ANOTHER BOOK DONE!!!!

I just finished my 8th book today, the first day of 2008 after driving home from a New Years Party- there's a blizzard outside and I finished with a nice view of the snow covering the trees in my front yard. The book is called Bang and is another volume in the Incarnations of the Americas series.
This book is really exciting for me because it was while I wrote this book that I really started getting into comics- and seeing how certain aspects of comic universes could be adopted into the novels I'm writing (and written) in ways I've never come across anywhere in fiction. I'm now going to embark on a big project, recording all of my books as audiobooks and making some detail changes to incorporate my ideas.
If I can make good time, by June I hope to be able to offer paperbacks of all 6 books bundled together with my specially designed audiobooks which will finally take the text into consideration. My goal is to make switching from the text to the audio book on your Ipod extremely easy.
For those keeping score, the following 6 books comprise the Incarnations of the Americas series:

• Portal
• Ialtaboath
• The Clearing at the End of the Path
• The Music of Dreams
• Bang
• Exodus Enisode

Here's hoping everyone had a happy New Year and Thanks to those of you out there who've been supportive of me and my efforts thus far. Cheers.

Overhaul of www.williamhrdina.com

Whenever I finish a book I like to take a small hiatus, write a few short stories (I'm working on one about how cats and dogs are only interstellar creatures who inhabit the bodies of pets as a form of vacation and another story about a guy who discovers a group of middle-aged men that battle each other with clubs) and try to catch up on the "business" of trying to find a publisher for my writing. Since I understand the biggest difficulty in getting that first manuscript published is proving profitability- I do my best to maintain as big a profile on the web as I can manage without the use of cheating. (bots, etc.- not that I'm tech savvy enough to use them even if I had the inclination.)

In this vein, I spent the weekend overhauling my website www.williamhrdina.com a project I've been trying to get the time to accomplish for 8-9 months now. Please, go visit and take a look around. The old page was far too "busy." It was loaded with text and even I had a hard time finding things in the jumble as I went from offering just text stories, to the addition of art, then video, then audio short stories in addition to excerpts of all 6 novels without changing the format in a major way. Now every category has it's own page and I think it's much easier to use.

I still have to do a second overhaul draft on Exodus Enisode till it is in "try to find a publisher form"- so that excerpt won't bill up till April-May.

PS-
On a political note, I watched on TV this morning as the right wing noise machine again tried to hoist the old chesnut that Iraq had links to AlQueda at the exact same time they were using the administrations new "Proof" that Iran is helping the anti-occupation and civil war forces in Iraq. So see, since they didn't lie the last time, it proves they're not lying this time since they're not lying this time and therfore not lying the last time. You understand don't you?
Man, such assholes.