STEVE BENTON

After yesterday's disappointing result with Portugal, we decided to write some more. And we wrote a very dark chapter (always need dark chapters in dystopian novels) Anyway, it's all looking great!

Book #2 is coming along strong. Great storyline and all fans will be super-happy. Have a great rest of your Sunday! SK

LOLA is cruising along at warp - erm... side space carrier current velocity! The FIFA World Cup has unleashed a new flood of creativity within my brain (no, the book does not have soccer in it). Anyway, I'll try to write in the blog a bit more. Just been busy getting stuff prepped with my day job - Sprint has over 100 ways to build cell sites, so we have to make database configs for each individual site type, which requires a good 12 hours of work - do the math, friends :) Till next time

Got back to writing on the follow-up to LOFP last night. LOLA (seriously, that is the acronym) will be way cool, and anyone who liked the first will definitely LOVE the second because it gets right down to meat and potatoes and doesn't spend 30% of copy detailing Max's universe. Been there, done that! Now time to move on and kick some major poto!

Each rejection from a Lit agent is simply one closer to getting picked up. Smile and forge ahead! #scifi #indieauthor — SK Benton (@AuthorSKBenton) June 9, 2014 You know, I just kinda came up with this one - I hope it wasn't a George Harrison moment where I heard something while I was asleep, and then went and plagiarized the living shit out of it. It just sounded right. As writers we throw our souls out on the street for people to either brush off and pick up, or viciously stomp. As I still send out queries to Lit agents I still get rejections, but it's not their fault - they have a job to do and they want/need to pick up someone they think will really sell, which translates to dollars in their own pockets. Will Max's world sell? Hell, I would like to think so - he just needs some repping and promo. Most of the rejection letters have been quite cordial - only one was a total ass, but maybe he was having a bad day. Or year. Or life. Who knows - whatever. So, to ...

So we started a new Twitter account Saturday. Following some good advice we are already up to over 300 followers, and are dutifully retweeting cool stuff from other people. It's all about micro-blogging, networking and maybe giving each other a hand.

@AuthorSKBenton is our new twitter account. Follow for info, freebies and sneak previews of Lives of Lost Angels