Life Finds a Way

It wouldn’t take an astute observer to notice that I intended to release my next novel in the fall of 2023. Someone once asked me why authors sometimes take so long to release their work. Now I have a better understanding of why. Life gets in the way.

I’m not going to fill this blog with excuses. True, my day job, family life, and responsibilities have made it so the time I have to focus on my writing is less than an hour each day. However, I must admit that I’m rather enjoying the editing process. It’s true. As I work through my editor’s comments, I find myself doing more research. What a joyful rabbit hole of discoveries that has been. Neil Degrass Tyson was on a talk show recently where he said about science fiction novels: ‘Get the science right, and then you can be creative on top of that,’ or something like that. That wasn’t a direct quote. But it is something similar to what I apply to my day job in organizational strategic design--get to know the rules, and then you’ll understand which rules you need to keep and which you can disrupt while you innovate. I believe all this added research is making for a richer body of work. You will be the judge of that once you read it. 

I’m roughly four-fifths of the way through the rewrites. I will send the updated manuscript back to my editor at the end of July. Then, the rigamarole of trying to get a publisher continues. It’s coming along, but slower than we’d all hope. You’ll probably not hear from me again until book one of the novel is complete.

Now, I have some editing to do. Speak again soon.