Updates

So I have some updates.

Mostly, I have been writing most of my updates about my books and series on my website.

In case yo did not know, that changed to christianclason.com.

Epic, right?

Okay, so the updates...

I have retired the series "The Were-Dragon" from publication. It remains on sites like Goodreads, as they do not allow books to be deleted. You can find more information on my site.

I am making statements about the books in Academia de Diversidad, regarding books that have not yet been published. I have certain reasons for this, and is more for warning readers who have become invested in the story and are not ready for certain...elements of the stories. You can find information about those upcoming statements here and here.

I made a statement about the fourth book of Academia de Diversidad, Love is Blind. You can find that on this other site.

Oh, and in case you missed the rant about Glastica's popularity, you can find that here too.

So yea, lots of updates regarding these series.

Sorry I have not been updating this blog too much lately. I have been drawn out on my creativity to focus on writing and drawing.

Glastica

Why? Why does this happen?

*face desk*

What's that?

It's like a face-palm...but I replaced my palm with the desk I'm writing this from.

It's what I do every time I come across something about Glastica.

Glastica is one of those early books I did while testing the waters of writing and publishing.

I did not even have eBook formatting down yet when I wrote and published it.

But once it hit eBook format (as a free format) it not only racked up high numbers of downloads (mostly due to it being free) but it racked up the most critiquing and likes on Amazon and Goodreads.

Why?

I DON'T KNOW!

This is what I'm asking myself!

Over! And over!

And sure I took pride in that work. I still do...kind of...it was one of my earlier works where I was working with a format I was unfamiliar with.

But if the writing style being broken was not bad enough (I was working with an unfamiliar format and did not do well as an editor back then)...

The characters were very befuddling, as their concepts became lost in a nonsense of pile ups in what was me trying to handle an alien/science fiction setting rather than a fantasy setting...also I did not write out what I had planned out and should have focused on that more when it was necessary.

Due to my poor editing as well (actually I can't say that, I was hardly anything of an editor at the time, and I had nobody else helping me in that regards) many scenes that were supposed to be removed, altered, or fixed were left as they were in the second or third drafts. Leading to some nonsense and mix ups.

In the end, after reading over the thing following some of the positive feedback I got over a year ago...I was left changing the fate of the sequel so that it explains and conpensates for the problems in the first book.

I mean, I fucked this book up so badly, I'm having problems writing the second book. And sequels don't come so difficult to me.

(Tale of Two Sisters aside, I am just juggling a balance of character concepts, emotions and logic in that story.)

So...why does this book get so much feedback?

And it's not all negative, which a majority of it is.

"An unpolished gem" was what one critic called it, referring to its problems overshadowing how good the story could have been. I refer to this one because this has to be the most intellectual and in depth feedback I have gotten on any book ever.

And there are plenty of low votes that refer to how bad this piece of work was.

Yet there are people who are outright loving it with an addition of 5 star ratings.

And I'm brought back to my same question.

Why? Why does this happen?

Do you have a thought about this strange occurence?

Demons and Hell

A different genre?

I am not well acquainted with the idea of demons and stuff...

I think this falls under a form of fantasy...

But what do you think?

It seems really odd to me. It could be a blend of horror and fantasy!

Where does the line lie?

Where would one draw the definitions between horror and fantasy relative to demons?

I'm not too sure, myself.

I mean, I usually lean towards fantasy type stuff, like elves and magic with dragons and fox people...

But, with some dabbling interest, I am curious about the defining lines...

The questions have brought me to question one of my works, a series called Demigods and Angels.

It is in a futuristic setting that "could be" as I found a few descriptions of Science Fiction to be.

But after some forethought, I am wondering if it is more of Fantasy, due to the angels, demons and meddling gods in the story...

What do you think?