Slow Poke Days

Mar 30

Today is Day 13 of my new horror novel, “Never Whistle in the House”. I’m only on Chapter 2.

This is the book I dreaded. The one that starts with good intentions and then turns around and breaks my balls. This is the book I dreaded. The one that starts with good intentions and then turns around and breaks my balls. I think the problem is having to write a book in an era I never lived through. But I refused to be denied. I just pulled out my old google weapon and did a little research.

Let me show you how a lack of information can throw your book for a loop. I had intended for the antagonist, Vasile Sala, to meet his love to be, Darla Collins, while they were both attending college in 1925. Unbeknownst to me, women weren’t allowed to attend college until 1930! Once I fixed that little item, the book started to flow.

Then the outline started to change. As most of you know, I am an outliner. When I began outlining NWITH on 9/25/20, I came up with only seven chapters. After I finished Chapter 1 and started Chapter 2, the book is looking to create an additional chapter because Chapter 2 has become Chapter 3. I've seen this happen before with Frankenstina, which was supposed to be only 20 chapters and wound up being a whopping 27 chapters. Crazy right? Hey, but it happens.

So this book that was supposed to be finished tomorrow 10/11/20 and launched on 10/12/20 is not going to happen. I'm going to shoot for a Halloween launch day along with the other 10 million authors.

Back to writing!

Jerrimiah Stonecastle

Stonecastle Publications LLC

"Throwing Stones at a Glass House"

Jerrimiah Stonecastle

Born and raised in the slums of New York, he was raised by a single mom who earned her Master's in Early Childhood Development while working as a teacher's aide. She sent young Jerrimiah to the prestigious Power Memorial Academy for Boys, the Alma mater of NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He worked part-time after school to help his mom pay for his tuition.

He declined a full scholarship from Concordia University and joined the US Army and became a combat medic. He returned to New York upon his discharge where he was hired by the NYC Chief Medical Examiner’s Office as a medical stenographer.

In 1982 he joined the New York City Police Department. In 1983 he was recruited by the Organized Crime Control Bureau (OCCB) as an undercover officer in their narcotics division. He finished out his career as a detective assigned to the Bronx Homicide Task Force.

When he retired in 2002, he relocated to Florida to pursue his passion for writing. After hundreds of rejection letters and reading Amanda Hocking's story, he decided to self-publish his own works. In 2016 he formed Stonecastle Publications LLC and has published 30 books so far. He has an additional 400 fiction and nonfiction novels in draft form in his company's literary vault.

On October 31, 2018, He launched his first horror novel "FRANKENSTINA" and released the sequel "FRANKENSTINA REBORN" on Halloween 2019. There are two more books in the horology.

On March 7, 2023, he received the Literary Titan Book Award for the apocalyptic thriller "A Flash of Light".

Stonecastle Publications LLC

"Throwing Stones At a Glass House"

https://jerrimiahstonecastle.org/

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