Shaun Meeks's Blog - Posts Tagged "novel-in-progress"

Well, there's bad news and then there's this. In the middle of last year, I fried my laptop out and was unable to recover my novel in progress, Shutdown. It was alright though because I had backed up the file a few days prior, so I only lost a small amount of the actual story. I put the novel on hold to finish up some project for upcoming anthologies and to finish the stories in Brother's Ilk. Today, as the edits for Brother's Ilk are finishing up, I thought it would be a great time to start working on the novel again. I plug the USB into the new laptop and found the file was lost, the whole USB somehow wiped or corrupted, so it seems it's back to square one with it. I still plan on having this out as soon as possible, late spring to early summer, so it really will be crunch time now. I will be updating my progress here, not a daily word count or anything so trite, but will update on how fast it is going, story line updates and I am even thinking about holding a little contest for one of the characters in the story to be named after a reader. In fact, I will start with that. Below will be a link to my Facebook fan page and as soon as it reaches 500 likes, I will choose a name from those people to become a character in the book.

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