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The Field is on promotion on Amazon.com and will be a free download ending on Friday, December 19th.

Field Proto Cover

Get it here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Field-John-Silver-ebook/dp/B00QVYW91W/ref=zg_bs_158592011_f_37

December 15, 2014 Posted by | Books, Thrillers, Writing, Writing Fiction | , , | Leave a comment

The Field

The Field was released on Amazon.com as a Kindle book last night. I hardly ever reveal what a character in the book actually looks like or what my mental image of a character is, but this is an exception. A little dog named Everett is a big supporting character in the book and I modeled him after our rescue dog, Hank. Not to give much away, he has it pretty rough in the book.

Hankie (1 of 1)

Check out The Field here: http://www.amazon.com/Field-John-Silver-ebook/dp/B00QVYW91W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418422168&sr=8-1&keywords=the+field+john+silver

Field Proto Cover

December 12, 2014 Posted by | Books, Creative Process, On Writing, Rescue Dogs, Writing, Writing Fiction | , , | Leave a comment

The Field Update

t’s been a long time since I’ve posted on this blog. I’ve been working on The Field for about a year now, a lot longer than any other book I’ve written. This is a tough one. It’s at about 85,000 words and a working draft is heading to the beta readers next month with the word count of around 90,000.

Field Proto Cover

This is one of those books that could go on and on like a Stephen King tome but that goes against the way I like to write. I like to write short novels a person can finish reading in a matter of hours, but I get consistent complaints that my books are too short. This time I’m going to take the advice of my beta readers and expand it to around 120,000 words if they believe it should be longer. Please let me know if you would consider being a beta reader on this or future books. 

Regardless of length, the book will be out by December 2014 at the latest.

September 20, 2014 Posted by | Books, Creative Process, On Writing, Tech thrillers, Thrillers, Writing, Writing Fiction | , , , | Leave a comment

The Field

Here’s the final cover for The Field.

Field Proto Cover

The first draft of the outline/screenplay for The Field is complete and I’m about 1000 words into the first draft of the novel. Plan on getting it out by the end of the year.

July 16, 2013 Posted by | Books, Creative Process, News, On Writing, Writing, Writing Fiction | , , , | Leave a comment