Sapphire Verdict Check-in
While I intended for this week to feature a more in depth featurette into how in the world I built this website from scratch and ALL the hard work that went into it, such a blog post requires an immense amount of hard work in its own right. Instead, I would rather like to touch on a subject I care a lot about, obviously, and that would be the Sapphire Verdict! For almost ten years, I’ve been working on what was SUPPOSED to have been a rather quick right. Life happened of course and that didn’t happen, but, here we are at last! The Sapphire Verdict is fully done and now the process of seeking publication has started. While it’s a great relief to be this far, it’s also… stressful. I feel like a lot of my hard work is now effectively out of my hands and there’s little else I can do except to sit back and see if anyone else loves my story as much as I do. While nerve-wracking beyond measure, it is still an exciting and promising time, and since everyone keeps telling me my story is great, I have to at least convince myself that I might be able to make a total stranger believe that as well.
Anyway, on to more exciting things! As of now, the website has been rounded out with some more fun sections such as the Sapphire universe page and all of the entries within it about aspects of my universe! These are meant to be supplemental to the story and help clarify some of the concepts contained within it for those who have yet to read it as well as cover some of the characters that will be encountered in the story. Although… that James Stockton guy. He isn’t in the first one? Is he? I wonder where he’ll show up and what role he’ll end up playing. I’m sure it’ll be something totally harmless and positive! Right? Right? …right?
Additionally, you may notice there are still two slots within short stories that are empty. These are not here just as simple placeholders, and while I could let them loose anytime I want… that would spoil the fun! To make things interesting though, I can at least reveal that one of them is almost done decrypting. Hand of Vengeance will be the next story to be decrypted, and from what has been revealed so far, it appears to involve General Vargoth and a hapless group of UEC soldiers caught under his blazing gaze. I can only begin to imagine how that will go given the good General’s hatred for humans. I’m sure no one will be harmed in the making of this short story… probably… not…
For this week, that’s all I have the mental capacity to cover. I’m tired and all this stress is killing me. That being said, I do want to make a more in depth blogpost, as promised, so expect something on the creation of the website soon. For now, that’s all I have, but one parting word. For all the agents I’ve looked at that used squarespace to make your submission portals, UPDATE YOUR FAVICONS!