In the meantime...

While we wait for Ashley's amazing powers of textual polishing, I thought I'd share something with you guys: the first act of the next book, which is unrelated to Blackjack.

It's a fun little book that is inspired by the Indiana Jones movies and the Lara Croft and Uncharted video games. It's my own spin on the subject, and I have a few solid ideas for ongoing stories to tell. I basically wanted to find real archeological and historical relics of significance, things no one had ever written about before, and see what ideas I could come up with.

First off is Heart of the Jungle. I've been working on it, on and off, for almost six months now and I finally have a real good concept to work with, and a bunch of characters that keep calling me to the computer. I posted the cover on facebook a few weeks back, but I've just completed the entire first act of the thing and after a quick read, it looks pretty decent.

So, as a thank you for your patience, I'd like to post it for your review. It's rough, rougher than the versions of Wayward that are out there. I basically wrote it, and gave it a quick read, so it's lacking my editor Josh's polish. Believe me, he makes things so much better. In addition, a lot of the final plot kind of came to me as I was writing it. The final version will need the plot backtracked, several new scenes and a lot of transitions to make the whole thing work. I also want to do a header chapter intro, that gives you the place and time of the scene to come. 

I know it's rough, but if you guys want to take a look at the 80-something page first act, I'd love to put it up (no charge, of course). It'd be my way of apologizing for the delay.

Let me know what you think.

Heart of the Jungle - act one (first draft edit)

http://freepdfhosting.com/b58113b2eb.pdf