Interview with author P.L. Blair about her Portals fantasy series....

 

		Today, P.L. Blair joins us in the forum. She’s here to talk about her fabulous Portals fantasy series, in which there are already four books. We've got a lot of ground to cover, so we better get started J
Tim Greaton: It’s great to have you here, P.L. You and I have been hanging around the same writers’ circles for several years, and I know a lot of our common friends have known you even longer than I have. You must have a long background the literary world?   P.L. Blair: I've never really had a non-writing background. I decided early on – around age 7 or 8 – that I wanted to write books when I “grew up” (whenever that will be). Then around junior high school age, I figured I really needed to do something that would earn money, so I started writing for the school newspaper, took journalism classes in high school and college and graduated with associate's and bachelor's degrees in journalism. Then I started writing for newspapers – and still do, occasionally, but it's no longer a full-time job.   Tim Greaton: I have to believe that someone was behind your young literary interest. Am I right?   P.L. Blair: One of the most influential people in my life was my grandfather. I was raised by my grandparents, and Daddy – my maternal grandfather – taught me to read by reading to me. I can still remember sitting in Daddy's lap while he read stories to me about Uncle Wiggly (one of my favorite childhood literary characters) or the Pokey Little Puppy. Besides teaching me to read, those sessions were a wonderful bonding experience, and I really wish more parents had time – or would take the time – to read to their kids.   From Daddy, I learned about the wonderful, awesome worlds that books open. And I guess part of the reason I became a writer was because I loved the stories so much – and could never get enough of them – so it just seemed natural to me that I create my own.                                        Tim Greaton: What do you do when you’re not creating books?   P.L. Blair: I do have a few interests other than writing. I love history, paleontology, geology. I read every book on those subjects that I can get my hands on. I paint occasionally – nothing spectacular, but I enjoy doing landscapes and seascapes. Probably because I have animals, I prefer acrylics to oils – it's easier to clean up spills.   I'm also horse-crazy – have been since I was a kid. These days, I research American Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred pedigrees as a hobby.   Tim Greaton: You mentioned that you have pets. Could you tell us about them?   P.L. Blair: I love dogs and cats – have three of the former and one of the latter. All are rescues – a basset hound, a dachshund, a part-Jack Russell terrier (aka the jackrabbit terror) and a tortoiseshell cat.   Tim Greaton: When you’re not chasing your furry friends around the house, what genres do you read?   P.L. Blair: I read a lot of fantasy and detective novels (my Portals books are a blend of those two genres). But my reading tends to be eclectic – everything from biographies to romances, depending on what strikes my fancy at any given time.     Tim Greaton: What comment about your novels makes you smile the most?   P.L. Blair: I love when readers from Corpus Christi, Texas – the setting for my books – tell me that they recognize places based on my descriptions.   Tim Greaton: You seem to have gathered an unusual audience for a genre writer. Could you explain what I mean?   P.L. Blair: A lot of my readers say they don't like fantasy or detective novels – then they tell me that they like my books. I think maybe it's because my books are set in modern day, and I try to ground them in as much reality as possible. There is magic, of course, but I've established rules by which it operates. I kind of have a theory that, the more “far out” or impossible something sounds – such as magic – the more it needs to “sound” plausible. I think if I want my tales to be believable, I've got to give my readers a basis for belief.   I also like to make my stories fun. The subject is serious – I write about murderers, after all – but I try to inject humor where I can between my characters. I try to keep them real by giving them little idiosyncrasies … Kat tosses her trash in the back seat of her car, for example, and Tevis won't drive a car because he views them as 2,000-pound projectiles.   Tim Greaton: Do you have a lot of past works stacked up and waiting to be finished?   P.L. Blair: I do have a “couple” of projects that I've put on hold – half-formed ideas … books that I've put aside so I can focus on my Portals books … I don't know if I'll go back to them. They haven't called to me yet.   Tim Greaton: You have a fearless nature about you. Have you always been that way?   P.L. Blair: Well … There was the time I stopped a Rose Parade in my hometown Tyler, Texas. I was 5 years old and crazy about horses – still am, for that matter. Every year, Tyler has a Rose Festival, with a parade as part of the celebration. Mother took me, but we were way back in the crowd – so I slipped away from her.   Mother said just about the time she noticed I was missing, she heard people in front of her laughing. She worked her way up until she could ask someone what was going on. And the woman she asked said there was this little blond-haired girl running out and stopping the mounted units by petting the horses.   Sure enough … That was me (she grins).     Tim Greaton: What books have you read that truly impacted your life?   P.L. Blair: A couple of books, actually. I read The Hound of the Baskervilles when I was around 9 or 10, and immediately fell in love with Sherlock Holmes and – from there – the mystery/detective genre. I devoured every Sherlock Holmes book I could find, then went on to books by Dorothy Sayers, Rex Stout, Agatha Christie …   The other book, of course – actually, books – is the Lord of the Rings, which I discovered in high school. I'd been reading fantasy and science fiction since childhood, but Tolkien's epic cemented my love of the genre. More than that, it made me want to write stories about elves and wizards and magic.   Tim Greaton: So what does your final manuscript preparation process look like?   P.L. Blair: I rely to some degree on my own instincts – but I do have beta readers, including my publisher – who was a friend and a reader before she asked to publish my books. One of my sisters, who still lives in Texas (in Rockport, a little city just north of Corpus Christi), also reads my manuscripts, not only for content but to “fact-check” the locations I mention in the series. (As in, “You can't have that happen on Everhart Street, because Everhart doesn't intersect with that street.”)    Tim Greaton: Everyone should have one of those sisters, P.L.! Now that we’re talking about your books, is there one or more authors who you try to model your work after?   P.L. Blair: It's kind of funny. I can't think offhand of anyone in particular. But a while back, I submitted a sample from Sister Hoods, my most recent Portals novel, to an online site that compares your writing to that of famous writers. The answer came back that I write like Ernest Hemingway. I honestly don't see it, but it's very flattering.   Tim Greaton: I tried the same site I think, P.L. Do you remember an author by the name of Elmer Fudd? No. Neither did I. Hmmm.   So, if you had to put a label on your writing, what would it be?   P.L. Blair: At heart, I'm really a storyteller. It's just that I tell my stories in writing. I love words – I think  most writers do; that's part of why we become writers – but what I really love is using words to shape my tales. I want my writers to forget about me, the author, while they're reading. I write from third-person POV, and my goal is to stay “in character” while I'm writing. I try to not have an “author's voice,” but rather to speak through the voice of my POV character.   Tim Greaton: I also prefer a tight point-of-view, P.L., and obviously your fans do as well.   Speaking of your fans, I’m sure they’re waiting to hear us talk about your series Portals. I especially love the evil eyes in the backdrop of your Deathtalker cover.       P.L. Blair: Deathtalker is book 3 in my Portals series. The plot pits my main characters (Corpus Christi, Texas, police detectives Kat Morales and Tevis Mac Leod) against a serial killer like none they've met before: a creature who uses magic to convince his victims – young, beautiful women with a noticeable resemblance to Kat – to kill themselves so he can absorb their life force into his own.   Tim Greaton: What led you to move in this direction with your series?   P.L. Blair: All of my Portals tales are based on the premise that the creatures of our mythology and legends actually exist in the parallel world – the Realms of Magic – that exists on the other side of the gateways (the “Portals” of my series title) that separate our two worlds.   My concept is that the Portals were open from earliest times, so our ancestors actually encountered wizards, elves, ogres, trolls, dragons … all of these beings. Then, maybe a thousand or so years ago, the Portals were closed – but now they're open again, and the Realms' inhabitants are returning to our world and bringing their magic with them – for good and bad. (Tevis, for example, is an elf, and his and Kat's allies include a wizard.)   As part of my “research,” I often read (or reread) collections of folk and fairy tales and mythology, and one of my favorite books is a compilation by W.B. Yates of Irish folktales. This time, the story of the lovetalker grabbed my attention. The lovetalker was a handsome youth – related to the leprechaun – who wandered the Irish countryside seducing young women. After spending some time with a girl, the lovetalker would leave her – and she inevitably would pine away and die of a broken heart.   I started to think about the lovetalker in terms of a serial killer – not a careless youth who didn't care about the results of his dalliance, but a deliberate murderer whose goal was to steal the life of his victim, to take it for himself. I got to thinking about the lovetalker as a kind of psychic vampire – a “deathtalker” – which is the name Tevis gives him in the book.   Tim Greaton: You have four books out now (at least I can see four listed at Amazon). Will the Portals series be growing any further?   P.L. Blair: Sister Hoods is the fourth book in the series. Beyond that, I'm always playing with new story ideas. I have a couple of older manuscripts that my publisher's interested in, so we’ll see which makes it to market next. Either way, Portals will continue because …   Well, there are so many creatures out there in our myths and folk tales – and I do enjoy pulling them into my stories and giving a little bit of a tweak to what we think we know about them. In Shadow Path, for example, I introduce pixies – and they're nothing like Tinker Bell!   The villain in Stormcaller – book 2 in my series – is Tlaloc, a creature worshiped by the Aztecs as a god of storms and virulent diseases (such as tuberculosis and leprosy). Tlaloc has returned to the human world – our world – with an impossible demand: Restore his worship as in times past, complete with human sacrifice, or he will send a hurricane to wipe out the Texas coast. Stormcaller also gave me the chance to poke around on the other side of the Portals, since Kat, Tevis and their allies discover they can only defeat Tlaloc in the Realms of Magic.   Sister Hoods, book 4, starts with a band of nymphs (from Greek mythology) and satyrs robbing a bank in Rockport, Texas – a small town north of Corpus Christi. But Kat and Tevis soon learn they're dealing with more than a simple bank robbery – and there are a conclave of evil wizards and a wyvern involved ...   In book 5, which is currently in the works, I go back to Ireland for a story involving leprechauns – and they're not the cute greeting-card little men in green either …   The supply of potential villains and plots seems endless, and lately I've been thinking it would be fun to plunk a dragon onto Cloud Peak, a mountain in the Bighorns near Sheridan, Wyoming, where I'm currently living.   Tim Greaton: Having written a couple of series myself, I know that sometimes it would be nice to be able to go back and tweak a few details to better suit the new stories. How do you handle that?   P.L. Blair: I always want to change something but all we can do is make each book as deep as possible, allowing for future stories to be told. That’s one of the reasons that, when I revised Sister Hoods, I delved a bit more into the relationship between Kat and Tevis.   Tim Greaton: I often joke that authors here on the forum will live past 125 years. What’s your answer to that?   P.L. Blair: I don't intend to go out until I'm at least 130 – and I will be found face-down on my keyboard having typed “the end” to my most recent book!   Tim Greaton: And what would your epitaph read?   P.L. Blair: She Enjoyed Dancing in the Rain.   That's taken from a line I found – seriously, though incredibly – on a plaque on the wall of Dairy Queen in Rockport, Texas: Life isn't about waiting out the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.   On the other hand, given me, what's most likely to be on my tombstone – because these are the words I most frequently mutter under my breath these days – is: It's Too Soon to Panic.   I'm not sure that could be called my motto. It's more like my daily mantra.   Tim Greaton: It would be great if you could share your website/blogsite and links to where our audience could directly communicate with you and purchase your stories.   P.L. Blair:  My website is http://www.plblairportals.com and you can access my blog by clicking above the photo of me and my gorgeous basset hound, Shilo. There's a link there to my publisher's site – or you can go directly to http://www.studiosee.com – and read samples from (and buy) my books.   I'm also on Twitter @plblairportals … and on Facebook as Pat Blair (with an author's page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/PL-Blair/170370356378877?sk=wall ).   I also have an author's page on Amazon.   On a more personal level, I love to hear from readers, so anyone who wants to visit with me – feel free to email me at plblair47@hotmail.com.   You can also view trailers for all four of my books on YouTube. The trailers, by the way, were done by a very talented lady named Su Halfwerk. I think she did a great job!   Tim Greaton: P.L., thanks for taking the time with us. I’m guessing keyboards are already clicking in search of some great Portals books.   P.L. Blair: Tim, I am delighted to have had this opportunity to visit with you and everyone on your forum. You all have my thanks and appreciation for letting me “ramble” on about the fantasy stories I love so much. I hope you'll visit my website and blog as well.

 

Interview with fantasy author Scott Muller, creator of the "Legacy of Ten Saga"...

		Today, in the Forum, we have fantasy author Scott Muller. Creator of “The Legacy of the Ten Saga,” Scott has already released two amazing novels and is now working on the third. I’m excited to learn where his in-depth world building will be taking him (and us) next.
Tim Greaton: Scott, it would be great if we could start off with a quick bio of you. Be sure to give us a little “dirt” about you while you’re at it.  Scott Muller: I’m a mutt, the best of Russian, Polish and German heritages. The grade school I attended was in the country, had less than 100 students, and I still remember the names of all the kids I grew up with. It was the sixties, a time of war, music, drugs and protest. I watched the Beatles arrive in the US, and Kennedy be assassinated from our school gym floor. I witnessed Glenn being shot into space and the Apollo landing on the moon in the same room. By Junior High, I found that I had a gift for math and science, probably an artifact of the times, and went on to accumulate three engineering degrees, including a Masters in Science from Colorado School of Mines. I lived in Brazil for a little over a year and spent my twenty-first birthday in Rio de Janeiro. I have stories of Carnival and those days on the beach which I still cannot share. I love to travel and have enjoyed the hospitality of many countries. I flew into London on the day Princess Dianna was in her car crash and stayed for eight memorable weeks, seeing the funeral, visiting castles, drinking ale and perusing museums. For the last decade, I’ve worked as the Tech. Lead of a Quality organization, breaking things for a living. I eventually grew up and married, then remarried a wonderful understanding woman and we hatched two brilliant kids who challenge me daily.   Tim Greaton: As time goes on, do you find the time you spend writing has changed your lifestyle or scheduling in a notable way?   Scott Muller: I try to write a bit every day. It takes less time away from my family. The writing comes quickly because I have mulled over the story in my dreams for weeks. The other side of the business—social networking… well, it consumes time like the government spends money. I take periodic days off from my day job and spend them working on my novels in a small Einstein’s coffee shop in Westminster, Colorado. On a good day, I can put 20,000+ words down on paper. People ask if I’m driven to write all the time. No, not really. My wife and kids come first. If my writing schedule needs to slip a bit, so be it. Kids only grow up once and I intend to make the best of it by cherishing and building those relationships. I missed out on much during my first marriage, worrying too much about career and business. I’m fortunate in that, at this time, I do not have to make my living at the craft. Someday, I would like to escape the cube and make this my full time gig! I have found that my author friends, whether romance, erotica, paranormal or fantasy, are a close-knit and supportive group of people. Everyone pulls together. I’ve made some great friends. I also try to find time to build guitars. I’m currently working on a Torres 1937 Segovia Concert replica for myself.   Tim Greaton: It seems that most people have a hero or model that they look up to. Which writers have inspired you and have impacted your life and your work?    Scott Muller: Models? I look up to Irina Shayk, she’d have to be my favorite. Oh, you meant those kinds of models… Sorry! I’ll carry on now… I have a couple heroes and each has brought something special to my writing. Twain and Steinbeck had a way with everyday folk, how they speak, and how they lived. I try to keep my characters real. Poe was the master of the macabre. His work still gives me chills. I try tried to incorporate Poe in my writing of the dark mage and Lich. Dickens could describe a scene so vividly that you could see, smell, hear, and taste it. His influence shows up in scenes in the Keep, the dining room, and the library. Tolkien was the first fantasy author to blow my mind by creating an entire world of myth, language included. I was hooked. He was the main reason I began story-telling. Tolkien opened up my imagination. I try to be as creative in my development of mythical creatures as Tolkien, but his shoes are very big and I’m afraid I am but a student in comparison.   Tim Greaton: Do you have a great personal story you tell us?   Scott Muller: I met Bob Hope in the Denver airport back in the 70s. It was very late in the evening after an exhausting day spent in L.A. I walked up to him, extended my hand, and said something to the effect of—“Mr. Hope, Thank you for all the laughs and good work you do for our boys at war.” We shook hands, I turned and walked away. He yelled back, “Don’t you want an autograph?” I said, “No thank you! The memory of meeting you is enough.” He snorted and followed us down the concourse and insisted we take an autograph saying—we’d regret it someday if we didn’t. All I had was my luggage. He signed the garment bag with a pen he kept in his pocket—which, I suppose, he kept for just such a situation. He seemed a bit dismayed that I didn’t want his signature. I can’t imagine that happening in this day and age. There was also this run-in with a group of supermodels in London in 1997 at the Hippodrome, but that story will have to wait for another time. I was such a brash American, didn’t even know who they were. Apparently that was quite charming…   Tim Greaton: Have any difficult people from your past motivated you to write about and possibly abuse them…fictionally, of course.   Scott Muller: I really haven’t made many enemies; I’m a very social and easy going guy. There were more than a few kids I went to high school with who have never grown up. I remember my 20th high school reunion. I couldn’t go, so I sent a short one page bio with pictures of me, the family, and the kids, so that people could see what I was doing. They apparently thought it would be funny to use an unkind picture they pulled off the WEB in the yearbook instead of one of my pictures. My kids were excited to see the pictures and their jaws, as well as mine, fell open when we opened the yearbook and saw the picture that my name was under. It was in very poor taste. I burned my yearbooks, figuring that part of my life was over, and that I had no reason to ever go back. I’ve come to the realization that in life, you meet a lot of people who are not worth getting to know. I put my effort into getting to know those that are. None of my characters are based on people from my junior high or high school days, but I’m tempted. Please note, that there were also many incredibly nice people from my school.   Tim Greaton: There’s a lot of buzz about your books right now. Could you tell us a little bit about them?  Scott Muller: I have two books out. The first is titled, Eyes of the Keep, Book 1, from The Legacy of the Ten Saga. It is a story of a group of wizards who have lost their way, and the original wizards (long dead), known as the Ten who may have facilitated the calamity they are now facing. They have forgotten their heritage, their skills, and have become irrelevant. They inadvertently discover that the world needs their help and unfortunately, they are ill equipped to deal with the dark forces ravaging the realms. Everything they believe is challenged, most of what they know is wrong. The second book was released in January and is titled the Third Sign continues the Saga. I am working on book 3, Darkhalla and have committed 137 pages to ink so far.   One of many underlying themes in the series is a lesson in complacency. Another is how those with ultimate power try to repress and control by weaving plausible lies. Finally, it is about teamwork and fellowship when faced with insurmountable odds. I’ve attempted to create a rich world populated by people real enough to be family. I also built a system of magic with complex rules that I hope are as believable to the reader as they are challenging to the characters.     Tim Greaton: What part of this story fascinated you and made you want to write about it?   Scott Muller: We tend to think of Grand Wizards as all-knowing and infallible beings. I wanted to explore how a group of wizards, who were once considered gods, would react if everything they prided themselves in knowing was wrong. What if their heroes were not what they believe them to be? What if they needed the help of other, common men? Could they swallow their pride? I also wanted to explore the shades of gray between right and wrong. In my book, the sides are not clearly delineated, and often-truth depends on which side of the fence you are standing. I like to ask myself what I would do when faced with two equally bad choices. I also drew from my experience with savants (as defined in 18th century English—expert). I picture these wizards as being savants, brilliant in a single narrowly-focused area (i.e. magic of potions) and yet in others—clueless and ignorant.   Tim Greaton: You call yourself a storyteller, not a writer. Can you explain? Scott Muller: Sure. I think of myself as a bard. I can weave incredible yarns. Storytelling is a gift, writing is a skill, and some call it a craft. I am still learning the craft. I make mistakes. My typing is crap. Most people have a bucket list, I have a… screw-up list. A list of things I get wrong. Things like two spaces after a period (old manual typewriter habit), forgetting my comma after said—things like that. I am still learning the craft. I thank people for being patient with me. A storyteller makes you feel like you are in the scene, know the characters personally and are witnessing the action firsthand. The difference is the degree of engagement. A book can be well-written, the prose—beautiful—and yet it can leave a hollow feeling of incompleteness in the reader. A storyteller pulls the reader in and makes them forget that they are reading a book. I have had people read my book from cover to cover staying up all night to finish. When readers write and ask questions about personality quirks of the characters—it lets me know they are more than engaged. They care enough about the characters that they wish to more fully understand their personalities. It is almost cultish. As Yoda would say, “Dialect writing he does—from the dark side it comes. Enjoys it, he must!”  Tim Greaton: One of my rather famous past writing instructors taught that something about a book should always be over-the-top…because that’s what will make a story memorable. Describe a character or setting in your story that is over-the-top.   Scott Muller: It is humorous and hugely entertaining how much of a bumble these wizards have inadvertently become. They know as little about this fantasy world as the reader, and the two groups take a journey of discovery together. Two of my main characters are more like a squabbling pair of married folk. They have been together so long; they know each other’s buttons and finish each other’s sentences. They are in fact, the medieval equivalent of the odd couple. One character jumps before looking. The other will push someone over the cliff first to see what happens. There is a scene where they are arguing over diner about magic, that several readers have pointed out as a lot of fun, complete with spittle flying, arm waving, fist slamming and almost incoherent talking with mouths full. One reader said they felt the need to clean the food off their clothes when the scene ended. I’m flattered to know my scenes make readers feel as though they are there.   Tim Greaton: You have some wonderful descriptive segments in your story. Did you learn your storytelling skills from a family member or someplace else?   Scott Muller: Someplace else. I enjoyed reading Dickens and Michener as a teen. I guess it rubbed off. People have told me I have a gift for describing a place without weighing down the dialog. It is a great complement, and I hope I can continue to live up to their praise.   When I was growing up, my grandfather used to tell me stories about the old country and what it was like growing up in Eastern Europe in the late 1800’s. He would pace his stories and digress into details that left me wanting for more. My Dad is an avid reader and has thousands of paperback books. I used to raid his collection (‘60s and 70s) and read Cooper, Heinlein, Asimov, Z. Grey, and L’Amour. Many of these were written to describe places people had never been. They had to be good at their craft. My grandfather used to only read a few pages a night, then close his eyes and visualize what he had read. I once asked him why and his explanation caught me off guard. He said something to the effect of, “I know what I read, but I am not sure that I have interpreted it correctly. Did the author mean for me to take the simple explanation he provided, or is he trying to distract me like a magician. There may be more to what has been written, this I need to ponder. I need to visualize the scene and fill in the details from the hints I have been given. I need to understand if he meant what he wrote.” He taught me to do the same.   Tim Greaton: Do you plan a sequel or is your book part of a series?   Scott Muller: It is part of a series. I have the books planned in the series, however, I can’t fully predict how many there will be. Suffice it to say, I will write as many as need be to tell the story. My outlines are fairly detailed and tend to be about 60-100 pages long. I have also considered taking some of the characters off into side stories. They deserve their own stories and my fans have very receptive to the idea.   Tim Greaton: That’s definitely a serious length for an outline. Can you tell us more about your writing method?   Scott Muller: Sure! I worked on the full outline for the series, broken into books based on my average chapter length of 20 pages. I usually work on two books at a time, trying to keep the story consistent across the book boundaries. For a series, I find I have to be extra careful not to leave omissions or open plot lines. I plan all the arcs and subplots out in detail. I try to answer all the questions left hanging as I move through the series. I find that writing detailed outlines, timelines, and character sheets help me keep my facts straight. I also keep a list of unresolved issues, which I know I will need to address at some time in the future. Once in a while, my characters develop a mind of their own and go off and do something unexpected. I just go with the flow, and let them tell their own stories when they feel the need. These little happy accidents can lead to entire new twists that I never would have thought of had it not been for their help!   Tim Greaton: Just for fun, which of your characters would you want to spend a week with in the real world…and why?    Scott Muller: Sheila, but my wife would never allow it. She knows me well enough to keep us apart. Sheila is a battle elf, 5’7”, 110lbs, dark hair, green eyes, fit, and very physical. She’s an outdoor girl with attitude. Think of a cross between Jolie (Laura Croft), Dushku (Doll House) , and a bit of Summer Glau. Throw in a bit of biker attitude and a good dose of living on the edge, and you have Sheila. We would end up pounding shots and getting into trouble.   On the guy side; Zedd’aki, because he seems to have some repressed issues, he’s wickedly clever and has a dry wit. I’d like to pick his brain while hoisting a mug of mead, and gnawing on a few meat pies or turkey legs. His understanding of magic comes from a different place from the other wizards in the Keep. He is the only mage that both fears and respects the magic. He knows far more than he lets on.   Tim Greaton: It would be great if you could share your website/blogsite and links to where our audience could directly purchase your books.   Scott Muller: My website is www.scottdmuller.com. Everything can be found through the site: autographed softcovers, eBooks, and the blog. My books can be found at Amazon and CreateSpace. They are part of the Amazon Select program, so you can borrow them for free if you are a member. There are direct links from my website to most of these places, here is the Amazon link to book one: http://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Keep-Legacy-Ten-ebook/dp/B005D1HRG6http://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Keep-Legacy-Ten-ebook/dp/B005D1HRG6 I can also be found on Facebook, with tags www.facebook.com/ScottDMuller, or EyesoftheKeep, TheThirdSign, and soon--Darkhalla. My Twitter ID is @ScottDMuller.   Tim Greaton: Thanks for spending time on the Forum today, Scott. I have no doubt that a number of our readers are already scanning online bookstores for a copy of your book.  Scott Muller: Tim, everyone, thanks for having me by. I hope you enjoyed my ramblings. Now, I suppose I should get on with it. As I mentioned earlier, I’m currently working on “Darkhalla,” the third book in the “The Legacy of the Ten Saga.” The goal is to have it out around September.