JaqDHawkins

It has taken a few years, but I've turned into a film editor. Not as experienced as the big studiod use, but I've learned a lot over time and even very recently have learned some key skills that will allow me to finish off my first movie, Graveyard Shift, a lot faster than it took me to finish the second one. Old Blood is being considered by a sales agent in Los Angeles, but whether they go for it or not, I have a self-distribution plan in place. I'm just finishing up various admin tasks while I give this sales agent a chance to respond.

I've got a few writing projects partially done and hope to finish off several of them this year. I've been way too immersed in film and the writing has been repeatedly delayed. At the heart of things, I am primarily a writer after all. I have been releasing books under another pen name for a different market, but more Jaq books are to come in both fiction and non-fiction!

Of course marketing one film and finishing the edit on another will slow me still, but having one finished takes off a lot of pressure. Both my fans and my detractors have waited far too long for a result!

I'm finally on the home stretch of getting a film finished!

I've finished the Goblin Trilogy.

I'm working on a load of new books, although not all at once. Requests to join the digital age with my Mind, Body, Spirit writing have slammed into fiction ideas and I've got my head in 7 books at a time as well as the films.

Why do I do this to myself?

On the up side, I was able to quit the day job a while back so I get some progress done every day.

Still busy as all hell. I've been on a 1500 word a day push to finish something which is nearly there. After Monday it's just clean-up on that one, but then I have to make up some film editing time and I still have a few chapters left to do for Power of the Dance, not to mention a list of books to write.

My social network has been suffering as a result of all this productivity, but at least I'm making progress on the project list. Gotta get one of these films out before even the YouTube trolls get bored with heckling.

Ack! I've been neglecting forums for a while as I've been writing a lot as well as working on film editing. This isn't going to change soon, but I'm just making the rounds on my forums and here I find that there have been some design changes. I'll need to get onto making an ID image as they've put it above the journal entries now.

Meanwhile there are 129 messages waiting for me, so please don't be offended if I don't comment on your artwork. I'm looking at it and appreciating it, but I just won't have time to leave a lot of comments.

So, to make a brief update, I'm nearing the end of the last of the Goblin trilogy. Ok I still have about 30,000 words to do, but all the build up is moving towards climax now. I've also been making good progress on the cut for Old Blood, which I hope to have mostly done by Spring so I can start collecting voiceovers and keep a New Year's resolution to have this one released by Christmas 2013. Graveyard Shift is still making progress as well, but it's going to take longer to fix problems caused by amateur mistakes. It will get finmished though, and I even have a recent new helper for some of the frame by frame corrections.

Meanwhile, I put all my e-books on sale for Christmas for $2.99 and then decided to continue the sale through January. They can be found on Amazon, Smashwords, Kobo (where it is slightly cheaper), Barnes & Noble and all the usual plaes. I think iTunes has most of them.

The Goblin Series consists of;
Dance of the Goblins
Demoniac Dance
and coming soon, Power of the Dance.

My Steampunk novel The Wake of the Dragon is also included in the sale.

I hope everyone had a great holiday and will have a very Happy New Year!

Look left, the bookcover for my most recent release, The Wake of the Dragon is featured. This one is available at all the usual places like Amazon www.amazon.com/The-Wake-Dragon… Barnes & Noble www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-w… and Kobo.  www.kobobooks.com/search/searc…

But for July, it is half price at Smashwords www.smashwords.com/books/view/… coupon SSW50.

"No sane airshipman will fly near a storm, but the cover of storm edge offers effective concealment for airship pirates who can strike quickly from above before anyone knows a ship is near. With the protection of Aide, the goddess of air travel, one airship defies the elements to seek fortune for the rag tag aerialists who make up the pirate crew.

The elements are the least of their problems when they find themselves saddled with an airsick clerk, a crewmember suspected of working for the East India Company and a love sick farm girl whose headstrong misconceptions compel her to seek adventure where no decent woman would wander unescorted.

Battling businessmen, mechanoids and villagers armed with torches and pitchforks, Captain Bonny must decide who to trust, and if the only rational course of action is one of apparent madness."

Book trailer will be available very soon, come along for the adventure.