Can you be grateful for demons? Of course you can! Have you read my books? Whether they give you superpowers or simply push you toward self-realization and empowerment by kicking you around the dungeons of an ancient Japanese castle, demons deserve our gratitude too.
So, I’ve been sorely remiss in posting an update lately.
First off, so you know, I am working on book 3 of The Ghost and the Mask. Yes, I still am. I did, however, take a break from it and, until this past week, had not written a word in a few months. As I am in grad school now, my focus has been on that, and as much as I had hoped to, I just could not find the time to squeeze in anything on TGatM. Throw a toddler and a preschooler into the mix (not just anyone’s mind you, but mine) and my time melts away like a dispatched demon back to the Hell plane.
BUT… I am on break from school at the moment, and I am focusing my time on Akio and Masami and Miyahara and Yoshio again. I’m making a push to get many many many words written before I am sequestered in the school dungeon once more.
I don’t mean to make grad school sound awful. It is not. It is actually great. I am writing ANOTHER book for that, and I “have to” read a bunch of books.
Writing and reading, such unreasonable punishment. Might as well make me eat dark chocolate and drink a nice craft ale too.
But for now, the new novel/series/thesis can wait. It’s time to close some distance to the end of book 3 in TGatM. And I will tell you, I am loving spending some time with the above mentioned crew once more. I really missed those guys. I didn’t realize how much until I got back to it.
Lastly, I just want to say how grateful I am for those of you who are sticking with me on this. I do not pump out a new book every month like some authors. It’s just not how I work. But the series will be completed. And I hope you think it’s worth the wait.
Speaking of gratitude, for those of you in the USA, and everywhere really, but in the Thanksgiving spirit, I want to mention the importance of family, and I don’t mean blood family, which can often cause more stress and sadness than you deserve, but as in found family, those people whom life has flung together due to circumstance or shared passion or whatever reason. In The Ghost and the Mask, none of my four main characters are very close (if at all) to actual blood family, but they have found each other, and that found family is often so much more than blood family could ever be. Although my characters may not fully realize it yet, it is what is building. I wish you that kind of family. If you’ve found it, embrace it. If you’re still waiting, look around you, maybe it’s already there. If not, be patient, be open, be you. It will come.
Happy Thanksgiving. Check in soon.
Tristram Lowe 