tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165318392011-07-28T10:36:50.160-04:00Welcome to my blog on writing, publishing and the world of cryptofiction and cryptozoology at large. Obviously, I am more of an expert on myself than the latest cryptid sighting, but don't let that make you a stranger. I will be posting the latest news and information about my novels, lectures and investigations in the field of hidden animals. Thank you for stopping by!Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-38887711256806729302009-07-22T21:40:00.011-04:002009-07-23T01:41:37.309-04:00

Has it really been a whole year since I posted my last blog entry? In a word, yes. And here's why. Since September of 2008, I have been head's down in the most ambitious, research intensive novel of my early career. I learned about art, European history, the Renaissance, anatomy, optics, philosophy, religion, astrology, pamistry, relics and reliquaries, and the end of the world. Especially, I

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-83492338369967823372008-08-26T19:21:00.005-04:002008-09-10T02:25:01.139-04:00

It has been a very long, very involved summer. I completed no less than two classic collections for my publishing venture, Trilogus Books. One is a two volume collection of all 15 of L. Frank Baum's "Wizard of Oz" books. I am proud to say that the pair outsell all other compilation sets combined, by a margin of two to one.I followed it up with an equally ambitious, 2 volume set of all the

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-25400946718011454022008-05-20T17:49:00.011-04:002008-05-22T17:05:17.376-04:00

Wow, has it really been 3 1/2 months since my last post? Well, if the date of my last entry is any indication. To be honest, I have been heads down and busy with so many projects that I haven't made the time. My apologies, to those of you who keep up with my doings through this online journal. I will try to be a tad more regular, in the future.Now, with that out of the way, what I have been up to

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-74529501824727637792008-02-08T21:55:00.000-05:002008-02-12T20:37:06.961-05:00

Have you ever heard the old saying that the only thing constant in the universe is change? Well, that seems to be especially true for me these days. As I ready the first offerings from my own publishing company, Trilogus Books, I am struck by how many windows are opening up for me even as doors are closing.I am amazed at the 6 year journey to bring "The Cryptids Trilogy" to print. It took a trip

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-92124579916724677942008-01-07T21:38:00.000-05:002008-01-09T21:52:44.531-05:00

I thought I would get a rousing start off on 2008 by making my first post in a couple of months. I have been very busy setting up not only my own imprint around Trilogus Enterprises LLC, but finalizing projects in the works to launch its initial publications under Trilogus Books.To that end, I have accomplished the following in the past month:Created, sized and laid out my cover designs,

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-50135368849404516402007-10-26T22:12:00.000-04:002007-10-26T22:54:44.288-04:00

Well, aside from a few comments by a best pal and reader who has been going through "Wake of the Lake Monster", "The Cryptids Trilogy" is done. I have made attempts to contact both publishers and agents, but I believe I am working backwards. Instead of being a somewhat talented but fairly unknown author (outside of my niche of cryptofiction) trying to get an agent to get a publisher, I am now

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-57137789146909402062007-09-25T23:05:00.000-04:002007-10-26T22:10:31.680-04:00

I have not posted to my blog in nearly two months to the day. I have been busy preparing my trilogy for republication under a new banner. "The Cryptids Trilogy", which consists of "Shadow of the Thunderbird", "Track of the Bigfoot" and "Wake of the Lake Monster", will be released in their entirety as the first titles for Cryptofiction.com.While I am counting down the obligatory 100 agents and 50

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-87518817619544993112007-07-28T21:18:00.000-04:002007-07-28T22:12:31.868-04:00

As of this date, I am no longer an author with a publishing house. Due to differences both creative and financial, I have decided to go it alone and look for a bigger, better arrangement. To that end, I have begun to contact publishers and query agents. I was told by pen pal, New York Times bestselling author James Rollins (Subterranean), that even he had to make fifty attempts before landing a

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-8053326458852152102007-06-09T22:42:00.000-04:002007-07-17T21:08:57.191-04:00

After 4 long years, I have finally completed the 5th and final draft of "Wake of the Lake Monster", the 3rd and final chapter in "The Cryptids Trilogy". The last words were penned as of this date. Although the title has been in place at least that long, it has been a long, long road to come back around to my first love.2003 was a wonderful year, with regards to the writing, as well as my

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-39183889529113525552007-05-20T02:55:00.000-04:002007-05-20T04:13:57.478-04:00

I normally wait for some great milestone, before I make a posting to my weblog. It's been nearly two months since I last made an addition, and thought now would be as good a time as any. Currently, "Shadow of the Thunderbird" is long finished, with a 3rd edition 40 pages longer than the original, making it by far and away the largest of my novels, to date."Track of the Bigfoot" is holding its own

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-24121131777020252392007-03-22T21:28:00.000-04:002007-03-22T22:11:58.726-04:00

Well, after 5 years and over a half million words, the time is finally here. Next week, I will turn over "Shadow of the Thunderbird" to be submitted for consideration of mass publication. My novels currently are produced in trade paperback, a high quality softcover edition.Should it be accepted, "The Cryptids Trilogy" titles will be produced as paperback books accessible at every newstand and

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-45306726927083087612007-03-03T21:37:00.000-05:002007-03-03T22:05:17.040-05:00

After nearly five years, I am proud to say that the third and final edition of my first novel, "Shadow of the Thunderbird", is complete. It is 40 pages longer, the basic story embeliished without changing any fact or detail. It suffered only from the nuances of editorial mishandling.It troubled me so much that I determined I would not promote my second novel, "Track od the Bigfoot", or complete

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-24501451172422007002007-02-25T23:10:00.000-05:002007-02-25T23:36:00.704-05:00

After 5 years, nearly to the day that I completed the first edition of "Shadow of the Thunderbird", the third and final has been finished. Now, all that remains is for me to place a very few additional points to round out the depiction of the site of the novel's climactic finale. I will then print out a copy, as has been my custom, and scan it for any obvious flaws.I feel that a terrible weight

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-15581747513920157992007-01-25T23:17:00.000-05:002007-01-25T23:44:55.841-05:00

On Friday, February 2nd 2007, I will send off the 3rd and final edition of my first novel, "Shadow of the Thunderbird". Without changing the story, I have filled in detail, corrected grammar and resolved any logical disconnects in adding nearly 40 pages to the manuscript. Unfortunately, financial matters and resuming a career took precedence and it has been very hard staring up again.The

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-1165847365628366442006-12-11T09:12:00.000-05:002006-12-11T10:01:13.556-05:00

It has been three months since I last posted anything to my blog. Alot has happened during that time, mostly with moving to jumpstart my writing career. As you may have read in my last post, work had taken precedence over writing for three years. I go by that time as it has been that long since I last published.This year, I created an audio book out of "The Chupacabra" and submitted it to an

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-1156178972342873102006-08-21T12:09:00.000-04:002006-08-30T16:15:33.653-04:00

I reached a saturation point, and sent the manuscript for "Wake of the Lake Monster" up to my editor, Billye McCarty. After an intensive 3 years of scrambling for contracts, trying to start a new business and create the software it would sell, the writing had to take a back seat for a while.I began "Wake" in December of 2004, while I was travelling on business. I picked it up in earnest in 2006,

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-1155437025565306042006-08-12T22:27:00.000-04:002006-08-12T22:49:51.706-04:00

On July 31st, 2006, I completed the 2nd draft of "Wake of the Lake Monster". Because it happened over a 3 year period, during which I had an exhaustive schedule to maintain, the writing process wore on me. I printed out the manuscript, at first thinking to go back over it myself, then thought better of it.I contacted Billye McCarty, my beloved editor in Oklahoma, and told her it was ready. I have

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-1149159743749218242006-06-01T06:34:00.000-04:002006-06-01T07:34:57.436-04:00

On Wednesday, May 31st 2004, I completed the 1st draft of "Wake of the Lake Monster". It's been three years since I published "Track of the Bigfoot" and four since I released "Shadow of the Thunderbird".I beleieve it is true what they say, that the third novel is the toughest to write. By that time, you have settled into a routine, and either met your wildest expectations, or simply decided you

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-1148354556067299632006-05-22T22:54:00.000-04:002006-05-22T23:22:36.103-04:00

I have written at least 12 chapters since returning from the Altamaha River in March. The story has taken on a life of its own, and the quest for the Altamaha-ha has been a fruitful one. Only 2 or 3 chapters remain in the 1st draft.The second will take about a month to complete, as I will only be fleshing out characters and adding the historical and technical information that provide the science

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-1146793203022865582006-05-04T21:23:00.000-04:002006-05-04T21:41:54.966-04:00

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

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-1142390234457650972006-03-14T21:31:00.000-05:002006-03-14T21:37:14.476-05:00

I spent four days at coastal Georgia in the Altamaha River area of Darien, Jessup, and surrounding communities. It was a real adventure, as a friend and I travelled a thousand miles in a jeep along the backroads that lined the second largest river basin system East of the Mississippi.It greatly resembles the Mississippi, in much of its flora and fauna. I saw wild boar, coyotes, herons, seagulls

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-1134087274735122622005-12-08T18:51:00.000-05:002005-12-08T19:22:35.266-05:00

Well, my 3rd novel is now pouring out of me. I receive images and dialogue, unbidden but finally, very welcome. Ian McQuade is growing as an individual, anthropologist and cryptozoologist. He is becoming something that he never realized his experiences in the pursuit of hidden animals would make him.I appreciate you for making this journey with me. The "Cryptids Trilogy" will come to a conclusion

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-1132879321058075732005-11-24T19:19:00.000-05:002005-11-24T19:49:23.290-05:00

I received a huge boost to my writing motivation this week. I heard from old friend Fred Scheeren, who has been phenomenal in support of my writing. Above anyone else, he has understood the longest the aim of my writing - to entertain while getting the science of unknown species right.I use the scientific method, and find a creature that is supposedly extinct, but whose continued existence would

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-1131508555060167202005-11-08T22:44:00.000-05:002005-11-08T23:08:33.250-05:00

I told myself to be honest in the blog, sometimes it may appear brutally so. There are so many ups and downs to writing and publishing. It's more like making a movis, wherein you really don't know what you have until people view your work without you.Tomorrow, I give my first presentation of the software package I created, along with my three partners. I am alittle unnerved, but only slightly. 18

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-1130270646277670452005-10-25T15:42:00.000-04:002005-10-25T16:04:06.283-04:00

I am at work on the outline for a new novel, which will take my love of history's mysteries in a new and unusual direction. I have come across a coincidental set of events joining all of the world's great religions, and the steps taken in the first days of the Dark Ages to break that link, forever.As much as I enjoy cryptofiction, and have devoted my first three novels to it, it has not provened

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-1129861221094079042005-10-20T21:59:00.000-04:002005-10-25T16:07:18.726-04:00

I have finally finished the third chapter to "Wake of the Lake Monster". It's hard to really get started again. I have also gathered and sorted my research, adding copious notes on the Altamaha River and the Nahanni Valley.My heart is so full with the emotions that will be rife in the story, because it has paralled my life for the past 4 years. The third book in "The Cryptids Trilogy" is drawing

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16531839.post-1128994048958493432005-10-10T21:10:00.000-04:002005-10-10T21:27:28.966-04:00

Well, it's been two years since I published "Track of the Bigfoot", volume two of "The Cryptids Trilogy". Alot has happened since I left the road for good, including starting what is becoming the foundation for my own successful software company.Writing is first and foremost my greatest aspiration, but domestic balance and financial buoyancy are strong motivators, as well. "Shadow of the

Dallas Tannernoreply@blogger.com1