Category: The Last Archangel II

Kicking Off Angel Thursdays

Posted on by writermike in Amazon.com, eBooks, Michael D Young, The Last Archangel, The Last Archangel II
Hello everyone!

I’m off to a great start on my marathon writing year. I’d like to introduce a feature I’ll be doing on Thursdays, in which I highlight posts about “The Last Archangel”. I just finished writing the sequel and hope to get that out in the world soon one way or the other once I’m done with revisions. The number of followers has grown significantly since the initial blog tour and so I’m going to highlight things from the tour and some never-before-seen content as well.

Today, I’m just going to do an intro post with a little about my book. The publisher recently slashed the ebook price for all their ebooks in half and so it can now be yours for only $3.99. (was $9.99)

The story revolves around Xandir, who is a an angel who fell near the beginning to this world and as a punishment has been forced to work as a destroying angel throughout history. The story chronicles his quest in our time to either find redemption–a quest which determines whether he helps destroy the world or save it. You can read a great review of it here in the Deseret News:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705395271/Review:-/’The-Last-ArchAngel/’-full-of-warring-angels-and-demons.html

You can purchase the Kindle version here: http://amzn.com/B0051PKCZC
Next week, I will highlight a character interview with Xandir, so you can get to know him better. Hope the beginning of your New Year is going great! 

Prelude to NaNoWriMo

Posted on by writermike in Michael Young, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, The Last Archangel, The Last Archangel II

It’s that time again! It’s a month that I look forward to every year, where I can jointhousands of others across the globe in rapidly racking up the word count onour newest novels. For the uninitiated, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMofor short) is a challenge to write 50,000 words (or the length of a shortnovel) between November 1st and midnight on November 30th.That translates to about 1,666 words every day, which is no small feat.
I have participated for the last two years, and both years I‘won’, which means that I was able to reach 50,000 words before thedeadline.  The first year, I wrote thefirst draft of a sequel to “The Canticle Kingdom” called “The Frozen Globe”,which should still be on the horizon. For my second year, I wrote most of the anovel called “Starspire” which I finished in another 20 days to round it out atabout 80,000.  It’s my personal record at50 days from zero to novel. 
This year, I’m going to do the reverse of last year.  By the end of October, I should have about30,000 words towards the as yet unnamed sequel to “The Last Archangel”. DuringNaNoWriMo, I will write the rest of the 50,000 words to finish the first draftof the novel by the end of November.  I’mvery excited about it. 
You may ask if with such speed you see a drop inquality.  The great thing about NaNoWriMois that you are allowed and even encouraged to do extensive planningbeforehand.  Some authors are pure “discoverywriters” and just want to see where the story takes them.  Though I do this to a point, I find that withNaNoWriMo, it is “plan or perish”. If you are going to write that many words ina single month, you need to have an  ideawhere you are headed or you might find yourself 50,000 words richer, but in thewrong direction.
So, hop on board! Visit http://www.nanowrimo.org tosign up and take part.  In the comments,let me know what you are planning to write.