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Rick Wilber's Work in Progress #1
Here's the first post of the new Work-in-Progress reports I plan to make on Goodreads and on my Typepad blog (they're synced here).
First, I've turned in a new solicited short story, "Donny Boy," to the two fine editors of the Alternate Peace anthology for ZNB publishing. The story involves a certain multiverse-hopping baseball player turned spy who I've written about a lot, and a certain young boy who might, if things don't change, become president. Oh, and it mostly takes place in October 3, 1951, which baseball fans will recognize as the day of Bobby Thomson's famous "Shot heard 'round the world." It was a lot of fun writing about an alternate-history hinge point that makes the world a better place, even it is (sadly) just a work of fiction.
Next, I'm working with co-author Brad Aiken on a piece of futuristic baseball fiction that involves a high-tech wrist for a pitcher with what the story's title notes is an "Unfair Advantage." The story needs some tightening, we think, and then expect you'll see it one of the major magazines in the field.
Finally, I spent much of 2018 working on the novel, Alien Day: Notes from Holmanville and the word from my editor(s) at Tor is that they like it a lot, which usually means there's some more editing to be done. The novel is the sequel to Alien Morning and adds some emphasis on two characters who appear in that first novel but come to prominence in this sequel.
First, I've turned in a new solicited short story, "Donny Boy," to the two fine editors of the Alternate Peace anthology for ZNB publishing. The story involves a certain multiverse-hopping baseball player turned spy who I've written about a lot, and a certain young boy who might, if things don't change, become president. Oh, and it mostly takes place in October 3, 1951, which baseball fans will recognize as the day of Bobby Thomson's famous "Shot heard 'round the world." It was a lot of fun writing about an alternate-history hinge point that makes the world a better place, even it is (sadly) just a work of fiction.
Next, I'm working with co-author Brad Aiken on a piece of futuristic baseball fiction that involves a high-tech wrist for a pitcher with what the story's title notes is an "Unfair Advantage." The story needs some tightening, we think, and then expect you'll see it one of the major magazines in the field.
Finally, I spent much of 2018 working on the novel, Alien Day: Notes from Holmanville and the word from my editor(s) at Tor is that they like it a lot, which usually means there's some more editing to be done. The novel is the sequel to Alien Morning and adds some emphasis on two characters who appear in that first novel but come to prominence in this sequel.
