Daunting Challenge

I sit down at my laptop after a long week of work with a noble thought in my mind: work on my book. The Minstrel is currently sitting at the beginning of the second (or is it third?) draft, all ready for the next set of revisions. With a whopping 136,848 words, this book is …

Working Man

Well y'all, there's good news and bad news; The good news is that I am OFFICIALLY GRADUATED! I have finished and conquered the monster of academia, and in the end I found out that it was actually just there to help me all along. I actually triple graduated, since I finished my homeschool education, my …

Book Spotlight for Jayne’s Endeavor

"Drum roll please," Max said in a grand voice, and Levi immediately responded by beating a staccato on a snare drum. "Nate, get ready with the spotlight," Max whispered. Nate gave a thumb up that was lost in the almost complete darkness of the theater room of Mission HQ. All of the characters and staff …

My Personal Favorites

Hi y'all, I'm pretty sure I've mentioned these books before on occasion, but I decided I'd list some of my favorite Indie books from my bookshelf that I think y'all should check out. I've generally listed them from my favorite moving down, but there would be a few cases where I'd have to rank stuff …

Three Years and Running

Thunder Boomed behind me as I entered the front door of the Mission HQ building and headed down the empty halls. Only the security lights were on, and I figured all the officers had gone to the character quarters for the day. I pulled off my dripping trench coat and folded it over my arm …

Help Each Other Out

Hello All, As I've been working towards releasing another book, my mind inevitably comes back to the old problem of marketing and advertising a book once it's published. It's a problem that independent authors face on a regular basis, and there isn't a ready-made answer for them, unless they got loads of money to market …

Another Run-through Completed!!!

Hey guys, I don't know what you've been doing with any downtime you may have due to quarantine, but here at Mission HQ we have appropriated the time to work on editing. So, on behalf of the MHQOC, I would like to announce that we have officially completed another run-through of The Minstrel, beginning to end. …

A Quick Rant

Hear's to the un-dead! No, I don't mean zombies. I mean the survivors, the resurrects, the you-should-be-dead-but-somehow-aren't characters of literature. 'Tis a brilliant work of authordom to kill a character, get an emotional response from readers, and then have them "come back" and not be dead, only to get another emotional response. From the great …

The End of it all

Hey guys. I've got some sad news to share with you. After looking over my life and reconsidering my priorities, I have decided that I'm just not cut out to be a writer. I've got too many things going on to have time for all this writing and editing, etc. Besides that, I'm underappreciated, have …

Covid19 Proper Perspective

Hey guys. Just saw this video my pastor made and thought it was pretty good, so I decided to share it with you all. It gives a perspective that is all too rare in today's day and age, and something we all need to be reminded of. TTFN! Malachi Cyr