As much as I enjoy the writing process, I'd be less than honest if I said that "Wake of the Lake Monster" would not be my last novel. The truth of it is, I need to release the 3rd edition of "Shadow of the Thunderbird", to silence the nitpickers who have yet to realize that small publishing houses don't have the massive resources available to big houses. By the time I release "Wake of the Lake Monster" later this year, I will have devoted over half a million words to the subject of cryptozoological fiction. I am very proud over the stir they have caused in academic and literary circles. The science is correct, and the stories are full of memorable scenes and characters. What I intend to do is to approach an agent about representing the complete trilogy, and move up to the world of mass fiction. I know that I am up to the challenge. I have other tales I want to tell, but to devote so much time for so little money in a smaller press has been defeating. I am grateful to those who read and enjoy my novels, and take the time to tell me so. Cryptofiction is a marginal genre at best, with a select but small audience. Occasionally, a big name will release a novel incorporating an animal out of place or time, but this is the exception rather than the rule. It is difficult to spend a year or more researching or writing a project, when the rewards are more personal than monetary. I am at a stage in my life where I have to do what matters, rather than what appeals. Not many authors have accomplished a third major release without some huge paycheck waiting at the end, but I will have completed the arc of stories. Next, I will want to put them out to see who may have an even greater interest in them. I feel that I am uniquely positioned to take advantage of having not one but three provened manuscripts. I would love nothing more than to write for the rest of my life, but the rub is that it has to pay for itself to be the substantial part of my life it has been the past five years. I use this blog to tell the truth about what I have experienced, and so it is this evening. I sit and write 5,000 word chapters in a single two hour sitting. I can create the imagery, and keep the story flowing. All I am looking for is the proper venue in which to continue that aspiration. I have worked hard for it, and I believe it will happen. When it does, I'll let you know. Until then, keep the faith and continue the journey with me.