Sightseeing
Day after launch day for SIGHTSEER, the usual "off into the void" kind of vibe.
I don't have cultivated cheering sections for my work, so when it goes out, it's right into the attention-span abyss, with the hope that those few who read it will rate & review it. We'll see.
I've just finished my revisions for the next SF novel, the one I've already mentioned that comes out in August. This one might ruffle feathers (although it's likelier to fly off into the void like all the others). If I had to describe it briefly, it's a fusion of:
CHILDHOOD'S END (Clarke)
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND (Heinlein)
THE DISPOSSESSED (Le Guin)
...among other things. But the feel of the above flows into this one. Hopefully people will enjoy it.
As far as new projects go, I'm waiting before I dive into Book 4 of The Shutterclique and Book 2 of The Plastic Fantastic. Those'll likely be underway (as in me writing them) in 2026.
Near term, I'm going to do the first draft of a book that's been nagging me, one that really wants to be written, so I'm obliging it, at least for the first draft.
It'll be one of several books that're intended for traditional publishing, so I'll begin the whole rigamarole of querying, trying to find an agent, etc. I haven't done that dance since the early '00s, so I'll have to crack my knuckles and get that all rolling again.
If all goes according to plan, I'll bend up a hybrid writer -- some work in trad, some indie, with those lanes being discrete and genre-distinct.
I don't expect or even anticipate any crossover between genres, so any that occurs will be a happy coincidence. For me, for now, what matters is getting some work out there that can hope to find audience. Audience is everything.
I don't have cultivated cheering sections for my work, so when it goes out, it's right into the attention-span abyss, with the hope that those few who read it will rate & review it. We'll see.
I've just finished my revisions for the next SF novel, the one I've already mentioned that comes out in August. This one might ruffle feathers (although it's likelier to fly off into the void like all the others). If I had to describe it briefly, it's a fusion of:
CHILDHOOD'S END (Clarke)
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND (Heinlein)
THE DISPOSSESSED (Le Guin)
...among other things. But the feel of the above flows into this one. Hopefully people will enjoy it.
As far as new projects go, I'm waiting before I dive into Book 4 of The Shutterclique and Book 2 of The Plastic Fantastic. Those'll likely be underway (as in me writing them) in 2026.
Near term, I'm going to do the first draft of a book that's been nagging me, one that really wants to be written, so I'm obliging it, at least for the first draft.
It'll be one of several books that're intended for traditional publishing, so I'll begin the whole rigamarole of querying, trying to find an agent, etc. I haven't done that dance since the early '00s, so I'll have to crack my knuckles and get that all rolling again.
If all goes according to plan, I'll bend up a hybrid writer -- some work in trad, some indie, with those lanes being discrete and genre-distinct.
I don't expect or even anticipate any crossover between genres, so any that occurs will be a happy coincidence. For me, for now, what matters is getting some work out there that can hope to find audience. Audience is everything.
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