Beginnings
About this time in 2006, on something of a whim, I decided it was finally time to write a mystery that had been bopping around in my head for a while. Taking advantage of National Novel Writing Month and some impending underemployment, I wrote the story of David Kelter, a college student who gets wrapped up in a murder mystery when he stumbles across a corpse in his church’s office.
Two years later, that story is After the Service, a real live book with real live binding and everything–one half the current offerings of Goddard Publishing, a nascent experiment in author-driven publishing. And David Kelter, as it turns out, isn’t quite finished. This summer, I wrote a first draft of All That Death, which should be available from Goddard Publishing in Spring 2009.
And this November is, again National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo, as it is affectionately named). And it turns out that David Kelter is just about to graduate from Seattle Pacific University–and investigate another murder at the same time.
And what better time to crank up the new Goddard Publishing blog than at the beginning of a new book? I’m hoping this blog will serve as an insight into the creative process and an outlet for throughts about writing and art for myself and T. James Belich, author of Edelsha. It will also be an opportunity for sneak previews of the next two still-in-process David Kelter mysteries, and perhaps some other tales, as well. Enjoy!
