Nine months and $15,000 poorer, having made exactly $8.84 from the sales of OTORONGO, it's time to move on. Personally, I believe it to be the best book ever written, but that's neither here nor there.

My next project is The Perfect Dream, first book in the Let Me Not Mar That Perfect Dream series that starts with a group of four teenagers having a summer love affair together and moves on to a past life as sex slaves in Roman times. The big news is I've splurged on a front and back cover by one of my favorite artists, Chris Dyer. The cover design is not finalized, but here are the two images I'm going to use.

Should be instructive applying the lessons learned from dealing with iUniverse to this new project. The Perfect Dream is short and I sure hope it's sweet. Most of the remainder of the series, of which which I've completed the first draft and part of the second, is set in the ancient Roman world of sex slaves, the invasion of Britain, and carryings on in ancient Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. The Perfect Dream is a kind of extended prologue, where the characters gradually come to realize that they've been together before in previous lifetmes.

Presently there's no way for folks to check it out, but I suppose I'll be coming to that.

Meanwhile, I'm liking how it's shaping up.