elcome to the website of Shawn C. Speakman — webmaster and writer. Shawn has developed websites for New York Times bestselling authors Terry Brooks and Greg Keyes, among others.

Shawn also writes full time. The Dark Thorn, Book One of The Dark Thorn cycle, begins an urban fantasy in the tradition of Terry Brooks's Word/Void trilogy, Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. The first novel is currently being written.

To gain a glimpse of The Dark Thorn, read the Prologue (HTML | PDF)! Feel free to post your comments about Shawn's progress or any questions in his blog below.

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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Chapter 13

Chapter 13 is now finished.

This is going to be a short post because I just murdered one of my characters and I think I need to go have a drink at the restaurant next door.

The book has a total of 31 chapters, if you include the prologue, epilogue, and two interludes. Chapter 13 is in effect Chapter 15. That puts me right at the half way point. Tomorrow I will start outlining Chapter 14 to begin writing on Monday.

The word count stands as:

Prologue: 3045
Chapter 1: 4075
Chapter 2: 2973
Chapter 3: 3241
Chapter 4: 4144
Chapter 5: 4547
Chapter 6: 2793
Chapter 7: 3598
Chapter 8: 4939
Chapter 9: 4257
Interlude: 2372
Chapter 10: 3346
Chapter 11: 3185
Chapter 12: 3639
Chapter 13: 4878

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