No, I have not begun the story, though I have been putting notes together for it for a while. Originally, I had intended for the sequel to Sunset of Furmankind to be called Bonestell of Furmankind, but I have since decided to get away from that naming convention and I've officially retitled that upcoming story Second Chance (after the name of the colony). Thanks again to Quantel Eastland for suggesting the "Second Chance" label for the colony and colonists - the name lives on! While off on holiday today, I spent some time adding new material to one of my old stories whilst the laundry was washing and drying and Eileen was off to work. I know most of my readers probably have no interest in my oldest story, Treasure Hunt, since it has no anthropomorphic characters in it, but as I've mentioned from time to time, I've long had a plan to completely re-write the opening chapters to the story from scratch. It's been well over a year since the last time I did anything substantial to this particular story, but since I am in between projects right now and needed an outlet for my creativity, I chose to work on this old tale some. I still have 2½ chapters to re-write before I can call it done, though I'm not putting it on any kind of scheduled timetable to do this. For today, it was simply some good time well spent on it, though it may be a while before I even get back to where I left off this time. The revised chapters of Sunset of Furmankind have been uploaded to the website and the manuscript is available through Lulu Press as a softcover book. At long last, the Furmankind project has reached its conclusion. Thanks for reading, Friends! The Lulu Press edition of Sunset of Furmankind has been uploaded and is ready for purchase for those who might be interested in owning a printed version of the story. However, the new edits to the story have not yet been uploaded to this website, but sometime over the next few evenings, I will start posting the new chapters online. Once upon a time... the first novel-length story I wrote was a space opera called "Treasure Hunt" (also sometimes called 'Flight of the Zephyr'). It had no anthropomorphic characters, instead having an esper and a telepath who take a trip across the stars on a ship with a mutinous crew. This has long been tagged as The Neverending Edit, since I can't seem to stop changing things every time I read back through it (yeah, kinda like George Lucas and Star Wars). You may or may not have read the original story when it used to be posted on Dennier.com, but I've never really been satisfied with the opening of the story and have long wanted to completely rewrite those first chapters. No, I don't mean to go back and edit them, I mean to totally dump the original chapters and write them from scratch with different scenes, reactions and attitudes. Over the years, I have rewritten the first two of those chapters, but the other three have sat dormant for ages -- until now. Before I sit down with Sunset for my big read through, I have resumed work on Treasure Hunt once again. However, once that's finally finished, I am hesitant about posting the story here on this site. As mentioned, it has no anthropomorphic characters, so it really doesn't match the rest of the tales I have archived here on this site, so I may make the finished tale available only via another Lulu Press paperback. Once TH is finally finished, my plans are to resume work on Sunset and then I have another Blue Horizon story I've started that will need to be completed before I try my pen at something else altogether. The final chapter of Sunset of Furmankind has been posted to the library. I began this story in early October 2008, so with its completion tonight, it has taken me almost three full years to write this tale. I want you to know that I greatly appreciate all the kind words and encouragement expressed to me during this time. There were moments when I felt like shelving the entire project, only for someone's uplifting words to come along and ease me back into production. If not for those times, this tale may never have been written. I understand that it was probably overlong in places, but everything came together to tell the story I wanted to tell. I want to express a special Thank You to author James R. Lane, my gracious Beta Reader who helped me over rough areas and made suggestions and recommendations when something just didn't flow right. Thanks, Jim! "What's next?" you may ask. I plan to take a break to read a book I just picked up from the local library, and once I'm finished with that, I will be re-reading Sunset of Furmankind from the beginning, likely making corrections, edits and additions along the way. When the manuscript has been cleaned up a bit, I will format it for a Lulu Press publication. Whether or not anyone else wishes a physical book of this tale to hold in his or her hands, I want one for my own library, so they will be made available through my bookstore. Thanks for coming along for the ride, my friends. Good night. Working through the weekend, the archive website is almost all in place now. The only section I still have left to copy, paste and format into its new home is Jeff's Born of Heroes chapters, and I am hoping to have those finished within the next day or two (depending upon how much time I have to work on it). Once those forty-three chapters are in place, I can resume work on the final chapters of Sunset of Furmankind. Sunset of Furmankind, Blue Horizon, Blue Horizon: 1261, Hoenix, a few miscellaneous stories and the three tales written by our fans have all been transferred to the new Dennier archive site. There's still a month and a half until the domain for dennier.com expires, but with this site up and running, all new material will be displayed here instead of there. Welcome, my friends. Little by little, I'm making progress getting things set up at the new site. All of the previously completed Sunset of Furmankind chapters are online, as are all of the primary Blue Horizon stories. I still have Hoenix and Blue Horizon: 1261 left to do, as well as Jeff Karamales' Born of Heroes. Due to numerous requests that I establish an archive for my stories before my DENNIER.COM domain and my webhosting account both expire on October 1, I am in the process of relocating everything to a new site I have established with Weebly.Com. It’s a long and slow process (with a lot of cutting and pasting of text), but I’m making headway little by little. I am putting up the Sunset of Furmankind pages first, since that’s my current work-in-progress story, and then I will see what I can do about getting the Blue Horizon and Hoenix pages set up afterward as time permits. Since I am also in the process of writing the final chapters of Sunset, it may take me the full time until October to get the entire archive up and running. I already have the bulk of template pages in place, so most of what’s left is the actual placement of the text of numerous stories and chapters into them. In the time that’s left for DENNIER.COM, I will be placing redirect messages for those who might visit the domain between now and October who may not actually visit my blog or message board. |
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