As a writer, I find myself looking forward to endings. I am beginning to see the beginning of the end of the After Everything Else series, although I may return to it eventually. My next writing project will consist of a series of ten stories. One or more may take place in the setting of the world After Everything Else, and I will be looking for opportunities to publish these stories either in journals or on websites. I am teaching a short story writing class at Missouri State this spring, and I think writing short stories at the same time will inform my teaching and also improve my writing. My next project will be writing a non-fiction history of the discovery and findings of Riverbluff Cave, the oldest ice age fossil cave in North America. I'm a paleo-nerd involved in the excavation of this cave, and I look forward to that project. That should begin this summer. Also during this time, I will be participating in dinosaur digs in North and South Dakota. I have been on one, and it inspired me to write a novel about the world of dinosaur digs and the people who inhabit it. I was shocked that most of the people looking for the oldest bones are not from universities, but are simply trying to make a living at it. There's a lot of possibility for a plot in this rich area. While I don't think this book will be suitable for YA (think No Country for Old Men, think Elmore Leonard), I do hope some of my readers from the series will carry over to the new book.