officially ended - and to be completely honest, I don’t think I could’ve ended the series in a better way. Does this mean the end of the Titanlord series? No. But Griffyn’s tale has officially ended.

It was really awesome to see the reviews pile up and having the book and finale be received well by readers, and I think what I tried to get through, got through really well. I promise you, it was very difficult to write that damn thing because so many different elements kept being tangled - and I can safely say that the story ties everything together.

There are awesome things at Titanlord.com the official Titanlord website with a cool 3D game (that is 100% canon) that literally just runs in your browser. It’s called The Black Sword: Legends of Red, and it tells the story of Benjen’s rebellion and how it ended leading directly to the events of the first book. I had so much fun writing those scenes (albeit for a different format) and I’m super happy with how it turned out.

That game is fully outlined, and I’ll be bringing it to pen and paper really soon. It might come out as a novella or heck maybe a novelette - since that game has like some 2 to 3 hour gameplay.

What’s Next?

Well, it’s that character that still to this day terrifes the heck out of me. I can officially announce that the next Fortier book is being outlined and planned right now - I originally planned it as a trilogy, not counting Blood & Moon). So, I promise I’m working hard on that.

The next Fortier book will also pick up directly where The Long Night left. I will face the consequences of what I wrote and will promise there will be no time skips.

Please stay tuned for some more content - I’ve already taken measures to ensure the new website is effective and easy for me to just come and write. This is how I like to blog, raw, unfiltered and un-edited.

Until next time,

M