Chase Gamwell

Blog Posts

  • Partial Request for Infinity’s Heir!

    Back in September, I sent out some queries for Infinity’s Heir as part of a submission event. And I got a partial request from one of those submissions. It’s been with… Read more

  • New Blog Site – Game Over!

    I started Storm at Sea to write about writing, but the more I post here, the more I find that other stuff is starting to bleed into the original purpose… Read more

  • The First Page or: How I Learned to Catch (and Hold?) a Reader’s Interest

    The first page of a novel is, arguably, the most important. An author only has a few paragraphs to grab the reader’s attention, so first pages must be nothing short of perfect.… Read more

  • Busy Weeks

    I’m all over the place right now… Since my last cluster of posts, the landscape of my writing has changed quite a bit. I still plan on editing Over the… Read more

  • New YA Manuscript in the works!

    Last week, I started writing a new manuscript. It’s based off of a Flash Fiction story I wrote called “The Octavius Job” (which you can read here). The manuscript is… Read more

  • One More Time

    Yesterday, I was considering retiring Over the Edge. Today, I’ve started another edit of the manuscript. This morning, I looked at my (still massive) query list for the novel and… Read more

  • Over the Edge Lives!

    I found I still have a ton of agents to query. I’m not sure how I missed that fact, but Over the Edge lives on for a bit, at least.… Read more

  • Flash Fiction Prompt – Becoming (1000 words max)

    Note: This is kind of a strange one. I have no idea where it came from, but the prompt pulled whatever THIS thing is out of my brain. Hope you… Read more

  • Surviving the storm

    My last update was on June 23rd.  A lot has happened since then. Infinity’s Heir is the main reason I haven’t posted an update in so long, but Missing Parts… Read more

  • Flash Fiction Prompt – ‘Heat’, ‘Summer’, and ‘Yellow’ (1000 words max)

    Note: This work was submitted as part of an informal monthly competition at the writing site that I frequent. It won that month’s competition! Further, I’m already working on an… Read more