The Fox Bard: Love Bytes Reviews.

I got a review from Love Bytes, an LGBTQ Book Review site. Here's the link below.

http://lovebytesreviews.com/2019/11/23/author-request-month-review-the-fox-bard-jobe-paracleus-1-by-courtney-bowen/

Tarn & Beck: The Dinner Party

I just published 'Tarn & Beck: The Dinner Party', Part Nine of the Tarn & Beck series. It's been a little difficult working on it.

I started it out as a Sherlock Holmes story from first perspective, my first time seriously using first perspective for a story. After working with first perspective, it's not my favorite narrative style, as I prefer third perspective.

I kept at it, though, even as the story turned out to be shorter than expected. I decided to continue on working in first perspective, though, expanding the story by adding in another story idea that I'd planned to try out.

The Dinner Party is the second story, and I had a notion about it before. Most of my Tarn and Beck story ideas, I've listed them out as notions I wanted to try, narrative tropes I wanted to experiment with.

Some I've held onto for years, trying to figure out which order I might portray them in. I've also shifted a few of these story ideas around, as Martin and Patricia and Eric the Relic Collector and his crew have appeared.

So some Tarn & Beck story ideas are actually going to be played out, hopefully, by these other characters. I've been working on the Sherlock Holmes story and the Dinner Party story for months now, even though it's a novella.

While I wrote, finished, and published several other novels and stories, I had this one on the back burner. I kept coming back to it, ever since I finished The Unicorn Foil in January, though it's difficult, not just in narrative style, but in subject matter, too.

I was trying out different approaches and genres in this story, and then I got distracted by other story ideas and novels. Since April or May, I've written two books under a pseudonym involving guys, and published them. Those two books have been more successful than my other books.

So it hasn't been a good year for Tarn & Beck. I'm not going to write out a Christmas Tales for them this year, as there isn't enough time left. I rushed a little to get this out before Halloween and I need a short break from Tarn & Beck.

I've got other ideas I want to work on, like a Larkin story that's a sequel to The Fairy Godmother's Daughter, sequels to my pseudonym books, a sequel to Wander-land and Survivors of Corrica.

I want to work on Arria, but that's up in the air still. I'll probably do more Tarn & Beck sometime next year.

But I'm also considering that maybe I'll finish up the Tarn & Beck series, maybe in a few more stories, or one or two. I could move some story ideas around to other characters, and maybe start a new story in that fantasy setting. Hopefully something will come up.

Thanks for reading.

Quarter-finalist

Just a quick announcement, I'm a quarter-finalist in the 2019 Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition with 'The Tiger of Light', basically an adaptation of The Legends of Arria, Books 1-4, or what used to be The Knights of Arria when it was just one book.

Hopefully I might be able to republish all of those books on my own once more if things work out. Fingers crossed.

Check out my other books, including The Fay Island, the third and possibly last (?) Jobe & Paracleus book, unless I could squeeze out a fourth and fifth book farther down the line. Depends on what happens with the other series.

I've also got Survivors of Corrica, the Corrica prequel that takes place centuries before the main series. That might develop into a series as well with the ancient Arria chronicles, legends, and Knights, not to mention all of the creatures and monsters that could be developed there.

I've also got ideas for the Rulers of Wander-land prequel. I need to work on that. There's another novel I'm almost finished writing, but I'm not sure if I should publish it under my name or not.

It might be a pseudonym. It's got guys, if you know what I mean, and nothing major, but not sure if I should use my name. Might be better with a different name if my name's not great for getting an audience.

Also I started a Tarn & Beck story with Sherlock Holmes theme. It's different from my other Tarn & Beck stories. Alternating first person perspectives, for one, and it's two stories for one. I need to finish that up as well. The novel distracted me.

So, quick question for anyone who comments: should I publish novel under my name or pseudonym? Last call.

What should I work on next?

I posted this on my Patreon page, but just curious to know what readers might be interested in checking out next. I've been working on that Corrica prequel, and I'm about a third or a quarter of the way through there. But I'm also looking ahead at potential projects, and wondering what I should launch or maybe get started on in the near feature. Here are the projects on my to-do list, and what are your suggestions on what I should start first. Tarn & Beck/Sherlock Holmes pastiche Jobe & Paracleus sequel Velmella & Liana book Rulers of Wander-land sequel Another fairy-tale adaptation Legends of Arria sequel Random idea I can't create a poll on here, so leave a comment below. Thanks.

I've got a Patreon page

Hello there, just wanted to post that I've got a Patreon page now with content available on there.

https://www.patreon.com/courtneybowen

It'll be the home of character posts, author notes, polls, behind the scenes and more. Hopefully it'll be good.