Sunny & Gray

About a decade or more ago, I came up with an idea about a boy named Robbie who catches a dragonfly with a net, and when he tries to take the dragonfly out it panics and bites him. When he gets bitten, everything changes. His eyes are opened to a world that he never guessed existed. The dragonfly in his net is not a dragonfly at all, but a fairy in disguise. Humans aren't able to see through these disguises, but now Robbie can see the truth.

Robbie is enchanted and amazed by this new world, and spends all his time learning about it. He becomes friends with the fairy who bit him, bringing him into this new reality, and their adventure unfolds from there.

I posted the first chapter of this book on here all the way back in 2014, and I struggled my way through the story from there. I posted chapter two as well a few months later. Then, as was usually my problem, I couldn't keep at it. I never let it go, though. Several years later, I got back on the horse, and posted chapter three in 2017.

That was the turning point for the book and for my writing in general. It was the first time that I ever managed to start writing with any frequency. In 2017, I wrote every day for nearly four months. The majority of that time was spent on Sunny & Gray. I posted chapter four in March of that year, and I pushed onward until I finished the whole novel on, from my calculations, April 20th.

I remember that night, because I was so excited. I'd just written "the end" on my very first novel! I couldn't believe that I'd actually achieved such a feat.  I was now, officially, a novelist! I'd actually achieved something positive for once in my life! I felt like Fezzik in The Princess Bride. "Then I saw them. Four white horses, and I thought, there are four of us, if we ever find the lady...oh, hello lady!" I could just imagine Inigo Montoya smiling down at me and saying, "You did something right!"

Don't worry. I didn't let it go to my head. I stilll kept struggling. I lost my mojo with writing less than month later, and had to fight to gain it back over and over again...but something good did come from that day. I wrote a book. I wrote my very first full-length novel. 

It's been seven years since I finished it, and there have been plenty of struggles since then, but I'm finally in a position to put it before you and allow anyone who wants to read it to do so. That's right, Sunny, book one of the Sunny & Gray trilogy is available on Amazon.

I made sure to put all three formats, eBook, paperback, and hardcover, out at the same time this time. The audiobook will have to wait. My voice still hasn't come all the way back yet from when I was sick, so my audio production is falling way behind, but I'll get there. I think I'm going to try to really step it up over the next while once my voice returns to full strength.

I really love Sunny. I think it's a great book, and I hope y'all will agree. Check it out and enjoy. If you're wondering whether you would like it or not, read those first few chapters that I posted. That'll probably be a pretty good indicator.

Book two of the trilogy is already written, and I'll be preparing it for publication next. Book three still needs to be written, and I guess, depending on how the first two are received, I'll get that done in due time. It's one of my favorite worlds to visit, so I'll be happy to finish it off.