Update on Hidden in Plain Sight: Nearing the Ready Date!

The story of how George & Julie spent four years (more-or-less) is soon going to be open to the public for all to see! Another character makes a cameo close to the end (brownie points if you catch it), so that's something to look out for as well. Assuming everything goes smoothly, it should be ready for purchase from the Kobo Ebook Store.

George and Julie, now on the run from her "father", Nasovar, for four years, brings the WitSec chapter of their life to a close after making an impact elsewhere in the world first.

I'm not sure if I've said it before on here or not, but I've wanted to write a story in the WitSec genre for years now, and it's finally happened- one that I'm actually proud of. The others are probably going to go into an archive of some kind that won't be opened back up for reading until the day comes when I have grand kids that pester me about ideas I had and things I tried to do when I was younger.

Maybe, maybe not.

Anyway, Hidden in Plain Sight has a second reason for existing, and that reason is the same as another work I have elsewhere (the nature of the work makes me uncomfortable, but everything else about it turned out great for developing Penelope's world. Net win, end of story.), which is to be a character development thing. I do intend on continuing the George & Julie series, although some things in Hidden in Plain Sight are going to be different in future George & Julie novellas (nothing big, just minor details and maybe a couple of name changes).

I'll go ahead and share a few details that are staying:

1. Ren Ya Dang (Julie's favorite author) is a self-insert. (The name literally translates to Person Adam)
2. Julie is more a part of George's family than her own
3. Julie's ability to speak Japanese and read Old English
4. George's abilities in music, his original career, and fluency in Middle English
5. George's uncle being (almost) always on vacation somewhere
6. Julie's feelings about why she wants to be a teacher

I don't know that everything in this novella was wrapped up in a nice-enough bow at the end, but that wasn't the point (even if it was the final iteration of George & Julie). The point is that no matter who you are, what you say, or where you go, there's a niche to carve out in the world that is yours and yours alone. Life doesn't always end situations with "And they lived happily ever after… the end", no. Sometimes, we're left to sift through the nitty and gritty ourselves, or to put someone else in charge of something.

Now that I've yammered on for this long (and it's 2:49 AM), I'm planning on having the book released around May 25, as well as doing an immersive experience that gets posted here and on Thefacebook sometime in the coming months, though I can't really say much for the latter apart from that I want to do it at some point as nothing is set into stone (I literally only had the idea the other night), but I'd like to see how this one turns out with other people. Hopefully, you guys have as much fun reading it as I had writing it.