Here's the progress on the three books so far.
My Life Story. This book is not being written to publish. Before she died, my wife asked me to write down for my sons, the who, what, why, and where their father became who he was, before they were born. Memoirs are based on lies, whether done by historians, or the individuals themselves recalling their actions in the best light. Which is why I prefer flawed life stories. My sons will understand, I tell all. Truth depends on the writer-editor of a story written with their perspective. I don't name names, I prefer to stick with my inaccurate memories. The story is so clear to the narrative, but not entirely the truth. Which is why when telling a story someone else, who was there, interrupts with corrections. I believe pronouns are better for telling stories than a tombstone cemetery alignment of ' I 's'; which are insufferable to read. My editing will eliminate any relation complaining I insulted or defamed some honored dead relative of theirs. As I have found out, every saint has an inner bastard nagging constantly at them. I begin the book the day I boarded the bus to go to O;Hare in Chicago to begin my Marine Corps adventure. Why not? As I write, the characters I met are oozing out of my keys onto the blank computer Word document. I'm just getting to Boot Camp, at night, shocked-shitless, at civilian semi-attention before receiving barracks, standing on yellow painted foot prints....
Oval. The prequel history of the Alien Oval females; before Kril. Why, when, and who they are as a race facing extinction. The time a hundred years before my book Kril. This Oval book tells of the time prior to the awesome OvalChanHalach Queen, Xmucane, and the reason she poisoned KrutChan into a physcotic rage. This Queen in Oval, ZacSky, is a middle ground choice between the War faction and the Peace faction Oval leaders after the former Queen has been murdered by her KrilChan, the leader of the Kril Army. Right now BalamEk, a non-Oval, is her chief advisor. ZacSky has spent her entire life in the middle, skillfully walking a tightrope. Happy to be trusted by both sides thinking she has been converted to their mission. After ZacSky's election, they begin to see the Queen may be more of a problem then they perceived. Right now, ZacSky is reorganizing her Kril Army her way. She has appointed BalamEk to set in motion a Commando unit to strike deep into Dinarchy territory. If they succeed, the Ovals will begin to take back the parts of the Empire they have lost. But, at a high cost. The enemy Dinarchy will never surrender; prolonging a five hundred year war. The Kril hero named, BhacDarg, nicknamed Chalk, is a soft-spoken loving individual for three hundred-sixty Kin-days while at home. On the Planet invasions, being a veteran to ten of them, for five Uayeb Kin-days he is ruthless and cold blooded with his Kril Bot-unit. Right now he is just saying good-by to his lover, watching the alien ceremonies, and packing to go on the first Uayeb Intergalactic planetary invasion....
Dinarchy. The sequel to the book Kril. The hundred years after BalamEk, KrutChan, Xmucane, and Jaguar have died, been banished, or disappeared from the Oval Empire. This is near the end of the Jaguar's Kravid Palatine's cease-fire; which has been a lingering sore between both Empires. The objective of the Dinarchy King, Cynan, is to regain his race's stolen diamond standard, and win the five hundred year war against the Oval Queen, SeeNata . The hero is an Ambassador-Hostage named HiroCo, a Kril traitor sent by the Ovals; kept as bait while negotiations a re proceeding to move from a cease-fire to a peace treaty. Right now our hero is facing a quandary; submit to execution by the Dinarchy, or prove to Cynan he can help recover the stolen standard....
The stages are set, the plots laid out, the characters are snarling, and I'm stirring the prejudices of all of them. We're on our way.