With the coming snow and looming winter I’ve buckled down on my writing and am in the final stages of my next novel. At the rate I’m going it should be off to the editor by the end of the month, hopefully sooner.

This one has been a departure from my normal style. It’s still mil-scifi, but instead of third person point of view I’m trying out first person. The change from being an omniscient viewer to that of the actual narrator has been a tough shift.

But it forced me to really bring the narrator to life. I needed his perspective, his ideas, prejudices, fears, dreams. Which made me have to flesh out the world a whole hell of a lot more than I used to!

So you, the reader, will get a really great story with a really interesting main character. Some of my story tricks, like showing the antagonist view, or even a third party, isn’t possible in this POV, so I’ve really had to rethink how I write a story.

It’s also brought forth an urge to tell more stories like this. It’s almost intoxicating to place yourself as the narrator, to walk in the path of the hero and not just be an observer. It also brings me to tell non-fiction stories such as someone like Gay Talese would. A unique view, an interesting spin, a thread of a story that gets woven into something more. Check out Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.

But for now, more fiction.

Once the current novel is done then I’ll move onto the third in the Steel Legion series, Steel Strike. Beyond that I’m not entirely sure. If the reception for the new novel goes well I’ll probably add more to that. It’s a ripe world with plenty of stories to be told.

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Thanks for reading!

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