Obligatory end-of-year update
This is the last day of the year, so I guess I ought to do a quick recap of the year that is about to disappear in the rearview mirror.
2023 was…fine? I turned in two books this year (SCORPIO in February and DESCENT in October), so I am back in the groove as far as creative output goes. The last time I managed to turn in two books in the same year was 2020, and that was only because I turned in CITADEL in January right when all the pandemic business started. 2021 and 2022 were the hardest years I have had, creatively speaking, but DESCENT was easy going compared to the two drafts from those years, so I am cautiously optimistic for the coming year.
2024 will see two new releases: SCORPIO is officially out tomorrow, and DESCENT will be released on July 16. (There’s already a product page up on the ‘zon if you want to pre-order the book. My publisher loves great pre-order numbers.)
The writing schedule for the next year has me writing the follow-up to SCORPIO, which will be called CORVUS. That will keep me busy for most of the first half of the year, and the second half will most likely be dedicated to Palladium Wars #5, which doesn’t have an official title yet because I haven’t thought of a sufficiently cool and fitting word that starts with “E”. And who knows? Pigs may fly, water may flow uphill, and I may finally have some breathing room in my schedule to complete one of the secret projects from my backlog of ideas.
Happy New Year! I hope you had a similarly tolerable 2023, and may 2024 turn out to be less of a raging dumpster fire than the other years in the Twenty-Twenties so far.
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Thank goodness that Amazon put Scorpio in the December freebies because somehow I had missed your books altogether. I apologize for not paying better attention. I just ripped through the Frontlines series and let me just comment that Book 8 gave me such an adrenaline rush (pure terror) that I'm suprised I ever got to sleep last night. My husband just read Book 1. We come from the army spec-ops world, so we are seriously loving this view of special operations in the future. I've never read a better description of what it's like to come back into the civilian world. 35 years later and we still hang out mostly with other vets. Thanks for all the words and the work that went into stringing them together.
