In the spirit of pretending to be a real author, I’ve gone ahead and made myself a Facebook Author page. This will host anything and everything related to me as a writer, including updates and information about progress on both The Redemption of Erâth and A Gothic Symphony.
It would make me immensely happy if you gave it a quick visit – it will help me pretend that people are interested in my writing!
http://facebook.com/chrisnorthwrites
Check it out!
Satis 2012
If he hadn’t known better, he would have thought it was a setup. Considering where things ended up leading, it might as well have been. All of it, just to meet that one girl.
Marlon was crazy. He owned a huge apartment in the expensive part of the city, and no one really knew where he got the money; he worked at a divorce attorney office, the kind that don’t require a spouse’s signature. He had first met Marlon when he still worked at the big law firm, and he’d fallen in with him right away – the guy knew how to throw a party.
He never quite figured out why Marlon left; something to do with his boss, who Marlon had never really liked. In his mind, that didn’t really justify leaving a cushy job with an almost infinite upward path for a downtown crap shack that got people out of your life for $300. There was no way he was making any decent money there, even if they kept things off the books (which was pretty likely). It didn’t change a thing; he’d kept the apartment, the expensive TV and white leather couches, and he still threw mad parties. […]
Read the complete chapter here.
Jumping guns being a favorite pastime of mine, I decided to try my hand at designing a simple, basic cover for Book One: Beginnings. I’m no artist, though I do understand basic design, so all I’m really left with is fooling around with photos and fonts.
The design and fonts are based on the wonderful banner destinare made for this site some time ago – I couldn’t replicate the exact font she used, but I was able to find a commercially usable font that was similar (I’d still like that original one, you!).
Anyway – it’s not much, and I very much would like a professionally illustrated cover before I go genuinely live with this (and don’t worry, that won’t be for some time – I still need to edit and proof the damn thing!), but for now it makes me feel that much closer to a real, live book!
Anyway…what do you think?
Satis Writes 