Update on the Sequel to AFTER EVERYONE DIED, and other things
The sequel to AFTER EVERYONE DIED has rounded third and is cruising comfortably toward home plate. Given that I set out to give these books an atypical structure and voice, it's doesn't feel like it's ending to me. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. The first draft WILL be done before the end of October, though. That's far ahead of schedule for me.
Unemployment has at least helped my writing productivity. If I didn't have all the financial worries that unemployment brings, I'd be really good at not having a job. I'm getting a ton of writing done. Unprecedented productivity in my life, really. I've been writing since second grade, writing seriously since my Junior year of high school. I've worked at newspapers, taught composition at the high school and post-secondary level, and this summer, for the first time in my 42 years, I actually feel like I'm starting to know what I'm doing.
Ideally, once the first draft is done, I'll turn my attentions to other projects for a month or so before I set to editing it. Edits can take a couple of months, sometimes as long as six, depending on life and time. I will be sending the first draft to a couple of trusted beta-readers, too. Then, when I'm happy with the edits and the beta-reader feedback has been weighed and considered, I'll beg Paige Krogwold to design the cover (she graciously did the cover for AED for me). Then, it will go to press.
Best case scenario: March, 2018. More likely, it will be April or May, though. AFTER EVERYONE DIED came out in May of 2016, so that would be more fitting.
In another two weeks, LORD BOBBINS AND THE ROMANIAN RUCKUS will debut at Teslacon on Nov. 4, I think. After that, there may be some sort of launch at Mystery to Me, and I'm trying to arrange other appearances at libraries or bookstores. The book is a steampunk adventure novel based around TeslaCon, a big steampunk convention held in Madison, Wis. every year, and the characters and world that Eric Jon Larson built for the convention. It's probably the funniest book I've written. It's hard for me to write funny. I think I've had too much grimdark influence. I enjoy reading humor (Christopher Moore, the late, great Prachett, etc...), but I find it hard to write it. This book has some good jokes and lines.
There will be a sequel to RomanianRuckus. The first draft is already complete. It will likely be titled LORD BOBBINS AND THE DOME OF LIGHT. It won't come out until TeslaCon 2018, though.
Okay, enough procrastination. I have to go finish writing a book.
Unemployment has at least helped my writing productivity. If I didn't have all the financial worries that unemployment brings, I'd be really good at not having a job. I'm getting a ton of writing done. Unprecedented productivity in my life, really. I've been writing since second grade, writing seriously since my Junior year of high school. I've worked at newspapers, taught composition at the high school and post-secondary level, and this summer, for the first time in my 42 years, I actually feel like I'm starting to know what I'm doing.
Ideally, once the first draft is done, I'll turn my attentions to other projects for a month or so before I set to editing it. Edits can take a couple of months, sometimes as long as six, depending on life and time. I will be sending the first draft to a couple of trusted beta-readers, too. Then, when I'm happy with the edits and the beta-reader feedback has been weighed and considered, I'll beg Paige Krogwold to design the cover (she graciously did the cover for AED for me). Then, it will go to press.
Best case scenario: March, 2018. More likely, it will be April or May, though. AFTER EVERYONE DIED came out in May of 2016, so that would be more fitting.
In another two weeks, LORD BOBBINS AND THE ROMANIAN RUCKUS will debut at Teslacon on Nov. 4, I think. After that, there may be some sort of launch at Mystery to Me, and I'm trying to arrange other appearances at libraries or bookstores. The book is a steampunk adventure novel based around TeslaCon, a big steampunk convention held in Madison, Wis. every year, and the characters and world that Eric Jon Larson built for the convention. It's probably the funniest book I've written. It's hard for me to write funny. I think I've had too much grimdark influence. I enjoy reading humor (Christopher Moore, the late, great Prachett, etc...), but I find it hard to write it. This book has some good jokes and lines.
There will be a sequel to RomanianRuckus. The first draft is already complete. It will likely be titled LORD BOBBINS AND THE DOME OF LIGHT. It won't come out until TeslaCon 2018, though.
Okay, enough procrastination. I have to go finish writing a book.
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Pam wrote: "Color me excited😍"Me, too! I'm glad someone besides me is.
Well, it's a Tuesday and maybe everyone but us is at work. I know my daughter doesn't check her feeds on her work email. *shrug, no telling.
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It will likely be called THE LONG AND EMPTY ROAD.
I'm very happy with how it unfolded. It will need some edits. I need to weave in the central theme a little better in some parts, but for the most part, I'm quite happy with it.