Hello again, all!

I’m pleased to say it’s been a quiet yet fairly productive month and writing period in general, despite Outside World distractions galore and the occasional spell of lingering ennui thanks to the rights reversion on Discarded. My Civil war Alternate History short work The Path of Duty (formerly Sic Semper Tyrannis) is presently going through editing and cover design with an Upwork freelancer, and should be released sometime in April; whether that’ll be just through Kindle, or “wide” (to other ebook publishers) remains to be decided. Another short work, Chistka (set in the timeline of my earlier novella Divided Worlds: An Alternate Space Race), will be posted for Upwork contract probably next week or a little later, perhaps starting a stretch where I’ll be publishing one short story or novella after another, alternating between themes–without going slightly (or not so slightly) mad in the process, one would hope . In the meantime, if anyone out there’s hankering for a taste of other short works I’ve published, my AH anthology In Other Words is once again on sale, thru the link below!

Nor has this been the only progress, as hoped when I restarted for the year. When editing and new work began to lag in the past couple weeks, I found a much-needed boost in outlining for my “John Lawrence” Civil War Historical Fiction stories; currently I’m at six completed plots, with four more anticipated (at least), and I’ve only reached mid-1863 in the chosen period. Expecting to finish a seventh plot ahead of April 1st; work on the drafts themselves won’t start until next year, according to the present plan, but other plot crafting hasn’t been ruled out yet.

The major tee-up, however, is restarting work on Reckonings, the fourth and final book in my Cross & Flag AH series. The previous round of effort on this draft paused at somewhere near the halfway mark; with all of April through early June set aside for it this time, I expect to see it pass the finish line at long last. Editing and publishing will obviously take a lot longer, but the hope is to have both done, and the book released, before New Year’s. Part of me dreads the restart, since it means completing a series that’s been my biggest project for going on a decade–while another can’t wait to be done, for the exact same reason .

That’s all the news for March! Keep an eye on my other feeds in the meantime, and see ya next month!