Good morning folks! This will be brief, but I thought it might be fun and informative to let you know where the books stand.
My editor got all three Sex Bunker Apocalypse books back to me in record time and I’m hard at work going through her edits. The first book had the most notes of course, but for a first novel it’s to be expected. I’m spending a few hours every day on edits, and the first book took just over two weeks. The second book was much smoother – my spouse says I “found my footing” with it – and I’ve completed that one as of yesterday evening. The third book I began today. Not to toot my own horn, but I forgot how much fun these books are. I really hope you’ll enjoy them.
Anyhow, once I’ve done a first pass on edits, and followed my editor (almost) to the letter, I’ll go back and do what I call an Adam Edit. I’ll read all three books out loud, and make the changes I feel need to be made. Hopefully these will be small. For example, one of our protagonists is wearing parachute pants on the cover of the second book. It might be wise to mention this in the book itself!
Otherwise, I’ve written a fourth book, but haven’t found an editor for it yet. It’s a book about a young dryad who lives in Boston before the events of the trilogy. Don’t worry if you want to (inexplicably) skip the trilogy and dive right into the dryad book down the road. Reading Sex Bunker Apocalypse won’t be required. The dryad book took about three months to write, but I was pretty flagged out following the SBA trilogy. Once the trilogy’s up for sale and I’ve finished the ludicrous amount of paperwork required to actually sell a book on Amazon (and make sure people even know it exists and all that) then the fourth book will go to editing.
In the meantime I’ll keep updating the blog, and the monthly newsletter. I’d rather use the blog for things like “story tests” where I write a chapter and see what folks think of it. I have a lot of ideas for novels. When I worked full-time as a painter of tiny model miniatures I worked long hours, and very quickly. I used to paint between twenty and forty little model men a day. That can be difficult to visualize.
Right now I’m writing approximately three thousand words a day, like clockwork every day. The fifth book is shaping up nicely. Chapter nine just whizzed by. This manuscript will be its own separate thing, taking place outside the SBA universe. It’s about an older man who just wants to be left to his work.
Sometimes we all want to be left to our work, or our hobbies, or our new obsessions. The world rarely lets this occur, I find, and certainly doesn’t allow for this guy to stay at home. For one thing, he’s out of food. For another, there’s a strange man washed up on the beach outside his house. As the story goes on we look at this man’s needs, his desires and his history, while the world changes around him.
I may post chapters or snippets from time to time if folks would like that. For now, I’m off to figure out how Vellum works.
Happy writing,
Adam Brink
