Long time, no post!
I keep forgetting I have an account here. Oops!
For those not following me elsewhere, the basic gist of my past several months: Managing my adorable toddler and the not-so-adorable plagues he brings home. I've been sick in one way or another for probably 75% of the past seven months or so. The other 25% of that time has been spent trying to catch up on the stuff that keeps getting shoved to the back burner every time I'm down. Add in an extended-family crisis that ate the latter half of May, and it's astonishing I've had the bandwidth to sleep, much less write, dangit.
I have been keeping in practice with small personal projects--gotta get my writing fix somehow--but getting large blocks of uninterrupted, mentally clear time to do anything serious has been a struggle. Unfortunately, that means I'm way behind my original schedule on getting out new work. I do still hope to have at least something out early next year, but of course that's barring any other bandwidth-thieving monsters.
The most likely candidate for the next release is about 60-70% done, depending on whether I keep it as one book or split it in two. This one is a bit of a departure for me: It's aimed at adult audiences (though older teens might also enjoy it), and is light SF, rather than fantasy. Will post a proper synopsis at some point, but expect wormholes, dangerous aliens, and a fair amount of angsty, unconventional romance set in near-future Seattle. Whee!
Other works in progress include a sequel to Harper, a vaguely steampunk environmental thriller, an alien-artifact conspiracy drama, and something that's kind of like Torchwood meets Deadwood in jazz-age San Francisco. Yeah, I'm not even entirely sure about that one myself. We'll see. ;)
Fingers crossed that nothing goes wrong to scrub it, I'm planning a four-day writing retreat next month. Assuming I don't take the free time to just sleep, with luck I'll get another chunk done on the next release.
Will update again when there's more to tell!
For those not following me elsewhere, the basic gist of my past several months: Managing my adorable toddler and the not-so-adorable plagues he brings home. I've been sick in one way or another for probably 75% of the past seven months or so. The other 25% of that time has been spent trying to catch up on the stuff that keeps getting shoved to the back burner every time I'm down. Add in an extended-family crisis that ate the latter half of May, and it's astonishing I've had the bandwidth to sleep, much less write, dangit.
I have been keeping in practice with small personal projects--gotta get my writing fix somehow--but getting large blocks of uninterrupted, mentally clear time to do anything serious has been a struggle. Unfortunately, that means I'm way behind my original schedule on getting out new work. I do still hope to have at least something out early next year, but of course that's barring any other bandwidth-thieving monsters.
The most likely candidate for the next release is about 60-70% done, depending on whether I keep it as one book or split it in two. This one is a bit of a departure for me: It's aimed at adult audiences (though older teens might also enjoy it), and is light SF, rather than fantasy. Will post a proper synopsis at some point, but expect wormholes, dangerous aliens, and a fair amount of angsty, unconventional romance set in near-future Seattle. Whee!
Other works in progress include a sequel to Harper, a vaguely steampunk environmental thriller, an alien-artifact conspiracy drama, and something that's kind of like Torchwood meets Deadwood in jazz-age San Francisco. Yeah, I'm not even entirely sure about that one myself. We'll see. ;)
Fingers crossed that nothing goes wrong to scrub it, I'm planning a four-day writing retreat next month. Assuming I don't take the free time to just sleep, with luck I'll get another chunk done on the next release.
Will update again when there's more to tell!
No comments have been added yet.
