A funny thing happened on the way to my next novel...

So, I'm writing my next novel, Refugium. It's going well and at 12k I'm feeling pretty good, then I hit a bump, not a just a bump, but a bang and it derails me.  What to do?

You'll here authors tell you that you should work through problems, write past the awkward section and it will come together, not necessarily then, but later in rewrites, editing as so on. It's a sound plan that I'd go along with, but something was niggling away at the back of my mind. I'd try something different.



So, here I am, 20 thousand words into another project, The Narrows.  It's a multi-genre novel, blending fantasy, Sf and steampunk. A quest, artificlial worlds and galactic revelations.  And it's coming along better than I'd expected.

I've not lost Refugium. It's still waiting patiently for me to return and perhaps one day I will.  For now though, The Narrows has my full attention until it's finished. Hopefully around September 2014, when I'll start work-shopping it before submitting to major publishers.

I'll post some content later, as the project gains momentum.