Quick Updates
Hi, everyone
First, a very big THANK YOU to everyone who wished me a happy birthday on Tuesday. It was marginally better than the previous birthday, as Boris Johnson gave me the lockdown on my 38th birthday, but I didn’t do much. My wife and I are planning all sorts of things, for when Britain calms down a little. Right now, too much is up in the air for us to make any real long-term plans. The schools have reopened for my kids, which is a great relief after several months with nowhere to take them, but we don’t know much else about what we’ll be able to do in the coming holidays.
On the plus side, I’ve just completed the draft for Drake’s Drum (Ark) and done the first set of edits for The Face of the Enemy (SIM 23) as well as another chapter of Stuck in Magic. The next week is going to be rougher, I think, as we have a boatload of bureaucratic hassle to handle, but hopefully I can return to my normal schedule past that.
My rough plan is to write a short SIM novella – Void’s Tale – next, which will bridge the gap between The Face of the Enemy and Child of Destiny. Past that, The Zero Secret – which will see a return to (largely) Cat’s POV (I say largely because I intend to write about three-four sections from Rebecca’s POV) followed by Child of Destiny.
On a different note, I’ve been working on expanding my promotion and improving the forums. The main problem with doing this is a combination of my unwillingness to spam everyone – not everyone wants to hear everything from me – and sheer lack of time. I dislike working my way through various options and suchlike, so … anyway, Leo Champion gave me a hand and we’ve set up a very basic newsletter and an improved forum. My general idea, which I will address in a later post, is to keep the old mailing list solely for book announcements and use the newsletter for other things (audio releases, interesting stuff, etc). Please give it a try and see how it goes. I’ll put together a short story/novella as a free gift at some point.
Anyway, back to work for me.
Chris
