
Herman P. Hunter's
THE LORE FORGE
The Website for Herman P. Hunter, Fantasy Author
(HPH Lore Forge LLC)​
Status Update - December, 2021
Things are heating up! The Revenant and the Tomb As I type this, the manuscript has just been returned from the editor, the edits have...
Status Update - November, 2021
{Inhales deeply} Okay...so maybe the book will be out in Spring 2022. (Nervous laughter) The Revenant and the Tomb. I'm learning many...
A Change In Direction
Right now I'm sitting at a crossroads. The novella is done. It'll be published by the end of the year unless something radical happens....
Status Update - October 2021
Well, things are finally moving along. The Revenant and the Tomb The first rounds of edits were sent off, and returned back in a week - I...
How I Write - Vomitus ex Verbis
Whether you're a plotter or a pantser, studied hand or free spirt, your writing process requires pumping out a first draft. What needs to...
Status Update - September 2021
The Free Novella I'll be honest with you: it seems like it's taking forever to get this novella done. I had a sit-down with my second...
How I Write - Confessions of an Unrepentant Pantser.
I'm what they call a pantser. For those of you not in the know, in writing circles there are there are essentially two ways to write a...
The Story of Frankie Falawell, Book #1
It all started as a bad romance story ala Beren and Luthien, Aragorn and Arwen. I mean, really bad. I deleted it a long time ago. But...
So, How Much Will I Spend to Self-Publish One Book?
I've had a few questions as to why I just don't self-publish all of my books. Why would I try to go the traditionally published route?...
Status Update - July-ish / August-ish, 2021
I want to start by stating one truism as it relates to my writing. That is: I have no idea if anything I've written is good or not. If...
Status Update - Free Novella and More, July 2021
Right now, as I'm creating this blog post, I'm writing the last chapter of my free novella...and I mean it this time. By the time you...
My Writing Projects
I've hinted, in various venues, of the fact that I have several projects either complete, in progress, or shelved. The reason for this...
Status Update - The Free Novella, June 2021.
At present, I still have about two-and-a-half chapters to go. I've broken my 20,000 word minimum, and I'm thinking the final word count...