Nostalgia

I've grown a bit nostalgic.

It's kind of like looking on old pictures and looking at old memories.

So looking back at first books of serieses...it's kind of like...wow...that happened...and things were so different back then.

My life was different when I wrote it.

The characters were different in that story.

Dorm Haze portrays characters so differently from how they are in book four of that series...looking back on it...

I feel so proud of how far my favorite little vampire has grown.

It brings a tear to my eye.

Love is Blind: Cover art draft

I am working on a cover for Love is Blind, because the inspiration hit me like lightning.

So, here's a draft...but I am still working on it. I'm just trying to figure out where to touch it up.

Probably the nose. The nose is tricky.

What do you think?

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.

Reluctant Post

I have tried to keep up with writing, but blogging has not interested me as much anymore.

There is not much reason behind it.

Calculated views add up to nothing it seems. At least, that is presumed based on lack of responses between the blog and the important works I am doing.

Every popular post seems to be something unrelated to writing (something I wrote for fun) or something with a picture.

The concept of traffic goes beyond views and followers. It comes down to connection.

I can get better response from Facebook than this Blog so far. And I do.

I do not get as many views on my facebook page as I do here, I will admit to that.

However, there is a loss of connection here, when I spurt information and traffic adds up...
If I post the same thing on facebook, I get feedback, comments, posts from people who have thoughts of agreement/disagreement on the subject.

I have pondered other blog sites and many of them suck harder than the people recommending them would like to admit.



In short, I started out blogging because I could write something down for people to see. But I can do that anywhere.

Now my taste is in connections with people, and with no connections being made here I am hardly seeing a point.

I am hesitant to post because: what is the point?

Viewers?

What viewers?

I have looked at the data feedback, but it does not tell me that there is any necessary following.

Does not tell me whether you read through everything I had to say.

Does not tell me whether you connected, related to, or had some sort of disagreeance to what I said.

It does not give me the feedback that I know you can find on the internet.

You see, before I was living under the excuse of: it's the internet, you don't expect human connections.

But, in the past few months I have noticed that there is a certain connection you can make with people about your work and similar interests if you find the right outlet.


I'm mostly spouting nonsense right now. I guess I am reluctant to post because I just see no point in this blog I have built anymore. Building another one elsewhere would be more work than it is worth.


But, I will admit that I have been thinking about shutting down this blog. I have already shut down most of my other blogs.

I have decided to keep my tumblr blog. That will be where I post pictures. 




Also...I'm busy working on the fourth book of Academia de Diversidad. So I'm quite out of energy for any extra projects.

Relief

I'm so relieved to have the first books of Iron Hearts and Necromancer Saga done.

If you didn't catch the notice, they're available for free as eBooks. I obviously can't make the print version free though.

I do this because I feel that every series has something special/unique about it.

The first book sets the mood, the pace, and starts a story.

I feel readers can get a better sense of the story and get excited about it if they know what is going on.

You could probably understand what these series are going with from War of the Zealot Empire, but I don't think that's true in entirety.

While these two series carry off where War of the Zealot Empire ended, they are very different in respects to the character archs and the tone.

Necromancer Saga is very based around the war itself, the main characters surrounding this war, and why it is important.

While it occurs at the same time, Iron Hearts is about side characters.
They are important to myself and Andrew so we think of them as just part of the family.

The stories would just get too cluttered if it was one big series though.

So while war is going on in Iron Hearts, it is not centered around Necros and the chaos he is creating. It's more in the background.



Meanwhile, Andrew and I are working on both of the second novels.

I am also finishing up book 3 of Academia de Diversidad, Obsessed. I'll have an update for that when it publishes.



After that is published I'll be working on:

• Book 4 of Academia de Diversidad, Love is Blind.
• Book 2 of Demigods and Angels, Loose Dagger.
• Book 2 of Half Blood Origins, Tale of Two Sisters.

I am hoping to get these finished and published in the next few months.