Hello friends,
I am currently hard at work on book one of my upcoming epic high fantasy trilogy. I have written 70,000 words, which I estimate is about halfway done, more or less. This one is going well. It resembles The Crystal of Light in a lot of ways but set in a different fantasy universe. But, whereas The Crystal of Light was a standalone novel, this one I'm working on now is a true series starter, which won't tell a complete story until the trilogy is complete, but which begins the story in what is shaping up to be a compelling way. I am going to take my shot and try to get this one tradpubed, because I believe it is going to be good enough to belong on bookstore shelves. If I don't get any nibbles on the fishhook for an agent or publisher, then I would indiepub it. I won't say "as a last resort," because there's nothing wrong with indiepub, but for this one, I am resolved to only indiepub if I try my best and tradpub passes on it.
Interesting pizzas I have recently eaten here in Connecticut, pizza capital of the USA:
A desert pizza topped with blue cheese, fresh figs, and prosciutto. Had this one fresh out of the oven, it was like a fine pastry pie, the blue cheese gets all melty and the figs also get warm and melty, but it was a pizza!
Pizza topped with zucchini and peas, and it turns out that if you put green peas on a pizza, they burst open into green dots that are like splatters of split pea soup.
Pizza topped with egg, cheese, sausage and bacon. This one is not made with tomato sauce and instead pours the raw egg onto the pizza dough with the shredded cheese and then puts it in the oven, so that the egg and cheese cook together into a firm topping.
And, I've had more of a pizza I have food-blogged about before, because it's awesome: pizza with pesto sauce instead of tomato sauce, and pizza using alfredo sauce instead of tomato sauce. They're white pizzas, but not, like, normal white pizzas. And these are so easy you can make them at home.
Happy reading and/or pizza-eating!
Russell
