Chaotic Array

So. I went to a Journey concert the other day. It's official: my concert virginity is gone. I have officially been indoctrinated into the world of live-shows and sweaty crowds and overpriced booze. What did the Journey concert look like? Well, picture this: me, chubby, sweaty, sandwhiched between my mother - a short Greek woman with long black hair and glasses, who looks like she could be a kindly witch - and my father - a tall, scrawny man-child with ape hands and Angus Young hair - clutching onto my overpriced concert beer for dear life while, in the forefront, a band that was supposed to be Journey but was most decidedly not tried -and mostly failed- to engage the crowd of ten-thousand that sprawled before them. It was a hot damn mess. In case you didn't know, several of the original members of Journey have come and gone, and the band that was once fantastic and catchy is mostly, well, incoherent... Maybe it was the heat, or the five and a half beers, or the shitty aco...

So, remember how the last few days I've been teasing you guys about some new Lilac news? Well, I'm finally ready to share! THERE'S A FOURTH LILAC STORY COMING OUT! It’s been one year since Lilac Xia Jones defeated the goddess Allora and reclaimed the Sapphire Blade. And one year since the ghost of her great grandmother vanished without a trace. The now seventeen year-old Lilac is beginning to wonder. About why the paranormal has always been drawn to the women of her family... About what could have made a spirit as strong as Jingfei vanish without a trace... As Lilac attempts to distance herself from her increasingly complicated personal life by searching for Jingfei’s spirit, she begins to realize that she’s never been as safe in the world of the supernatural as she thought she was, and that a dark entity may be watching her every move. And now, unless Lilac can help it, the darkness might begin to claim the ones she loves, too. Set in the year between ...

So I know I teased you guys and said you would have to wait until next week for the omnibus cover and for some news, but hey, GOOD NEWS EVERYONE: You actually only have to wait for the news. The cover was finished early and is literally, BEAUTIFUL, so since I love sharing pretty pictures and don't want to wait, HERE is the new cover for the omnibus of TLJA! AHHH Lilac is legit look goals, is she not? So there you have it: omnibus cover! As for the news, which is very, very, very exciting - you still have to wait. See you in a few days!

Well. It's officially two am. I swear, I thought it was like, 11:30. That was like, two minutes ago! How is it two in the morning already? I don't know. But I do know that this happens to me way too often... I have a lot  of bad habits. You know, I'm constantly telling myself to do things better, like Oliver, don't drink soda, drink water - soda will just give you heartburn and a breakout, you know  it will. Or, Ok, Ollie. Today, you need to write at least four thousand words. Walk in the park, no big deal, you just have to stay fo- wait. What are you doing? OLIVER. PUT DOWN THE CONTROLLER. OLIVER DO NOT OPEN NETFLIX YOU NEED TO WRI- well. Too late now... I literally know that I'm going to regret doing something, but I do it anyway. I'm a lazy slug. And tomorrow, when I have to drag myself out of bed and write thousands of words, and then shower and make coffee and join the world as a functioning human being, I will regret staying up this late. As it is righ...

So... I'm going to a Journey concert! I just found out the other day that my Dad won Journey tickets in the sand sculpture competition he won this week, so when the Journey concert in Moncton arrives, we're gonna be there! I'm really nervous, since I've never been to a concert before, but also very excited that for the rest of my life I'll be able to tell anyone who asks that I lost my concert virginity to Journey. So, yeah. That's kind of amazing.

So, today I have some Apollo Blake news! What has my illustrious alter ego been up to lately, you ask? Well, he/I redesigned the covers for the Lilac Jones Adventures! The new designs show Lilac herself in all her glory, and I'm sooo in love with them! The new ebook editions will go live on Amazon in a few days, once the stories themselves get a new round of edits (mostly just corrected italics, formatting mistakes, and another round of line edits) although the omnibus cover won't be revealed until next week, and ditto for that going live itself! I'll have some more Lilac news then, but for now, just have some beautiful covers! AHHH! Aren't they great? I love the purple and the illustrations that accompany each story, and I'm more than excited to re-release the stories with these new designs. I'll be back tomorrow with a more regular, rant-y, in-the-life kind of post, and then I'll be posting the new omnibus cover along with a surprising bit of se...

Today's - post title from  Off To The Races  by Lana Del Rey* So, I'm working on a bunch of new stuff right now, and I don't want to say too much about it because it's all in the early stages, but the two things I can talk about are Blood of Midnight and Shadows. Blood of Midnight is the first novel in a duology about vampires, called the Evernight Falling Duet, and right now I'm working on the first rounds of edits. It's tough, because I have to add in not just several new scenes but several new chapters, and there's a good chunk near the end of the novel that needs to be rewritten entirely as well. Shadows is a New Adult novella, and it's the first in a series about witches called Charmers living in Seattle. It's dark and gritty and I'm just drafting it right now, but I love it. The problem is, my brother has been coming home a lot lately, and since his room is right below mine I can't stay up all night or I'll keep him ...

Title from the song ' God? ' by the Dodos. I can't believe it's been more than half a year without me posting on this blog. I always say I'll post more and then I never do. I'm problematic like that. I do post everyday on Tumblr though, so follow me there to keep up with me. So much has changed in the past few months it's hard to know where to start... Firstly, it's summer now. Summer is my least favourite season, but that isn't to say I don't love it. I miss the snow drifts and the world of green and white winter brings, ice clinging to the evergreens in a world of silence... but summer has its own magic. The stream behind the house is gurgling, rushing over the rocks, and wild flowers have sprouted everywhere. Wild strawberries are growing behind the double garage, and they're so sweet they're sour. They burst into juice on my tongue and the strength of the flavour makes me wince even as I reach to pick another. I can feel the ene...